SIMON MORRELL

The Wrong Coloured Coat, a True Story I sat on the train home very happy with both myself and my purchase. A lone trip out from North Wales to Manchester, to the semi-famous underground market where I parted with my hard-earned money, my wage packet from my father’s factory slightly bulging with overtime, but soon to be emptied in exchange for my return ticket, a small coffee and my new pride and joy. A leather jacket, the type I had had my eye on for some months and now, th

Elephant, a short work of fiction, by Simon Morrell “When I was three years old, maybe almost four, I was fascinated by a carving my parents had on their living room wall. I knew I was this age because we had yet to leave the Merseyside area where I was born.   The carving in question was a beautiful work of art of an elephant and a calf, a full 3d wooden affair, tusks and all.   The piece didn’t make the journey to live with us in North Wales with us, some months later,

One Punch Kill, a short film with an important social message

When Jack takes his disabled brother out on a drinking spree, the consequences prove to be dreadful. Read the story in full and for free here

I’m Jack. That’s the name I go by for sure. I’m Jack, and I’m one of five siblings. The good one. The other four aren’t worth Jack s**t. Ha ha, no pun intended. I’m sober today. For now anyway, but it is only ten o’clock in the morning. Give it time. So the siblings, how about them? Who cares, but you did ask, didn’t you? Eldest one. Lawyer, don’t you know? Clever arse. As many bedrooms in his house as we are siblings. That’s five in case you weren’t paying attention.