Versions of the following stories first appeared in the collection Endland Stories: Or Bad Lives, Pulp Books, 1999: ‘Arse on Earth’; ‘Carmen by Bizet’; ‘Chaikin/Twins’; ‘Crash Family Robinson’; ‘Eve & Mary’; ‘James’; ‘Jonesey’; ‘Killing of Frank’; ‘Morton & Kermit’; ‘Shame of Shane’; ‘The life, movies and short times of Natalie Gorgeous’; ‘The Shell Garages History of Mud’; ‘Void House’; ‘Who would dream that truth was lies?’; ‘Wendy’s Daughter’.

‘About Lisa’ – a version of this story was first published by Piece of Paper Press, 1995. It also appeared in the collection Endland Stories: Or Bad Lives, Pulp Books, 1999.

‘German Fokker’ – a version of this story first appeared in the anthology Allnighter, Pulp Books, 1997. It also appeared in the collection Endland Stories: Or Bad Lives, Pulp Books, 1999.

‘Kelly’ – a version of this story first appeared in Entropy, volume 1, issue 2, Entropress. It also appeared in the collection Endland Stories: Or Bad Lives, Pulp Books, 1999.

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‘Anger is Just Sadness Turned Inside Out’ – first published in the anothology Cadavere Quotidiano, 2014.

‘Cellar Story’– a version of this story first appeared in Fourteen Hills: The SFSU Review, Vol. 12 No. 2, 2006.

‘#Dibber’ – previously unpublished, 2015.

‘For the Avoidance of Doubt’ – previously unpublished, 2019.

Versions of the following stories were first published online as part of Barbara Campbell’s performance and writing project 1001 nights cast (http://1001.net.au/), which ran from 2006 to 2008: ‘intentions seem good’; ‘I thought I smelled something dirty’; ‘It is murky and opaque’; ‘now not moving’; ‘wanted to get a good look’.

‘Last of the First 11’ – previously unpublished, 2019.

‘Long Fainting/Try Saving Again’ – first published in The Book of Sheffield, edited by Catherine Taylor, Comma Press, 2019.

‘Loose Promise’ – previously unpublished. A version of the story featured in performance maker Kate McIntosh’s solo work Loose Promise, 2007.

‘Maxine’ – first published in Sheffield, edited by Emma Bolland, Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019.

‘Mission of Jobbin’ – a version of this story first appeared in Lune: The Journal of Literary Misrule, Vol. 00: Disorder, 2017.

‘Taxi Driver’ – a version of this story first appeared in Britpulp! New Fast and Furious Stories from the Literary Underground, edited by Tony White, Sceptre, 1999.

‘They get you most all gone when you always alone’ – a version of this story first appeared in the collection A Good Neighbour – Stories, published on the occasion of the fifteenth Istanbul Biennial, curated by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, 2017.

‘The Ant and The Grasshopper’ – previously unpublished. A version of this story was written at the invitation of Goran Sergej Pristaš and Nikolina Pristaš of Zagreb-based performance group BADco. and became one of the texts in the group’s performance, Changes, 2007.

‘The Chapter’ – a version of this story first appeared in An Other Magazine, 2001. A subsequent version was self-published as an unlimited edition chapbook, 2015.

‘The children of the rich’ – previously unpublished, 2011.

‘The Waters Rising’ – a version of this story under the title ‘Puppet Story’, was first published in the catalogue for the Objects Do Things exhibition curated by Joanna Zielińska, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, 2016.

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