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What was the dreadful thing that threatened the fortunes of the Kingdom of Haufzeignet? How did a dinner engagement cause Lord Trivett's world to fall apart? And what was the single, fateful phrase that destroyed young Mary's life forever?
From the pen of writer James Lark comes a series of short stories about people who are almost certainly worse off than you are. Often bizarre, sometimes unsettling, occasionally downright upsetting, they can at least guarantee to provoke a response - and, in an increasingly mechanised world, you can take comfort from the fact that no AI could possibly come up with an audiobook like this.
Have a laugh at somebody else's expense, or at the very least, reassure yourself that reality is not quite as bad as this...
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- Flights of Fancy · 1 h 1 min · Saison 3 Épisode 6When he noticed that the wing of the aeroplane was falling apart, Alan Biengo was not surprised. After all, he had pretty much predicted that it was going to happen. Even so, he…
- The Call of the Void · 40 min · Saison 3 Épisode 5'How strange... I was having a most wonderful dream.' When Gillian collapses at her granddaughter's ballet performance, her son Bradley is forced to confront his fears about…
- The End of the War Against Terrorism · 21 min · Saison 3 Épisode 4Derek Smawk was an easy man to loathe. A squat figure with a pinched face, his track record prior to election had shown him entirely unsuited to the role of a public servant…
- What's Ben Most Anxious About Today? · 1 h 4 min · Saison 3 Épisode 3It's the first rule of the internet, isn't it? Be careful what you put out there: once online, it's there for everyone to see, for the rest of eternity. Yet here we all are…
- A Mole Tragedy · 28 min · Saison 3 Épisode 2This is a story about Derek, the mole who didn't like digging. He liked all kinds of other things. Digging just happened to be a thing he did not like. Which might have been…
- The Boy Who Read Books Meant For Girls · 1 h 9 min · Saison 3 Épisode 1It wasn't Timothy Jenkins' fault. If nobody explains to you that content is intended only for a teenage, female audience, a juvenile reader will assume that it is all part of the…
- Season 3 trailer · 4 min · Saison 3A glimpse of some of the delights awaiting in the hotly anticipated third season of Neurotic Literature, arriving imminently!
- The Perspex Vault · 51 min · Saison 2 Épisode 6It's a tough business, writing. All those hours, days, years even, of sweat and toil, writing and rewriting to turn out something heartfelt, original and possibly even brilliant…
- The New Member · 53 min · Saison 2 Épisode 5"You know what I reckon? They're so up against it, right, with the state of the hospitals and underfunding and so on, that they don't know who's in for what. So they do…
- Rectangles · 14 min · Saison 2 Épisode 4Folklore tells of a town where everyone was a mathematician. Each person was an expert, whether in arithmetic, algebra, geometry or topology; thanks to this expertise…
- The Ten Shameful Memories That Kill You · 42 min · Saison 2 Épisode 3Shame. Most of us experience it. A few of us are burdened with it in unusually (and, some would say, unfairly) high quantities. Whilst religious and political authorities have at…
- Let's Pretend · 17 min · Saison 2 Épisode 2It's a wonderful thing, a school. A place that allows you to learn, to be taught concepts that enable you to move beyond your experience, a place to develop skills and knowledge…
- The Deepest Cuts · 58 min · Saison 2 Épisode 1Wax on, wax off. They didn't make films in the 80s. They made movies – enchanted windows of wish-fulfilment, in which impossibly attractive characters, subtly highlighted by…
- Season 2 trailer · 4 min · Saison 2A sneak preview of what lies in store in the long-awaited second season of Neurotic Literature, dropping soon!
- Flakes · 51 min · Saison 1 Épisode 10It is surprising how much discomfort people are prepared to put up with when the cause it out of sight: surveys suggest that three in four men don't go to the doctor when…
- The Bleeding Radiator · 28 min · Saison 1 Épisode 9Had it been a continuous noise, that would not have been a problem. Lucy could have gone to sleep with a constant rumble, or a low hum, or even a regular trickle of water. But it…
- Packed With Memories · 44 min · Saison 1 Épisode 8We all have them. Those memories which resurface again and again, the petty resentments that every adult clings onto, which rankle with the same vibrancy each time we relive…
- Wallpaper · 16 min · Saison 1 Épisode 7A long time ago, it was made out of paper. Patterned paper or coloured paper. And it was put on walls. It didn't sound like anything. You saw it, but you didn't hear it. Of…
- The Woman Who Ate Her Own Children · 23 min · Saison 1 Épisode 6Alice Jenkins was not having an unusually trying day, though the litany of things she generally had to deal with might elicit more than a little sympathy. After all, apart from…
- The Locked Room · 29 min · Saison 1 Épisode 5To what lengths are fathers prepared to go in order to keep their daughters safe and pure? Some quite extreme ones, it turns out. This is a story about a humble baker (although…
