David Mathews
The Dawdler
'Daddy goes slow when he takes us, but you make us go fast, Mummy.' Fast? Really? The complaint had been issued by a six-year-old...
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David Mathews
Jun 27, 20191 min
Summer reading, tears and laughter
Hot off the press, two terrific anthologies, in each of which I am delighted to have a story. Story Cities from Arachne Press (order...
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David Mathews
Jan 3, 20191 min
Seaborne Freight ferry discovered on far side of moon.
China’s pioneering Chang'e-4 lander finds lorry-carrying ship in deserted moon crater 'Ramsgate'. Finding made by UK Department of...
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David Mathews
Dec 31, 20181 min
To the tune of Lady Franklin's Lament
We were homeward bound one night on the deep Swinging in my hammock I fell asleep, I dreamed a dream and I thought it true Concerning...
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David Mathews
Nov 21, 20183 min
Queue Jumpers
I inadvertently jumped the queue at our bakery yesterday, to loud complaints. ‘Who do you think you are, a Romanian?’ and ‘Watch it, lad,...
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David Mathews
Nov 6, 20182 min
WELSH CHEMIST SHOOTS GERMAN PoWs …
… hundreds of them, in front of a door at the old distillery at Frongoch, near Bala. On 7 November my shortest of short stories tells of...
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David Mathews
Sep 14, 20181 min
Suspension
I have been suspended. The shame of it. I’ve never been suspended before, not being a footballer, nurse, GP, socially awkward school...
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David Mathews
Aug 28, 20184 min
Egregious Growth Theory: Fox-Mogg Plans Revealed
Sir Arthur* is back from the South of France. A little sea bathing, walks in the hills of Provence and some photographs and theatre in...
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David Mathews
Aug 25, 20181 min
The Xenophobes Marching Hymn
They even hum a version of it in the Home Office, so I’m told by my ever-reliable contact Blame the Germans, blame the French, Blame the...
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David Mathews
Aug 6, 20182 min
Fork Handles
‘You used to be a researcher, didn’t you, Dave?’ Sidney had come round at the end of last week to settle our bet from Christmas re the...
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David Mathews
Jul 22, 20181 min
About these short war-time stories
The 100 stories in the Imperial War Museums' series commemorating the end of the First World War are in a new form, a centena: 100 words...
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David Mathews
Jul 20, 20182 min
War-time stories, 100 years on
Interesting folk, photographers, when you can pin them down. You look at old family photos, and pick out your father’s Auntie Nellie and...
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David Mathews
Jul 15, 20182 min
Cave man Johnson?
My chum Arthur (Sir Arthur Whatnot) is mightily upset. I'll tell you in a minute what's tipped him over the edge, but being the chap he...
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David Mathews
Mar 14, 20182 min
The Whatnot Opening
Arthur phoned, Sir Arthur Whatnot, to tell me that he is thinking of retiring from psychiatry. ‘But what will you do, Arthur, apart from...
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David Mathews
Mar 13, 20181 min
Scone shocker
I warned you, didn’t I, in my scone stories, how deep the feelings ran in this vicious cream-on-first/jam-on-first argument? Now National...
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Pippa Gladhill
Feb 1, 20183 min
Hold Onto Your Giant, Yellow, Fuzzy Tennis Ball
Do you fancy being cloned? Last week – on 25th January – news broke that scientists in China have cloned two monkeys, bringing the...
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David Mathews
Jan 23, 20181 min
Lots in Space
The oceans are full of plastic. And the same in space? Well, not yet, but there's a load of rubbish up there, and one day soon we will...
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David Mathews
Jan 7, 20183 min
Pacific here we come
‘What’s happening to the world, Dave?’ I had popped round to wish my good friend Sidney a belated Happy New Year. I hadn’t seen him since...
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David Mathews
Dec 18, 20172 min
Sir Arthur's Christmas Caseload
My friend, psychiatrist Sir Arthur Whatnot, had taken rather too much Madeira last night, and was being indiscreet. (You may remember...
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David Mathews
Dec 8, 20175 min
At the end of the day, it’s all about dusk
My story, Flick'ring Shadows, is part of this year's Solstice Shorts festival. Some subjects for stories are riper than others. I haven’t...
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