Stories
Below, you will find stories written by Irish writer Fargo DuBois.
You Can Learn Anything on YouTube
Description: I wrote this one a few years ago now, well before Oasis announced their reunion tour. Oasis feature heavily, but it’s not really about them.
Norman uses a Public Toilet
Description: a flash fiction first posted to the r/LifeOfNorman subreddit. Norman finished his open sandwich. It was the first he'd ever eaten. He was a little disappointed with the experience and considered the possibility that open sandwiches were simply a way of charging the price of a sandwich with half the bread.
Norman Makes a Stand
Description: a flash fiction first posted to the r/LifeOfNorman subreddit. Norman saw himself push his chair back from his desk. He stood face-to-face with his superior. His anger was palpable. 'Don't you dare speak to me like that,' he said through gritted teeth.
Norman's Sky
Description: a flash fiction first posted to the r/LifeOfNorman subreddit. Note: this was written well before the developers of No Man's Sky turned it all around and continued to improve the game making it the borderline masterpiece it is today. Norman was nervous. The delivery of his package was due any moment. He'd taken the…
Norman Joins the Revolution
Description: a flash fiction first posted to the r/LifeOfNorman subreddit. Norman never did have the stomach for politics. He sometimes tuned in on his television and watched the all singing, all dancing posturing bullshit of elected representatives and their foes play out in the news. It always left him fee…
Martian Colony
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The Feast of the Dead
Description: A speculative-fiction short story about the origins of Halloween, and the patience of an ostensibly sweet and lonely old man. Neighbour beware. This is an oldy that was relatively widely read at the time of first publishing. The ancient Celts celebrated Samhain on the 1st of November. It m…
Puppet Masters
Description: A speculative-fiction short story I wrote based on a reddit prompt about someone with dissociative identity disorder (multiple-personality disorder) meeting their other identities for the first time after death. This was written many, many, years ago.
The Cosplaying Queen
Description: She’s bided her time for decades, method-acting her way into the hearts of millions. She won’t have to wait much longer. First published a few years ago.
The First Heart in Space
Description: A satirical short story about the direction healthcare might be headed in a dystopian, ultra-capitalist future. Written circa August 2023. Reading time: ~7 minutes The GodPleaseFundMe campaign had been a wildly successful one. Even some celebrities had helped p…
The Last of Them
Description: Viktor and his daughter Maja live in a dilapidated block of flats in a walled city, a few years after a contagion consumed most of the world. Viktor conceals a dark secret from the ruling Orthodoxy with the noble goal of shielding his only child from the cold realities of this post-apocalyptic society. Who among us wouldn't protect their ow…
The Between
Description: A speculative-fiction short story about a father running through woods and across a countryside landscape in a race to get home before it’s too late. Scroll down for the story’s text, or alternatively watch/listen to a recorded reading of the story below by author