We've made our list, we've checked it twice ... and here are the winning stories for our tinsel-tastic Christmas show on Tuesday December 11th, downstairs at The Albany, Great Portland Street. We've got seasonal shoplifting, sexy sourdough, kidnapped presents, one... Continue reading

Hide Go Seek MP3 Read by Math Jones Amy liked to hide. Whenever she got the chance, she would jump out on Mummy or Daddy. Amy always liked to hide in the cupboard under the stairs when she got home... Continue reading

Read by David Mildon Welcome, heroes, to the stygian plans of Morkalanazzxx! I am, as always, your Dungeon Master and guide through these ashen wastes. And what a terrible place to be on Halloween, of all nights. Evil is at... Continue reading

Another Mother MP3 Read by Miranda Harrison She wakes, gasping, sputtering sea and sand, thrashed by coughs, till the saltwater is out, only air in her lungs, at last. She breathes. Alive. Her eyes focus. A beach. No boats or... Continue reading

Rounds MP3 Read by William Teller 1am: St Thomas’ Hospital I.C.U. I’ve been in a tremendous amount of hospitals over the course of a distinguished career, and this is the first that has smelt of Vicks. I don't think that’s... Continue reading

Strawberry Creams MP3 Read by Margaret Ashley It’s a cold one tonight. Funny, isn’t it? The most sweltering of summers can lead to such chilly autumns. My Bill used to always say that if we’d a really hot June in... Continue reading

Read by Sophie Morris-Sheppard “Trix,” I repeat, eyeing the potion I’ve just mixed up from the nameless dregs of our drinks cabinet, “do you really think this is a good idea?” She rolls her eyes and waves her green nails... Continue reading

Interested in our next event? It's Naughty & Nice for Christmas on Tuesday 11th December - more info here. BEWARE! For on Hallowe'en, the dead crawl from their coffins, the witches celebrate their unholy Sabbath, and the veil 'twixt the... Continue reading

Read by Lois Tucker (For the full podcast of the night, please click here.) Become unemployed For the past three months, there have been clues you weren’t fitting in. They didn’t like it when you corrected their grammar. They didn’t... Continue reading

Read by Susan Moisan (For the full podcast of the night, please click here.) The third text buzzes at Maya’s hip as she pulls into Chieveley Services. She’s no intention of reading it, but it presses upon her anyway –... Continue reading

Read by Gloria Sanders (For the full podcast of the night, please click here) Dear Jennifer, Hello, you fabulous little bitch. It’s me, by which I mean you, writing to you, by which I mean me, from a desk in... Continue reading

Read by Sarah Gain (For the full podcast of the night, please click here) I’m not sure what possessed me the other day at the Uptown Espresso, but I think it was my baby girl. Separation is hard on her,... Continue reading

Read by Shin-Fei Chen (For the full podcast of the night, please click here) Lay it square in the daylight, Jodie, put your face right against the window so he can see you in all your puppy-fat glory. Here’s me:... Continue reading

On Tuesday August 14th, Liars' League proudly presented our annual soiree sorting the women from the girls, and telling stories from the other side of the gender divide ... (Click for Facebook event - and here for details of our next deadline and event.) From truant wives to sarky schoolgirls, pyromaniac editors to teenage hookers via tantruming mums, we showcased the best of female-focused fiction. Continue reading

The Greatest Tiddlywinks Player MP3 Read by Gloria Sanders As loud as the words on the poster were, it was his face that grabbed me: that of a plump-chinned, red-cheeked wizard with an open-tooth grin supporting a floor-brush moustache and... Continue reading

A Rearguard Action MP3 Read by Peter Doolan My secondary school was a small Christian Brothers school in a suburb of South Dublin. There were two Irish teachers there. Mr Edward Lowry was a pugnacious, portly, pustulous git of a... Continue reading

Prince Harry's Last Hurrah MP3 Read by Alex Woodhall On the morning of the wedding, I woke up in Claridge’s. Good old Claridge’s, they look after you there. Hopefully. Today, I was going to be on telly in front of... Continue reading

Literally having an existential crisis MP3 Read by Nicholas Delvalle I won’t take you back to the beginning. I don’t have the time. However, I will begin with some background – some insight into how things used to be, during... Continue reading

Schmiedeleut's Play MP3 Read by Tony Bell Schmiedeleut wrote a play, and I read it, and I copied it out for myself twelve times in a total of twenty-seven of my notebooks. Then I saw it performed on stage, and... Continue reading

A Beer in the Interval MP3 Read by Louisa Gummer It was the height of summer when the curate Gordon E. E. Garside unlocked the chancel safe of St Mark’s, Gloucestershire, and wrapped the communion silver in an anorak. He... Continue reading

On Tuesday June 12th Liars' League celebrates soaring summer temperatures (hopefully) and plummeting bar prices (2 for 1 burgers) at our RISE & FALL event - and you're invited! Join a curate fallen from grace, a Titan of tiddlywinks, a... Continue reading

Click for podcast (fourth story) Read by James Price "Right this way sir," says the impeccably dressed French sommelier leading Eric Benson, thirty-three, six months single and rapidly greying, down a dim corridor. They swiftly pass a series of red-curtained... Continue reading

Click for podcast (eighth story) Read by Claire Lacey CDs and DVDs go into the pink charity sack along with a single Blu-ray disc. Where Eagles Dare. Never watched it. Never plan to. The bag is put on the front... Continue reading

Click for podcast (fifth story) Read by Rich Keeble His training had prepared him for this. Every muscle in his body was tensed as he crouched - except his legs - because of the crouch. He performed a quick weapon... Continue reading

Click for podcast (third story) Read by Miranda Harrison I meet him down by the river like I said he would. He’s watching a mallard go by on the water, three ducklings following in its wake. At first I think... Continue reading