Please Fiction Inspired by The Smiths Author:Peter Wild The music of the Smiths and their iconic frontman Morrissey is beautiful, witty, melancholic?music that makes outsiders feel as though they are part of something. Now an eclectic collection of acclaimed, up-and-coming writers lets their love of the band, its words and music, manifest itself in literary form with smart, emotion-filled, Smiths-ins... more »pired short fiction.
In Please, edited by Peter Wild, love blooms by the cemetery gates and the death of a Miami disco dancer inspires a new TV show. Shoplifters of the world unite to tug a reluctant aardvark from a hole, while a naked birthday rendition of "Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now" is beamed across the globe. Here is fiction that melds the worlds of music and literature while celebrating the unique artistic contributions of one of the most beloved bands of the past two and a half decades.
Ask / Gina Ochsner --
This charming man / Mike Gayle --
Heaven knows I'm miserable now / Kate Pullinger --
Bigmouth strikes again / Nic Kelman --
Shoplifters of the world unite / James Flint --
Girl afraid / Rhonda Carrier --
Back to the old house / Graham Rae --
Stop me if you've heard this one before / Willy Vlautin --
I won't share you / David Gaffney --
Oscillate wildly / Alison MacLeod --
Sweet and tender hooligan / Charlie Williams --
You've got everything now / Catherine O'Flynn --
I want the one I can't have / Matt Beaumont --
Nowhere fast / Jeremy Sheldon --
There is a light that never goes out / Helen Walsh --
Rush and push and the land is ours / Peter Wild --
Jeane / James Hopkin --
The Boy with a thorn in his side / John Williams --
Some girls are bigger than others / Jenn Ashworth --