Meet Ash and Han – extract from All The Women She Knows

Read an extract from Ash and Han, a story included in All The Women She Knows by Tutku Barbaros. Read More

How Can I Help?

By Dushi Rasiah

Dushi Rasiah's short story follows a supermarket checkout worker through her shift, as she finds small (and sometimes vindictive) pleasures in customer interactions and solitary moments. Read More

Seating Arrangements – from Let Me Know When You’re Home: Stories of Female Friendship

By Sara Sherwood

Read a short story by Sara Sherwood, following old friends at a dinner party. and originally published in Let Me Know When You're Home. Read More

Introducing Tutku Barbaros – author of DD’s next collection

Meet Tutku, whose triumphant story collection we’ll be publishing next summer as DD’s second one-author book, with support using public funding from Arts Council England.  Read More

Heartstrings

By Roisin Craig

A short story that explores the opportunities and dangers afforded by a community that forms itself around a shared narrative. Read More

Little Red

By Rebecca Lambert

Rebecca Lambert's 'Little Red' is her re-telling of a popular fairy-tale. For the little girl in her story, the threat has moved from outside to inside the home, and the ‘wolfish’ characteristics that were made palatable in a fairy-tale context become humanised in a frighteningly plausible scenario. Read More

The Infestation

By Rebecca Hastings

A problem with cockroaches leaves an impact on Maggie. Read More

Mantis Shrimp

By Danielle Vrublevskis

Jasmine has started seeing a new colour. Her partner has not. Read More

A Pain In The Head

By Alys Key

A plane, writer's block and an encounter with a stranger. Read More

Stone Sheep

By Abi Carter

A childhood game gets out of hand. Read More