The Addiction

I really didn’t want to post The Addiction to Disturbed Literature, definitely not without a reflection.

A Fable

I wanted to write something simple and abstract with a direct message, a fable as such. It was a way of reflecting on certain events in my life at the time. It was around 5am, when walking a six-mile journey home after a long binge-drinking session that I thought up the idea of The Moth and the Butterfly. I penned it before passing out. Enjoy.

The Moth and the Butterfly

By Jambo Stewart

Silhouettes

Silhouettes is a poem I wrote when feeling particularly nostalgic, about a year after moving country.

Inspiration

Inspiration can hit at any time and place. Many writers fall into the trap of ‘waiting for inspiration’, when in fact inspiration

The Law of Four

Four is my favourite number. I was born on the fourth, I count in fours, and when deciding how many of something to eat, I generally settle for four.

Camping with the Devil

I dug this really old story out recently. Camping with the Devil was part of my short story collection Aldershot Stories,

The South Gut

I wrote The South Gut after a short holiday to Devon, one of the only times I had ever feared for my life. There isn’t any fiction here,

Pyromania

Pyromania was written for a short story competition a long, long time ago. It received an interesting critique, but I put it to one side as a mere experimental with voice and imagery. When I reread it a few years later, I hardly recognised it, which was rather chilling.

So I’m giving Pyromania one last lease of life.

Read it here

By Jambo Stewart

The 25th Hour

The 25th Hour is the first horror story I ever wrote. I was at a writing retreat when I was asked to try my hand at horror, using a title from another story Thirteen O’clock as a prompt.