🎭 Literary Fiction · Grief · Inheritance · Return

Dramaverse

Where the writing is most formally ambitious. Estrangement, grief, suburban silence, the weight of what is inherited. These stories push hardest against the conventions of literary fiction — and occasionally break through them entirely.

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Songs We Used to Sing

Lillian returns to Edinburgh after her mother's death. A box of old photographs. A former lover fixing a kettle in her mother's kitchen. What we inherit, what we escape.

Novella · Edinburgh Medium fiction

The Portrait of Memory

A call at three in the morning. Grandparents, an inheritance, a house that holds too much. Lillian as a journalist who built her reputation on other people's stories and must now face her own.

Novella · Gothic Medium fiction

Thicker Than Water

Blood and its obligations. The particular cruelty of family that expects love without earning it.

Novella Medium fiction

View from the Glasses

The world as Lillian sees it — filtered, slightly blurred at the edges, perpetually slightly fogged. An unusual formal perspective on a familiar character.

Novella · Formal Medium fiction

Maniac

Something unravelling. The line between passion and compulsion, drawn very fine.

Novella Medium fiction

Suburban Epiphanies

Small revelations in ordinary settings. The extraordinary weight of the completely unremarkable.

Short stories Short fiction

Hunger Hymns

Appetite and devotion as the same gesture. Music as the language of wanting things you can't name.

Short story Short fiction

Brighton Trip

A day at the seaside. What people say when the setting gives them permission to say it.

Short story Short fiction

Silverburn

A story through a secondary character's eyes — the particular view from the edge of someone else's life.

Short story Short fiction

The Last Five Minutes

A life's ending, rendered in the time it actually takes. What the mind holds in the last moments it holds anything.

Wattpad Short story · Formal Short fiction

Margaret Benoit

Death from the nurse's side. The professional tenderness of people whose job is to be present when no one else can be.

Short story Short fiction