Adam
Lock 

@dazedcharacter

Writer

~Winner of the TSS Summer Quarterly Flash Fiction Competition 2018
~Winner of The STORGY Flash Fiction Competition 2018
~3rd Place: TSS Publishing Cambridge Short Story Award 2017
~Twice shortlisted for The Bath Flash Fiction Award
~Longlisted for the 2018 Short Fiction Prize - Short Fiction Journal

Welcome.
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Read my competition winning story: 'Cubism,' on The Short Story website.
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Or click on the quick links below for other stories.

Stories 2018

Brave Like Clark Kent In Superman 2

Stowaway

A Teepee of Toast

Breaking Spines

Hate is a Four Letter Word

All The Time Heartbeats

The Fear of Being Alone

There's Still Time to Buy a New Dress

Sideways Winky-face

'A' is For Beth

Lying Can Be Tough Too

Widowing

Bruised Vanilla

The Last Man To Die

Knight Fork. Winner of The STORGY Flash Fiction Competition 2018

The Readiness to Hunt Lions (Issue 10 - Page 48)

The Dog Walkers

The Engine of a Black Hole

The Flea

Songs With Fade-Outs Give People The Wrong Idea

All The Black Dots, All The Universes

Beneath Sakura

The Geometry Of Triangles. (Print Publication: Three)

Death in the Afternoon. (Vol. 2 Issue 4)

There Are Some Things You Can't Say

Self-portrait #42 (Scroll down for story)

Lavender

Hands-On

Tattooed

Cubism. Winner of TSS Summer Quarterly Flash Competition

The Meat We Don't Eat For Love. Coming Soon.

The Balloon Artist. Coming Soon.

Birds Are Older Than We Are. Coming Soon.

Steven Spielberg Is A Genius. Coming soon.

Photography Is Like Magnetism, A Mystery To Almost Everyone. Coming Soon.

Thunder. Coming Soon.

Stories 2017

Rust is Rust, is a Petal, is Love

In The Beginning I

Step on a Crack

The Stag and the Cuckoo

We Shared the Bath Water

This will Make You Yawn

Peter the Cat Killer

I Am Chronos, The Bringer Of Time

Infinity To One

A Calculation as Old as Fire

Some Fidget in the Gut

Space and Time

Intimacy as Currency

The Shadow Play of Animal Coupling (Brutal Issue)

Men Being Animals

When We Sleep We Kill The World

The Silent Vanishing of a Star