Christmas isn't over at Sherry's Shorts! Use the Listen Again link for festive stories of births old & new, non-standard Xmas lights, Solstice reflection & chestnut wrangling. Stories by @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @catherineogston.bsky.social & me & read by @churchofben.bsky.social bit.ly/4p6xc7w

My pleasure, James - always a joy to read the fantastic words @uksherka.bsky.social chooses!

@churchofben.bsky.social Ben! Thanks for reading my story so beautifully in the latest episode of @uksherka.bsky.social’s Sherry’s Shorts 🫶

A festive hour of Christmas stories & music with Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social. Listen live today at 12 noon UK time or use the Listen Again link anytime to hear fab winter tales from: @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @catherineogston.bsky.social + more! www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Sounds like a good listen while your wrapping presents, decorating trees or enjoying mince pies 🎁 🎄 🥧 Thanks for including my story, ma chérie, @uksherka.bsky.social 💝

Ho! Ho! Ho! Sherry's Shorts🎄show is here! Listen to tales of births, non-standard Xmas lights, a rowdy family meal & Winter Solstice reflection. Thanks @jamesmontgomery.bsky.social @catherineogston.bsky.social Fiona Black, Mary Spence & reader @churchofben.bsky.social for these gems bit.ly/48SeACb

Tune in to Sherry's Shorts today at 12 noon UK time on hhr.scot. 4 Uncanny tales by Scottish Highland writers, featuring local ghost stories & read by fab actors including the 5🌟 @churchofben.bsky.social Listen Again link⬇️

On Fridays there are 2 ways to listen to Sherry's Shorts--tune in to hhr.scot at 12 noon UK time to listen live or use the Listen Again link ⬇️ to playback anytime. November's Uncanny episode features terrific ghost tales & stories that haunt by a bevy of talented Scottish Highland writers.

We are very excited to reveal our guest editor & theme for our 2026 anthology! Submissions open on 1 Dec & close on 15 Feb 2026. Our microfiction comp judges will be announced next week! www.nationalflashfictionday.co.uk/index.php/an...

November episode of Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social is here! Four Uncanny stories from Highland writers: Andrew Gold, Eileen Carney Hulme, Mary Anne Spence & Phil Baarda. Gripping real-life tales of local ghosts & memories that haunt. Listen Again: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

An entire show dedicated to the short story (and every story read with great skill and care by the likes of @churchofben.bsky.social). Not only that, but broadcast for the benefit of hospital patients. @uksherka.bsky.social is doing a magnificent job. Happy first birthday Sherry's Shorts!

We're still celebrating turning *1* with 1 terrific story by Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social & read by Benjamine L Wray @churchofben.bsky.social. Find out what happens when a man realises the commune he joined on a small Scottish island isn't the tranquility he imagined. Listen Again link ⬇️.

On Fridays, there are 2 ways to listen to Sherry's Shorts: live on HHR.Scot at noon UK time. Or anytime with the Listen Again link ⬇️. This month, Sherry's Shorts turns 1! 🥳 We celebrate with 1 terrific story by @polyscribe70.bsky.social, read by @churchofben.bsky.social. Come join the party!

On Fridays, there are 2 ways to listen to Sherry's Shorts: live on HHR.Scot at noon UK time. Or anytime with the Listen Again link ⬇️. This month, Sherry's Shorts turns 1! 🥳 We celebrate with 1 terrific story by @polyscribe70.bsky.social, read by @churchofben.bsky.social. Come join the party!

A joy and an honour, Sherry - thank you. I've just listened to the show with my wife and we're stunned by the beauty of Ben's reading.

Honoured that my story, The Apparent World, beautifully read by Benjamin L Wray, is now available to hear via the magic of Sherry's Shorts, Highland Hospital radio. This is a fabulous initiative, set up by @uksherka.bsky.social, to broadcast short stories for hospitalised patients in north Scotland.

W🤩W! Sherry's Shorts turns 1 this month! 🎉To mark the event, we have 1 terrific story from Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social. In 'The Apparent World', a man joins a commune on a small Scottish island where all is not as it seems...Listen Again anytime via the link. www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

W🤩W! Sherry's Shorts turns 1 this month! 🎉To mark the event, we have 1 terrific story from Mike Fox @polyscribe70.bsky.social. In 'The Apparent World', a man joins a commune on a small Scottish island where all is not as it seems...Listen Again anytime via the link. www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Oh, this piece! Love, love, love the rhythm, the repetition & most of all that final image with its gorgeous last sentence. Well done, @livnorman.bsky.social 👏👏👏

Yay! Absolutely delighted my story, The Munlochy Clooty Well, is Runner Up in Women on Writing Q4 CNF essay contest. Congrats to fellow Top Ten listees & a big Well Done to the 3 winning writers. A supportive place to sub, next deadline soon. www.wow-womenonwriting.com/117-FE1-Q420...

I've been away but September's excellent episode of Sherry's Shorts has played on! Listen Again to cracking stories from @ruthabrandt.bsky.social, Nazifa Islam, Cynthia Rogerson & me with the link⬇️. It's all change on Friday with a new show so catch this one now. www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Don't forget--there are 2 ways to listen to Sherry's Shorts on Friday: via the Listen Anytime link ⬇️ & *live* at 12 noon UK time on hhr.scot. Catch the tense 'Mountain Sunrise' by @ruthabrandt.bsky.social & the stunning 'Stupid Lovely Confidence' by Nazifa Islam + 2 more gems by Highland writers! 😁

Gather round yer...er...phone, folks, for the September episode of Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social. Titled 'Tricky Talks' & featuring dynamite stories by @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Nazifa Islam, Cynthia Rogerson & me. Click the Listen Again link & enjoy www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Honoured to have my story 'Mountain Sunrise' included in @uksherka.bsky.social 's Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social this month.

Gather round yer...er...phone, folks, for the September episode of Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social. Titled 'Tricky Talks' & featuring dynamite stories by @ruthabrandt.bsky.social Nazifa Islam, Cynthia Rogerson & me. Click the Listen Again link & enjoy www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

It’s Cloud Appreciation day today—post a photo of the clouds in your sky on the @cloudappsoc.bsky.social Memory Cloud Atlas www.memorycloudatlas.org

Absolutely delighted to have a story in The Bare Bones Book of Humour. Goodness knows there's proper need for a book of laughs. Many thanks to @ankitrajojha.bsky.social for selecting my king and his conundrum tale...Roll on 2026! @thehooghlyreview.bsky.social

Hooray! It’s Friday! Which means there are 2 ways to listen to Sherry’s Shorts today: live at 12 noon UK time on HHR.scot or use the Listen Again anytime link below for brilliant stories from @fionajanemack.bsky.social @Lindy biller & me.

What I love about @jankaneen1.bsky.social brilliant Hostile Environment is the mix of flash I know & love like White Dwarf, Umbrella Company & the fab short story the collection is named after with 5🌟 new work like How Not to be Haunted. Hurrah Jan & @northodoxpress.bsky.social

Did you know 'Sherry's Shorts' has its own show page on Highland Hospital Radio, making it easy to Listen Again to any show you missed. Enjoy the Bank Holiday weekend catching up on all the excellent flash fiction & short stories on Sherry's Shorts!😊 www.hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho...

Ooh, this fab treat was waiting for me here in the Highlands on my return from a trip down south. That’s my Bank Holiday weekend reading sorted—‘Hostile Environments’ by the super-talent that is @jankaneen1.bsky.social @northodoxpress.bsky.social

Hooray! It’s Friday! Which means there are 2 ways to listen to Sherry’s Shorts today: live at 12 noon UK time on HHR.scot or use the Listen Again anytime link below for brilliant stories from @fionajanemack.bsky.social @Lindy biller & me.

Yippee! Delighted my flash made The Cambridge Prize shortlist. Good luck to all short-listees & well done to writing pals @quickasaflash.bsky.social & @chriscottom.bsky.social 🥳🥳🥳

As endorsed by the talented @polyscribe70.bsky.social here's the link to listen to the August episode of Sherry's Shorts! www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Highly recommended!

There's a real 'buzz' in this episode--thanks to Ian and his chainsaw team😆! Enjoy these 3 excellent tales of Outsiders by @fionajanemack.bsky.social @lindybiller.bsky.social & me on Highland Hospital Radio. Use the link to listen anytime: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Delighted to have my story The Other Half of the Sky featured on Sherry's Shorts on Inverness Hospital Radio. It's about a young Tahitian Princess who marries a Scottish merchant and finds herself the subject of unwelcome attention in her new home town (which is also mine!). 🌏

The August episode of Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social is here! Featuring @fionajanemack.bsky.social's fabulous Tahitian princess tale, @lindybiller.bsky.social's 'Good Baby' & 1 little story from me. Have a listen to these 5🌟 'Outsider' tales: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

The August episode of Sherry's Shorts on @highlandhradio.bsky.social is here! Featuring @fionajanemack.bsky.social's fabulous Tahitian princess tale, @lindybiller.bsky.social's 'Good Baby' & 1 little story from me. Have a listen to these 5🌟 'Outsider' tales: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Have you heard? The latest episode of Sherry's Shorts airs today (Friday) on @highlandhradio.bsky.social at 12 noon UK time--featuring brilliant stories by @fionajanemack.bsky.social , @lindybiller.bsky.social & me, along with music & chat. Listen live here: www.hhr.scot

Stoked to introduce my new collection, Hostile Environments from the publishing legend that is @northodoxpress.bsky.social Stuffed with dark-edged prize-winning tales from places like @bathflashaward.bsky.social @natflashfictionday.bsky.social & @molotovlitzine.bsky.social & loads of new ones too.

Another chance to catch the latest episode of Sherry's Shorts featuring excellent short stories on @highlandhradio.bsky.social 'live' at 12 noon UK time today (Friday) on hhr.scot. Or listen anytime using the link ⬇️

ICYMI...the July episode of Sherry's Shorts is out! Featuring summer stories from Highland writers Graham Bullen, Cynthia Rogerson & me, plus 2 gems from @chriscottom.bsky.social. Benjamin L. Wray & Fiona Black are the actors & plenty of summer tunes are included. Listen via the link: bit.ly/46Qsgy4

Mandy Haggith's latest book 'The Lost Elm' is receiving excellent reviews ⬇️ (check out The Guardian review as well). You can listen to extracts of it that aired on the May episode of Sherry's Shorts on Highland Hospital Radio: www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

Delighted to have stories professionally read on Sherry's Shorts at 1:52 and 10:09 mins respectively.

ICYMI...the July episode of Sherry's Shorts is out! Featuring summer stories from Highland writers Graham Bullen, Cynthia Rogerson & me, plus 2 gems from @chriscottom.bsky.social. Benjamin L. Wray & Fiona Black are the actors & plenty of summer tunes are included. Listen via the link: bit.ly/46Qsgy4

Wonderful to hear 'The Thing about Thistles' being read, Sherry. And thank you for your kind words. I'm glad the show is thriving @uksherka.bsky.social‬ #flashfiction

Thanks to @fictivedream.bsky.social who first published my story 'The Thing about Thistles' that features in the July episode of the show. Laura is a fantastic, supportive EiC--send your work her way--microfiction, flash fiction and short stories.

The July episode of Sherry's Shorts is out! Featuring nostalgic summer stories from @chriscottom.bsky.social & Highland writers Graham Bullen, Cynthia Rogerson & me—with fun-in-the-sun Beach Boys tunes too! I'd love for you to have a listen to these shimmering gems. www.mixcloud.com/invernesshr/...

This episode of Shery's Shorts is getting lots of love & a great response. Listen live at noon UK time today (Friday) to 3 top stories on hhr.scot or anytime via the show page link: www.hhr.scot/show/hhr-sho.... Big thanks to @polyscribe2 & Mary Beth Stuller.