Barry Lee Thompson

reading

  • Broken Rules and Other Stories

    Broken Rules is now scheduled for release on 1 September. We hope that by then conditions might have become more favourable for a new title to hit the shelves. I’ll be looking forward to it. Until then, stay safe and take good care. Happy reading and writing, as always.

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  • Roomers #66 | Winter 2019

    Winter 2019’s edition of Roomers magazine – Reading, WRiting and Roomers – is available now. My short stories ‘Ernie’ and ‘The Writer’ are included in this issue. If you’d like to read the magazine but can’t get hold of a print copy, it’s available to download, along with past issues, here. More information on the

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  • Interrupter on the wireless

    “And then lunch, and your winter desserts. Hot custard over steamed puddings. Home-baked. You never used much sugar. Bad for the teeth. And then Mummy’s comments. She always had something to say. ‘It could use a little more sugar, this dessert,’ and you’d tell her that maybe she could make dessert the next time. And

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  • Playful Arrangements | from Roomers #59

    He’s up with the birds, usually. Before them, even. Reeling at the shock of cold water splashes on pasty skin. This is always where the day starts: staring out into the sky, into the depths of dark yard silence. Waiting for light to peel over the edges. In this way, he considers the things done

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  • TONGUE | from Roomers #62

    1978, a birthday party. One of those once in a blue moon family dos where a local hall gets hired, there’s catering, a DJ. The adults end up drunk and misty. Someone overdoes it, creates a spectacle. There’s a fight. No blood’s spilled, but there’s harsh words, someone gets upset, there’s tears and the gin

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