Author: Dylan Orchard

fiction stories about war 0

Immaculate Fracture

Short Story   Dead children. Wasn’t that the final trigger? You see death, grown up death – and you become cold to it. You see suffering, brutality, cruelty, you immunise yourself to them and...

short story about different perspective 0

My Marvin

Short Story “It’s the youth of today, no respect. We used to respect our elders y’know, we looked after them. If you saw an old lady crossing the road or an old gent struggling...

flash fiction story 0

A Waiting Game

Flash Fiction   The valley was magnanimous in it’s apathy. Ancients who had sat and lived in it all their lives could look to new arrivals with the comforting communal certainty that the sparsely wooded...

Poem About Exploitation 0

Forgotten Light

Poem About Exploitation   A desperate grasp for distant lights obscures the dawn surrenders sight what was taken left un-returned what is given all unearned and the open hand becomes a balled up fist...