Joseph Beck

Looking to start writing again for enjoyment. Not the most confident but welcome any constructive feedback especially on grammar and punctuation to correct all my bad habits!

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Joseph Beck

Looking to start writing again for enjoyment. Not the most confident but welcome any constructive feedback especially on grammar and punctuation to correct all my bad habits!

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Hit Me Baby One More Time

Joseph Beck

1 min read

‘14’ the croupier said dryly. Harvey looked down at the cards in front of him, then at the stack of chips he’d committed. All of his chips to be exact. All on a pair of sevens. He glanced nervously to the player to his right. The stupid cunt had played on a 17 and pulled a 4. ‘Fucking tourist’ Harvey thought to himself. She’s here on holiday, fancied a thrill and the lucky fuck has pulled his 4 ca...

Farm 112

Joseph Beck

2 min read

‘Good morning 112. Another purposeful day where the part you play gives mankind a future.’

Heart6162 collected his tray from the stack at the start of the queue. He tapped his wristband against the sensor and held the tray obediently under the funnel, awaiting his meal to descend from the heavens. All the nutrients his body needed lay before him as a pile of grey gloop. He took an empty seat in o...

Dead End 500

Joseph Beck

2 min read

The van screeched to a halt in front of Sam, narrowly missing the arm and pointed thumb she had absentmindedly left outstretched as she had ambled along the side of the road for the past god knows how many miles. No sooner had she snatched her hand back and began counting her blessings, and with relief her untouched fingers, when the passenger door flew open and screaming music spilled out onto th...

Heavy Water

Joseph Beck

2 min read

“I never gave much time for ghost stories or fairies or the like. You got to show me something for me to believe it. And before, if you told me this story here that I’m about to tell, I’d have thought you a fool. But I don’t have long now. So here’s my confession whether you choose to believe or not.

My parents had a cabin by the lake, where we spent our summers. Small place but we were the only ...

Horror

Now

Joseph Beck

1 min read

She’d told him to meet her here. ‘Take the first right trail, the fourth left’ he’d already discarded the school tie in anticipation. He was panting like the dog his friends had told him to be. ‘Turn around’ she said as he came into the clearing. He did as he was told immediately but it was too late.

Darkness enveloped him as he waited in titillating anticipation. He giggled involuntarily...........

Fossil

Joseph Beck

2 min read

He signed the ledger and pulled the thick leather cover over, letting it thump to a close for the last time. Attendance to the museum was continuing its slow, steady decline. ‘someone else’s problem now’ he thought to himself, bitterly.

He gazed around the room. Any signs that it had been his had been cleared into the large box that now sat on the desk. Books, a few pieces of art, the collection...

Dark Art

Joseph Beck

1 min read

He stared at the row of paintings. He lamented his decision to put on this exhibit at all, let alone to show the pictures of her. He stared guiltily at the first, her smiling back at him with that coy grin that had disarmed him from the start. His gaze drew along the row as her image grew more distressed in each one until he settled on the last. Almost unrecognisable, her withered sunken face judg...