David Hayden
David Hayden was born in Ireland and lives in England. His writing has appeared in A Public Space, Zoetrope All-Story, The Dublin Review, AGNI, New York Tyrant and The Georgia Review. He is the author of three collections of short stories Darker With the Lights On (Carcanet/Transit), Unstories and Six Cities, and a novel titled All Our Love.
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Fiction | The Online Edition
How It Works
David Hayden
‘Dinner plates empty in front of me, and the present softens and melts’.
New fiction from David Hayden.
Fiction | The Online Edition
Jean Betrays Memory
David Hayden
‘Beauty was a state of being blamed’
New fiction by David Hayden.
Fiction | The Online Edition
City of Pigs
David Hayden
‘I have heard there is a city of pigs thirty miles from our city. I imagine it is only a farm. I cannot imagine a city of pigs.’
New fiction by David Hayden.
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Best Book of 1934: Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe)
David Hayden
David Hayden on why Bruno Schulz’s Cinnamon Shops (Sklepy cynamonowe) is the best book of 1934.
Fiction | The Online Edition
The Unspoken
David Hayden
Horror from David Hayden. ‘A shuddering, wordless voice rose in the distance, and another, and another; a chorus, a lament, which ended in a low grunt. There was a coda of sobbing. There was silence.’
Fiction | The Online Edition
Reading
David Hayden
‘When you die you revive in the world of the last book you were reading before your demise.’
