Alan Beard's site

STORIES

Here are some links to stories I have had published on the net:

'Background Noise' has been posted on East of the Web. They also accepted another of mine:

'The Heebie-Jeebies'. Excellent site. I even have my own page.

The Flabby Man has been accepted on Wordia as part of an interactive set of flash fictions using the same seven words which can then be clicked to take you to the next story.

'Country Life'  I have posted this story from my first collection 'Taking Doreen out of the Sky' on GoodReads, a book site I am a member of and frequently visit. The story was originally published in London Magazine 35(2) 1992.

'Mustard'  after four years of trailing around the world looking for a home this large (for me - 6000 words!) story has finally come out on Sunk Island Review. I had two stories in there in the 90s when it was a print magazine, but it ceased to be until recently (March 08), and now has been revived in an online form only by the editor Michael Blackburn.

'Huddersfield versus Crewe', first published in Neonlit 1 (ed Nicholas Royle), and then in the Going the Distance anthology is also available to read on Laura Hird's website. (by the way this is by far the finest website I have ever come across, you could spend weeks going through the fine stories, reviews, pictures and even recipes).

'Hot Little Danny' is on pulp.net (another fine website).

I've had two stories accepted by Vestal Review ( a New York based magazine which hosts fiction of less than 500 words):  'She Had to Take off Her Glasses' and 'The compliments they slip you'

Another New York based webzine 'taint magazine' (sadly no longer in existence) took a short extract from one of my stories in '..Doreen..' I re-named it 'The Menstrual Season'

In Posse Review took another short piece of mine'No one visible'

I have posted the opening story, 'Saturday in the 'Sac' from '..Doreen..', on this website exclusively.

In 1999 frieze magazine commissioned me to write a story to accompany artwork from David Thorpe, which was very exciting (and financially rewarding!). The story was called 'The Lookout', and appeared in Issue 47. Unfortuantely the link doesn't show the artwork but below I have scanned one of the pictures (a collage - difficult to tell I know from this):

The Lookout also appeared in England Calling (2001) Weidenfeld & Nicolson

 

The following are not on the net:

In 2000 I had a story in Pretext Vol 2   (2000)  called 'Above The Shop'.

and in 2006 I had one called 'The Party' in Tell Tales 3 (Tell Tales publishing)

in 2007 I had three in Flashshot, and two more in 2008. Flashshot takes stories of 100 words or less.

January 2009's issue of 'The New Writer features my story 'Backing Up' which was a runner up in the New Writer 2007 competition.

March 2009 - Buffalo Carp Vol 6 has my 'flash' 'The North Room' in it. It won an 'Honorable Mention' (as Americans spell it) in their Flash competition.

June 2009 - Falling Star has accepted my flash 'The Man Who Stole Everything' for their next issue. They're a lit mag based in Los Angeles.

Oct 2009 - Tonto Books have accepted my story 'The Ditch' for a forthcoming anthology.