Other People's Flowers

This week's episode feature a selection of short pieces by Marc Nash.

Marc Nash has published five collections of Flash Fiction and his fifth novel will be published by Dead Ink Books early 2018. He has also been published by Akashic Books, Culture Matters, The Good Men project, London Literary Project Spontaneity, Hypnopomp and the Rough Guide To Rock. He also works with video makers to turn some of his flash fiction into digital storytelling in the form of kinetic typography animated stories. An excellent live performer he won the 2014 Brighton Digital festival Flash Slam. He lives and works in London for a Free Expression NGO.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week's episode features a short story by David Calladine about a young man attending the funeral for a grandfather he didn't know.

David Calladine is a former software engineer and now writer and freelance journalist. He lives and works in the Dublin area.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week's episode features a short story by Jonathan D'Arcy about a Classics teacher who gets left behind by society while trying to follow him dreams. He finds himself caught up in a web of deceit and lies that leaves him questioning many of his life choices.

Jonathan D'Arcy is an Irish writer living in the North East of England. He's been teaching for many years and is currently doing a PhD in Comparative Literature.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week's story comes from Jemma Prandial, We Don't Do Catholics Here. It's about a non-religious mission in Africa and how the volunteers there start to question their atheism when an Islamist insurgency starts to run through the country.

Jemma is a humanist and novelist living in Kenya. She has been writing under various pseudonyms for many years and prefers to be anonymous and unrecognisable when writing.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we feature a story by David Calladine, Pity Friends, about a man visiting some of his artist friends who've retired from the bustle of city life to go and live a life of art and relative poverty in Ireland.

David Calladine is a former software engineer and now writer and freelance journalist. He lives and works in the Dublin area.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast-based literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

http://www.otherpeoplesflowers.com

This week we feature a story by Robert Davies about the perils of online dating. It's a comic short story about a man who's first experience in the world of online dating goes horribly wrong.

Robert Davies is a standup comic and writer living in London. His work has been featured in Granta, Paris Lit Up and The Cadaverine. He often writes under a pseudonym.

Other People's Flowers is the podcast that showcases short stories, essays, and reportage. We're the first podcast literary journal. People hardly read journals anymore so we hope you'll listen instead.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

This week we feature a story by Dorothy Piers, Inscription. It's about someone who finds an inscription in the front of a book by W. Somerset Maugham and imagines who would throw away a book with an inscription in it and for what reason.

Dorothy is a writer and illustrator living in North London. Other than her cats, writing is her great passion.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

This episode features a story, Allemande Grave, by Daniel Richards. A nightwatchman in a factory hears some mysterious music and goes to investigate.

Daniel Richards is a writer and artist living in Manchester in the UK. His work explores the effects of urban environments on people and the ways in which our lives are twisted by increasingly surreal landscapes.

If you'd like to have your work featured on the show, please send it to [email protected]

This episode we feature a story by Ayunda Dlamini about a failed romance in Africa.

Ayunda is a novelist and writer who moved to the UK from Swaziland in 2010, and has been writing on a number of topics. His main interested include post-colonial literature and the world's changing relationship with Africa.

If you'd like to have your work featured, please send it to [email protected]