Somewhen Else

Fictions by Adrian Benson

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

The Hat
Tainted
Mr. Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin
The Path Through the Archway
Jewellery
A Guardian Angel Explains Blood on Pavement
No Other Hope but You
Angel Kidnap
The Gift from History
A Change of Diet
Paradise Remixed
Fragments from the Ghost Apocrypha #1
Sheepish Man in Changed Clothing
A Short Time in the Skin of the Head
Apotropaic Proliferation
The Plague of Mermaids
Brushed Faces
Malaika
The Silk Room
Soldier and Soldier
Bread
Wire
Old Man 
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Recent Posts

  • Hat (The)
  • Immersion
  • Mr. Scroop Visits Mrs. Sericin
  • Night Man (The)
  • Path Through the Archway (The)
  • Tainted

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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  • Jan's Writing Journal
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