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Feb 11 2019

The Spectator: How the dating app meat market is turning us all into merchandise

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Conservative Home: OCD & Me

Dec 7 2017

Poem: Her

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Short Story: The Ride

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The Spectator: Kettner’s – the Soho establishment that changed history

Feb 26 2018

Poem: A Table of Silver

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Short Story: The Red Chair

I climbed through the hatch of the Icarus Space Rocket and strapped myself into the cockpit next to Captain Johnson. I yawned the seatbelts diagonally across my silvery-moon spacesuit, feeling Continue Reading

Posted On : 7th November 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: Flash

I’m standing at the back of a derelict-industrial-unit-come-design-studio just off the main drag in Notting Hill and my set designer Jackie P is mincing around in stone-washed jeans that he Continue Reading

Posted On : 9th April 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Brilliant Flash Fiction Magazine: Starlight

This is a short story I wrote for online magazine Brilliant Flash Fiction. I was thrilled that it was republished in their anthology Hunger, which launched in Denver, Colorado. The Continue Reading

Posted On : 31st January 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: The Unlocked Door

It was a glorious summer’s day and it seemed like all of Tuscany had come to The Luca Cathedral of San Martino to celebrate the wedding of Maria Vincenzo and Continue Reading

Posted On : 14th January 2019 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: Animal Magnetism

So I’m lying on the chiffon rug in the presidential suite of the Maynard Hotel, staring up at the shimmering chandelier dancing light across the vast universe of space surrounding Continue Reading

Posted On : 6th August 2018 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: The Rose Garden

President Jack West is sitting in his red leather chair in the oval office, reading the file marked “Confidential” on his desk. Two star spangled banners flag him either side, Continue Reading

Posted On : 11th May 2018 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: Droplets of Rain

Tiny droplets of rain are sunbathing on my bay windows, obscuring the view of the beautiful skies beyond.  Through the glass, I can see a terrace of old England, redbrick Continue Reading

Posted On : 27th February 2018 Published By : paulratner
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Short Story: The Ride

We were desperately, madly, obsessively happy; the sort of delirious happiness that rises and falls in the pit of your stomach and then makes you move the silence with a Continue Reading

Posted On : 8th December 2017 Published By : paulratner
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