Stories
Selected stories from Peter Darbyshire available online and in ebook form.
Author Exclusives
I’d Never Been Shot for Real Before is an exclusive story that takes readers through a post-9/11 world of sex clubs, bankruptcy cubicle farms and guns that definitely go off. This blackly comic short story will be a favourite for fans of Please, Darbyshire’s award-winning and critically acclaimed first book.
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The Fantastic
Starseed: Or, The Strange Transformation of Archimedes Death.
A super scientist in the First World War is determined to learn the truth about a mysterious superhero from the stars.
The Angel Azrael Rode Into the Town of Burnt Church on a Dead Horse.
The first in my series of Peter Darbyshire’s tales of the angel gunslinger Azrael.
The Angel Azrael Delivers Small Mercies.
“Mercy” is a loaded word when you’re an angel gunslinger.
The Angel Azrael Delivers Justice to the People of the Dust.
“Justice” is also a loaded word when you’re an angel gunslinger.
A sheepherder and a dragon come to an arrangement of sorts. Hapless knights pay the price.
Peter Darbyshire’s first (and only) Lovecraftian superhero apocalypse story. An updated version of this appears in Has the World Ended Yet?.
We Are a Rupture That Cannot Be Contained.
Ghosts erupt out of pipelines and the world ends. An updated version of this appears in Has the World Ended Yet?.
We Continue to Pray for Something to End Our Prayers.
What if the world doesn’t end, no matter how bad it gets? An updated version of this appears in Has the World Ended Yet?.
Literary
A kinky sex club. Out of work actors. Hijinks ensue. An excerpt from Darbyshire’s book Please.
An excerpt from the book Please.
A break and enter goes strangely wrong. An excerpt from Darbyshire’s novel The Warhol Gang.
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