Stories on Mark Taylor

All Seasons Sweet (in Uncertain Stories)

Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 +0000

In a world of synthesized plenty, Leo searches for a peach that will . Available in Broken Ground from Uncertain Stories.

Peaches came in a hundred engineered varieties, each insipidly perfect.

Cavity

Fri, 03 May 2024 18:59:24 +0100

A story about falling in love with your dentist.

Residual Spirits

Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:31:37 +0100

A 250-word story about being haunted by the parts of you you’ve lost.

The Double (in The Fiction Desk)

Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:16:30 +0100

After a heavy night, Jasmine finds herself duplicated. While her other self is living her life, she tries to work out what is left for her. Available in New Ghost Stories IV from The Fiction Desk.

She woke up on a sofa , as she so often did when waking was this painful. Four miles away, her other self slept soundly in her bed.

A Quick Look Back

Sun, 12 Mar 2023 14:07:49 +0000

A very short story about the fear that everyone in heaven will know your secrets.

Traditional

Tue, 27 Dec 2022 17:25:34 +0000

An imagined history of the tradition of giving socks as a Christmas present.

The Magic Passageway

Tue, 16 Jun 2020 21:14:17 +0100

A short and silly story about (not) escaping the Covid-19 lockdown.

Dan and the Dead Boy (in The Fiction Desk)

Fri, 30 May 2014 09:30:00 +0100

After receiving a donated kidney from a stranger, the narrator struggles with the feeling that part of his body is not really his. Available in the Fiction Desk anthology There Was Once a Place.

Lying in recovery after my first satisfying piss in three years, I ran my fingers over the dressing on my belly and imagined sliding them through the incision to tear out the dead boy’s kidney. I saw it flop off the bed, a bloody half-moon left behind on the sheet, and landing on the floor to be carried off by a cleaner; and my body being mine again. They say it might last ten years. A decade with it, as my blood runs through and becomes his blood.