Fiction

This blog will be dedicated to my short fiction.

Also included are Tram Stories, little writing exercises composed primarily while I'm on the tram going to work. Some are underdone or half-finished. I do not mind. I hope you do not mind.

A Pinch of Love - A Manuscript Assessment

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Clem Ieaudd

Oct 16, 20213 min read

Tram Stories: The Soap Dish

There’s now a gap in the grouting above the sink in the bathroom, the tiling surrounding it chipped and jagged. It’s where the soap dish...

Clem Ieaudd

Oct 11, 20212 min read

Tram Stories: The Plumber’s Apprentice

There was a small knock at the door. I realised that the word 'small' is a strange descriptor for the way in which a door can be knocked...

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 24, 20214 min read

Tram Stories: The Tiny Room

The room was small. She’d taken it sight unseen, and moved in right away, that very night. Small is no exaggeration. There wasn’t even...

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 20, 20211 min read

Last Words

He’d dived under the train. I saw him do it. We’d been stuck between stations for forty-five minutes while they cleaned his body off the...

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 13, 20216 min read

Seeds

Louisa was certain there was watermelon growing in her stomach. She felt it getting bigger, pushing the boundaries of her body outward...

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 6, 20216 min read

Tram Stories: Sharing Yourself

They sat across from one another, eating quietly. They both hated the sound of chewing, keeping the level of mastication at a...

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 6, 20211 min read

Tram Stories: The Bottomless System

I need to explain something to you. Can I explain something? I’ll try not to make it too technical, though I’m sure you could follow....

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 6, 20213 min read

Santa Sangre

‘We can’t stay here.’ She stood by the door that was slightly ajar, leaving a gap showing the red twilight without. She’d tried to close...

Clem Ieaudd

Sep 6, 20217 min read

Tram Stories: A Guy needs a Friend

When my friend arrived at my new apartment I was a little embarrassed by my attire. I was still unpacking boxes and moving furniture...

Clem Ieaudd

Aug 28, 20212 min read

Tram Stories: Enemy Planets

The lizard people of the lizard planet have no knowledge of the scorpion people of their own planet. But if they did know about it, you...

Clem Ieaudd

Aug 28, 20211 min read

Tram Stories: Think of the Children

When the air quality got progressively worse, the first change we noticed was in the children. They all had gravely, husky voices. The...

Clem Ieaudd

Aug 28, 20211 min read

Tram Stories: The Speed of Flight & Thought

‘I was just thinking, if we could fly fast, around 1000 miles per hour, we could follow the sun and watch it setting forever.’ ‘We’d get...

Clem Ieaudd

Aug 28, 20211 min read

Tram Stories: Supernormal

I was kicking the footy down near the lake and it came off the side of my boot and went spinning into the reeds. When I found it a duck...

Clem Ieaudd

Aug 28, 20211 min read

Tram Stories: The Appearance of Love

I called on Love once and Love came to me out of the morning fog, limping, loping, lumbering, ungainly and out of proportion, shoulders...

Clem Ieaudd

Aug 28, 20212 min read