Katy Darby

Cherry Potts

This is a selection of weird stories, science fiction, fantasy and more from the Liars' League.

Science Fiction, Fantasy and Strange Stories from Liars' League

Weird Lies

Rosamund Davies

Kam Rehal

Story Cities explore ways in which stories respond to, reflect and re-imagine the city. Explore new short fictions in multiple genres, guide book to the fictional city, all cities, any city: its markets, squares, parks, stations & ports; the streets, alleys, dead ends & the crossroads. Never identified, the city has a voice of its own.

A City Guide for the Imagination

Story Cities

A fantasy epic of the strength and limitations of love and loyalty: between friends, lovers, kin, strangers- and enemies. Nine years after the near obliteration of her clan in an ill conceived raid, Brede, a plains' nomad, is living unwillingly in the marshes. The sudden ending of a decades long drought, brings with it many changes; rumour has it that the rain was bought at the price of a King's head, and the sword needed for such a sacrifice is missing.Change comes for Brede in the arrival of Tegan, a wounded mercenary.Brede's discovery, first of the Dowry Blade and a stolen horse, and then of Tegan's history, sets in train a journey to the capital in search of a missing sister and lead to an unexpected role in the Queen's household, and a powerful lover.

The Dowry Blade

Originally published twenty years ago, the sixteen short stories in Mosaic of Air reflect and explore Lesbian life in the 1990s through myth, mystery, history, fantasy and science fiction.

Mosaic of Air

Arachne Press’ second collaboration with Liars’ League bringing the freshness, wit, imagination and passion of their authors to stories of love for romantic cynics and cynical romantics.

Short Stories from Liars' League

Lovers' Lies

Shortest Day Longest Night

Irreverent, dark, laugh out loud, London Lies is a roller coaster of a book with as many faces as the City it describes. But when all is said and done, every one of the authors is a liar... From the mean streets of Hackney to sleepy South London suburbs, from boho Bloomsbury to City wine bars, London Lies is a tour of the capital as you've never seen it before. What happens when a girl on her way to work is propositioned by a frog? When a man breaks into London Zoo to fight a hippo?

Urban Tales from Liars' League

London Lies

A Corona virus influenced anthology; stories and poems in response to the poem TYMES GOE BY TURNES by sixteenth century poet, Robert Southwell. Frustrated by working under lockdown and worried that the 2020 festival might not happen, Arachne Press decided to continue as though everything would be alright, and asked writers to submit work that was inspired by a sixteenth century poem that editor Cherry Potts has always found comforting in a crisis: Robert Southwell's Tymes Goe by Turnes. The poem observes the ebb and flow of fortune, nothing stays bad for ever, nor anything good - so get on with it while you can. This isn't exactly a response to Covid-19, but there's an echo there - in Kelly Davis's The Saddest Birdes a Season find to Singe, Katie Margaret Hall's epic train journey, New Orleans To Vancouver, and Jackie Taylor's Rewilding; but there is also concern for the environment, and relationships and lives in need of nourishment that is sometimes hard to find. As with Southwell's poem there is a fine balance between dread and hope.

Stories and Poems from Solstice Shorts Festival 2020

Tymes Goe by Turnes

Stories and poems about leaving, and being left behind; or that take an unexpected turn, going completely off piste. From authors featured at The Story Sessions, the South London live literature evening.

Departures

Twenty-four new short stories in homage to the East and South London section of the Overground Line: a story for every station from New Cross, Crystal Palace and West Croydon at the Southern extremes of the line, all the way to Highbury & Islington. From tigers in a South London suburb to a retired police inspector investigating train based thefts, from collectors of poets at Shadwell to life-changing decisions in Canonbury, by way of an art installation that defies the boundaries of a gallery -Stations takes a sideways look through the windows of the Overground train, at life as it is, or might be, lived beside the rails: quirky, humorous and sometimes horrifying.

Cherry Potts

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