Somewhen Else

Fictions by Adrian Benson

Contents

  • Contents >>>
  • Angels/Hauntings/Possessions
  • Short Stories
  • Festival/Funeral/Prison Poems
  • Other Poems
  • Ill Humours
  • Monologues
  • Novel Fragments
  • Welcome!

Short Stories

The Night Man
Tainted
Mr. Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin
The Path Through the Archway
Jewellery
A Daughter and Father Examine a State of Panic
A Guardian Angel Explains Blood on Pavement
No Other Hope but You
Angel Kidnap
The Gift from History
A Change of Diet
Worst of All Possible Days Blues
Starting Over Again
Paradise Remixed
Sheepish Man in Changed Clothing
A Short Time in the Skin of the Head
Fragments from the Ghost Apocrypha #1
Clinging On
The Hydatid Myth (Expletives Included)
The Hydatid Myth (Expletives Substituted)
The Child in the Corner
Anti-Snoring Calliper
Cosmetic Synaesthesia
The Town Square (A Prose Sestina)
The Spite Gauntlet
Impasse, or Divorce, Tango-style
The Executioner's Secret Facebook
The Rider
The Colours of the Garden Outside the Cellar
Difficult People
The Foundling
Brushed Faces
Ten Questions, Three Answers
Yet Another Coming
Malaika
Weeping Pilgrims
Bread
The Sea, The Sea
The Silk Room
Hopscotch Stories
The Night Worker
Somewhen Else
The Dog Uncle
Soldier and Soldier
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Alphabetical List of Fictions

  • Above the Town
  • Accordionist's Wife (The)
  • Agricultural Rap (An)
  • Angel Kidnap
  • Annexation
  • Another Bloody Funeral Poem
  • Anti-Snoring Calliper
  • Apotropaic Proliferation
  • Armistice Day
  • Bread
  • Brushed Faces
  • Casual Obsession
  • Change of Diet (A)
  • Child in the Corner (The)
  • Christmas
  • Clinging On
  • Colours of the Garden Outside the Cellar (The)
  • Cosmetic Synaesthesia
  • Daughter and Father Examine a State of Panic (A)
  • Devoid
  • Difficult People
  • Doctor Is Dead (The)
  • Dog Uncle (The)
  • Easter
  • Empty Voices
  • Executioner's Secret Facebook (The)
  • Female Taxi Driver
  • Festival Poems
  • Fetching You
  • Fire Escape Wake
  • Foundling (The)
  • Fragments from the Ghost Apocrypha 1
  • Funeral Poems
  • Gift from History (The)
  • Glaciated
  • Greetings from the Dictionary of Tapeworm Life Style Substitution Euphemisms
  • Guardian Angel Explains Blood on Pavement (A)
  • Hat (The)
  • Heaviness
  • Her Prison Poems
  • Hirudin (a Love Poem in Thirty Four Segments)
  • Hopscotch Stories
  • Hydatid Myth (The) (Expletives-Included Version)
  • Hydatid Myth (The) (Expletives-Substituted Version)
  • Ill Humours
  • Immersion
  • Impasse or Divorce Tango-style
  • Inundation
  • Island (The)
  • Jewellery
  • Kora Kora Kora
  • Landmark/Headmark
  • Malaika
  • Memories in Red and White
  • Miraculous Mandarin (The)
  • Monologues
  • Mr. Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin
  • Mr. Worthington Attempts to Visit Champagne Elizabeth
  • Night Man (The)
  • Night Worker (The)
  • No Other Hope but You
  • Ode from a Camel
  • Old Man
  • One City (The)
  • Other Pieces
  • Packet of Seeds (The)
  • Paradise Remixed
  • Path Through the Archway (The)
  • Plague of Mermaids (The)
  • Pursuit
  • Rebirth
  • Response to Kubla Khan (A)
  • Resurrection 1
  • Resurrection 2
  • Reunion (The)
  • Rider (The)
  • Round Robin
  • Rules of Engagement
  • Sailor for Trail or Rent
  • Sailor not for Trail or Rent
  • Sheepish Man in Changed Clothing
  • Shipwreck
  • Short Stories
  • Short Time in the Skin of a Head (A)
  • Silk Room (The)
  • Soldier and Soldier (A Ghost Story)
  • Soldier's Beginning (A)
  • Soldier's Trail (A) - The First Sight of the Forest
  • Somewhen Else
  • Song of the Albino Brain-Wolf (The)
  • Spite Gauntlet (The)
  • St. Valentine's Day
  • Starting Over Again
  • Tainted
  • Tapeworm Dictionary
  • Ten Questions Three Answers
  • The Sea The Sea
  • To a Dragonfly
  • To a Fox
  • To a Grub
  • To a Rat
  • To a Slug
  • To a Snake
  • Town Square (The)
  • Twist of Night
  • Urban Kestrel
  • Weeping Pilgrims
  • Wire
  • Woman Alone (A)
  • Worst of all Possible Days Blues
  • Yet Another Coming

Other Fictions

  • Tinnitus: A Novel
  • The Verb Competition
  • Work In Progress

Other Links

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