2023 will see the first Coronation in 70 years ... so the night of Tuesday 11th April (also our 150th show by the way, which makes us at least 70 in literary event years) is themed on Royalty & Revolution... Continue reading

Read by Rich Keeble (third story in podcast here, at 30:25) Monday ‘Tobes, the Meedy is flashing differently. Does it mean it’s not working?’ ‘Test it.’ ‘Who’s the biggest knob head?’ ‘I would describe neither of you using that word,’... Continue reading

*UPDATE* DEADLINE FOR NEXT THEME ROYALTY & REVOLUTION NOW EXTENDED TO SUN 12 MARCH Read by Andrea Hall (first story in podcast, here) The man opposite had started trying to make eye contact. I could tell by the way his... Continue reading

Read by Caroline O'Mahoney & Oliver Yellop (final story in podcast here, at 1:23:40) Dear Miss Sullivan, Was it but yesternoon I beheld you first, gliding so elegantly through Hanover Square in that utterly bewitching taupe walking-dress with the Paris... Continue reading

Read by Katy Darby (fourth story in podcast here, at 47:25) It was that limbo week between Christmas and New Year, five years ago. It was the first limbo week I had spent alone with the kids, after their dad... Continue reading

Read by Linda Shannon (second story in podcast here, at 16:50) It’s Sean’s sister, Jackie, who tells me he’s back. She drops it casually into the conversation when I bump into her at the market. ‘Just until Monday,’ she says.... Continue reading

Read by Keleigh Wolf (fifth story in podcast here, at 1:03:37) The night is Vantablack and John Cage-silent when the Uber drops me at Zora’s. I thank the driver and rate him five stars and tip him a tenner on... Continue reading

Get all the feels This Valentine's Day we at Liars' League have a show to sweep you off your feet: six short stories, sexy & sad, frank & funny, read by our very finest actors. You'll explore the highs &... Continue reading

Helen peers at the shrivelled creature while the workmen get on. It’s an ugly little thing, its skin thin as paper, its desiccated lips fixed in a permanent snarl. She puts out a finger to touch it and finds it surprisingly smooth and soft. She runs her hand over it, caressing its ribs and spine. Stroking it is strangely calming. Continue reading

Read by Sarah Barlex (final story in podcast, click here to play) Am I nervous? Of course. Am I scared? Absolutely. This place has been my life. It’s safe. There’s space to run, and a warm bed at night. I’ve... Continue reading

Read by Paul Clarke (second story in podcast, here) Congratulations on your new HomeGirlTM Dreamhouse Construction Kit! We at HomeGirlTM believe it makes the perfect Christmas gift for your young daughter, or perhaps even son! This is the modern age,... Continue reading

Read by Keleigh Wolf (first story in podcast, here) Here’s the thing about my line of work: my telephone rings when everyone else’s stops. Times like this: late night, Christmas Eve. Everyone other than me is tucked up in bed... Continue reading

Read by Lucy Mabbitt: listen to podcast here (third story) The chanting rises to a frenzied, animal pulse, like an Army cadence call, or gorillas booming across humid jungles. “DOWN. IT! DOWN. IT!” I shudder. They’ve all downed it. And... Continue reading

Hopes! Fears! Elves! Turkeys! Skulls! Cats! Divorce! ... and all the other things that make Christmas so special. As usual, the festive season is a positive rollercoaster of emotions and our Hopes & Fears Christmas event gave one hell of... Continue reading

Read by Caroline O'Mahoney (fourth story in podcast, here) Her heart is in the middle of the dining table next to the potatoes. It is pumping away against the tabletop. No one seems to notice. The white tablecloth is beginning... Continue reading

Read by Silas Hawkins (fifth story in podcast, here) Grave robbing, I’ll confess to. Murder and battery, I will not. I’m no killer, and there is no law on the books that condemns a man to the gallows for assaulting... Continue reading

Read by Stephen Butterton (third story in podcast, here) The pirates are thirteen days out of Port Royal, having drunk themselves liquid and swived themselves black-eyed on the last merchantman’s bullion, the dawn they sight the derelict. It's the first... Continue reading

Read by Lucy Mabbitt (first story in podcast, here) The first time she saw the girl, Jen was floating on her back, gazing at the Fowey shore through the frame of her feet. The days had reached that point in... Continue reading

Read by Andrew Baguley (second story in podcast, here) How times have changed. The sine qua non of the enjoyable social occasion for many people used to be cocaine. However, now that cocaine is readily available in Asda with some... Continue reading

Read by Keleigh Wolf (final story in podcast, here) “What’s with the ghouls?” you want to know. “Why so fucking rude all of a sudden?” Oh no, Derek. Were you blanked in the corridor? Did they stop talking when you... Continue reading

Avast! We've a scurvy sackful of swashbuckling stories for you this month, to chill your blood and shiver your timbers in time for Hallowe'en. There's sea-swept ghosts, grave-robbing, meat-smuggling, heart-eating, demonic middle-management, skulls, bones, vampires, zombies and of course PIRATES! We look forward to welcoming you aboard the good ship Phoenix on Tuesday October 11th. Tickets are just £5 - full details below. (Apologies but we cannot accept pieces of eight, doubloons or bullion as payment). Continue reading

Read by Grace Cookey-Gam - podcast here (fourth story) Medusa slips into the sultry water, and the snakes sway and hiss about her head. Perhaps they move in pleasure, or revulsion, or annoyance; she’s not sure, she doesn’t understand them... Continue reading

Read by Lois Tucker - podcast here (first story) On the edge of an island just off mainland Honduras, there is a shoulder-height tripod with a phone at the end. It is a selfie stick. A woman on the shore... Continue reading

Read by Carrie Cohen - podcast here (second story) The elderly sisters Pitt went missing shortly after the loose woman, Ramona Rothchild - known adulteress before she was widowed, and doomsday-bringer to many a philanderer - vanished into the woods... Continue reading

Read by Claire Lacey - podcast here (third story) It started with only one mum. She was all sweaty and couldn’t breathe because she was swinging so hard, but she really yelled up yours gravity. Then, all our mums got... Continue reading