Adam
Lock 

@dazedcharacter

Writer

3rd Place: TSS Publishing Cambridge Short Story Award 2017
Shortlisted for The Bath Flash Fiction Award 2018
Longlisted for the 2018 Short Fiction Prize - Short Fiction Journal

Welcome.
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Read my latest story: 'Widowing,' in Issue 8 of The Cabinet of Heed.
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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.

Beneath Sakura. Coming Soon.

Bruised Vanilla. Coming Soon.

The Dog Walkers. Coming Soon.

The Engine of a Black Hole. Coming Soon.

The Readiness to Hunt Lions. Coming Soon.

Songs With Fade-Outs Give People The Wrong Idea. Coming Soon.

Death in the Afternoon. Coming Soon.

The Last Man To Die. 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.