Short stories

Follow the (in no particular order) links below to various published short stories and creative non-fiction. Hope you enjoy!

* ‘The Bone Children And The Darkness’ was reprinted in the Noir Fire anthology. It is a weird, dystopian story about minotaurs, lost people, and who gets to decide whether we are villain or victim. Check it out here.

* ‘Bathymetry’ – British Fantasy Award winner – was published in Strange Horizons. It is based in Turkey, full of the sea, fraught family loyalties and the search for bravery within yourself. Also monsters. Please go and read it here, or listen to the podcast here.

* ‘Signs and Omens’ My first ever short story published, also runner up in a comp (but I’ve forgotten which one!), this journeys from the Mountains of the Moon to the Outer Hebrides, with lions and stones and bats. – The Wire’s Dream Magazine, 4th Collection. Winter 2018.

* ‘We Have Always Been Here’ About coming out within an oppressive regime, about history and permanency, and some gorgeous ruined temples. – Arcturus. Chicago Review of Books, 2018. https://arcturus.chireviewofbooks.com/we-have-always-been-here-4c2422d4c061

* ‘This Is Not Forgiveness’ From the dusty plains of Madagascar, this story is about inherited trauma and inherited guilt, and the constancy of family. – Disturbing the Beast. Boudicca Press, 2018. https://boudiccapress.com/buy-books/

* ‘Thirst’ In an anthology raising money for climate action, this story is about motherhood and drought. And nice cows. – Nothing Is As It Was. Retreat West, 2018. https://retreatwestbooks.com/nothing-is-as-it-was/

* ‘Gold’ About goldfinches and snow and the small everyday grief of leaving your dreams behind. Runner-Up in the Writers’ and Artists’ Short Story Comp, 2019.  – The Mechanics’ Institute Review, Autumn 2019. http://mironline.org/mir16/

* ‘Strings’ – Anti-Heroin Chic, Spring 2020. This short is about psychological abuse, a teenage boy and his guitar. It was one of the first short stories I wrote and I took a long time to publish it because it felt a little too close to the bone.  http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/strings-by-lorraine-wilson

I also published four fantastical short stories in three anthologies collated and published by some very wonderful friends and writers J. A. Ironside (writes gothic ghosty things, look her up) and Matt Willis (writes military history, look him up too). The anthologies are here: https://www.jaironside.com/?page_id=448. And the stories are:

* ‘Rising Tide’ – A Seeming Glass. Celtic sea beasts, vengeance and biologists stuck on an island.

* ‘Vasilisa’ – Something Rich and Strange. A steampunk Russian fairytale. This one was such fun to write.

* ‘My Sister’s Shadow’ – Stalking Leviathan. Nogitsune, Kitsune and general Japanese yokai.

* ‘The Bone Children & The Darkness’ – Stalking Leviathan. A futuristic Crete with monsters lurking beneath the mountains.

Here’s a handful of flash fiction, including stories about refugees, grief, memory and ghosts.

* ‘Echoes in Stone’ – Stories for Homes:2. Eds Debi Alper and Sally Swingewood.

* ‘In The Dark Garden’ – Cabinet of Heed. https://cabinetofheed.com/2019/03/05/in-the-dark-garden-lorraine-wilson/

* ‘The Flower and the Bee’ – Anti-Heroin Chic. http://heroinchic.weebly.com/blog/the-flower-and-the-bee-by-lorraine-wilson

* ‘The Place Where You Fell’ – Terse Journal. https://tersejournal.com/2019/04/12/the-place-where-you-fell-by-lorraine-wilson/

* ‘Oh, You Foolish Man’ – Two. Ellipsis Zine. http://www.ellipsiszine.com/two/

* ‘The Weight Of Things’ – Ellipsis Zine. https://www.ellipsiszine.com/the-weight-of-things

* ‘Liquorice’ – A Suitcase of Crysanthemums. Great Weather For Media. https://www.greatweatherformedia.com/suitcase-of-chrysanthemums

And finally some short pieces of creative non-fiction from my previous existence as a conservation scientist:

* ‘Let The Trees Remember’ Ghosts and forests in Russia and Poland… – Forge Lit. https://forgelitmag.com/2018/05/28/let-the-trees-remember-2/

* ‘The Boy And The River’ A rather harrowing memory from Madagascar. – Issue 3, Geometry. https://www.geoliterary.com/product-page/issue-three

* ‘Belonging’ An as-yet unpublished piece, was Longlisted in the Hinterland Prize, 2019. It was about wolves and forests and the wonder of being alone in wild places. https://www.hinterlandnonfiction.com/prize