Fiction – The Drouth

19th April 2026

Published by TheDrouth

ALL THE COPPER IN PERU by Michael Washburn

A story about contracts and commodities - all too resonant of the contemporary realities of geopolitics and the multinational corporate interests - New York prize-winning novelist and short story-writer, Michael Washburn, details the momentum of a dirty business.

28th July 2021

Published by TheDrouth

A SILLY STORY
by James Mooney

No more emojis. I am never going to become one of these writers who use emojis even if I live for a billion years...

12th July 2021

Published by TheDrouth

GRAVITY
by Barbara Melville- Jóhannesson

'Gravity ... the universal force of attraction acting between all matter’ - The entire world is pulling on us. How does it feel to be in a world of chronic illness?

30th March 2020

Published by TheDrouth

ZigZag by Katalin Szavai

‘It’s the way they give birth these days, that’s the problem,’ the older bear said. Morrgh didn’t argue: it was a supermarket line and it was mid-winter; the sort of time that brings out the worst in everybody

24th March 2020

Published by Johnny Rodger

EVENS
by Johnny Rodger

When I took the apple from the horse’s mouth, I thought I knew it didn’t want me to speak. -Not the horse. And not that this is speaking, or for that matter, even knowing.

14th March 2020

Published by TheDrouth

Infancy
by James Mooney

The man with the black horseshoe moustache had been allocated one of the breakfast tables that stood in a row against the glass panels. The hotel was so quiet this morning that all of its breakfasters were able to sit, as in fact they did sit, against the glass...

4th February 2013

Published by TheDrouth

The Spiritualists – An extract from THIS ROAD IS RED, by Alison Irvine

They stood in front of her mirror, Pamela and Nicola, and behind their reflections was the open window and beyond that, all of Glasgow, it seemed...

ALL THE COPPER IN PERU by Michael Washburn

ALL THE COPPER IN PERU by Michael Washburn

A SILLY STORY by James Mooney

GRAVITY by Barbara Melville- Jóhannesson

ZigZag by Katalin Szavai

EVENS by Johnny Rodger

Infancy by James Mooney

The Spiritualists – An extract from THIS ROAD IS RED, by Alison Irvine

A SILLY STORY
by James Mooney

GRAVITY
by Barbara Melville- Jóhannesson

EVENS
by Johnny Rodger

Infancy
by James Mooney