Cherry Potts, Writer

Category: short story

  • Solstice Shorts: Longest Night, the Midwinter Wife

    The  Midwinter Wife got another outing at Longest Night. Here is the peerless Annalie Wilson reading the shorter performance version You can buy the full length print version in Latchkey Tales Clockwise – Midnight Blues

  • Refugees Welcome Anthology

    Refugees Welcome Anthology

    I’m delighted that I have TWO stories in the forthcoming Refugees Welcome anthology. These are We Apologise for the Delay… a story of what it means to be a stranger and how communities form in times of need, told through the prism of the London Underground as the site for ‘first contact’ with aliens; and…

  • LGBT History Month reading at Richmond Library

    It’s taken me a while to get round to posting this, as there’s been other things on my mind. Here I am reading at Richmond Library in February, complete with interventions from planes on flight path to Heathrow!: Arachne’s Daughters (with Alix Adams) from Mosaic of Air       A Place of Departures from…

  • Portrait of the Artist’s Model as a Young Woman at Liars’ League HK

    Portrait of the Artist’s Model as a Young Woman at Liars’ League HK

    Brad Powers and Saffron Chan reading Portrait… (rather well!) at Liars’ League Hong Kong for True & False.

  • More From Cut a Long Story

    More stories up on Cut a Long Story… Starkridge: Don’t Mess with Mountains… Glory, or Hope: two goddesses meet on a beach… Prairie Rain: a flash fiction set on a porch near the town of Normal, Illinois Déjà Vû: A radical retelling – Sleeping Beauty and Snow White seen through the prism of The Stepford…

  • Cutting a Long Story – update

    Some of the stories that were originally published in Tales Told Before Cockcrow are up on Cut a Long Story. Pleasingly quick. Buy them now!! (thank you). All Hallows: Keith’s obsessions get him into trouble The Red Dress: A daughter’s loyalty is put to the test. Tales Told Before Cockcrow: Sybil tries to get Amelia…

  • Cutting a Long Story Short

    NAWE’s new website ‘Cut a Long Story‘ is finally live, and you can or will soon be able to find several of my stories on there to buy as single story ebooks. The fastest way to find my stuff is via my profile page. I’ve only got one story up at the moment, but I…

  • The What Else in the Water read at Liars’ League Leicester

    Eleni is reluctantly accompanying her cousin Jane on a cold morning walk when they find something surprising in the river read by Sophie Talbot follow the link toLiars’League Leicester

  • What You Are Now Enjoying by Sarah Gerkensmeyer: Review

    Here is my Review of Sarah Gerkensmeyer’s Short Story collection What you are Now Enjoying, on The Short Review

  • Three Mermaids

    I have a bit of a thing about mermaids. The house is strewn with pictures and even a bit of stained glass. So recently I wrote about a mermaid in my story The Real McCoy which  has been read at three live literature events by three different actors in under a month. To celebrate here…