Terrence Oblong

Aspiring author of short stories and one novel so far.

Right now, I have 180 stories in 10 collections on the site. My stories have been read 59222 times and 95 of my stories have been cherry picked

My Stories

There was a murder in my road yesterday

Submitted on January 24, 2012 - 22:52 | 55 reads

Okay Commuter (3)

Submitted on January 22, 2012 - 12:46 | 39 reads

Okay commuter (2)

Submitted on January 22, 2012 - 12:41 | 39 reads

How many penguins does it take to change a lightbulb?

Submitted on January 22, 2012 - 12:26 | 69 reads

There is a light that never goes out (3)

Submitted on January 21, 2012 - 14:30 | 131 reads

There is a light that never goes out (2)

Submitted on January 21, 2012 - 13:26 | 45 reads

On the beat Pete (3)

Submitted on January 21, 2012 - 11:42 | 43 reads

On the beat Pete (2)

Submitted on January 21, 2012 - 00:21 | 24 reads

Ministerial Diary: Day 5

Submitted on January 20, 2012 - 21:46 | 27 reads

Ministerial Diary: Day 4

Submitted on January 20, 2012 - 21:16 | 26 reads

Aren’t firemen lovely

Submitted on January 7, 2012 - 13:37 | 39 reads

Back to the old house

Submitted on January 5, 2012 - 22:07 | 63 reads

Precautions against tiger attack: Chapter 2

Submitted on January 3, 2012 - 19:47 | 65 reads

My tiger and me

Submitted on January 2, 2012 - 11:51 | 59 reads

Ministerial diary Day 3

Submitted on January 2, 2012 - 11:50 | 94 reads

Ministerial diary: Day 2

Submitted on January 2, 2012 - 11:43 | 82 reads

Ministerial Diary: Day 1

Submitted on January 1, 2012 - 22:30 | 100 reads

Precautions against tiger attack: Chapter 1

Submitted on January 1, 2012 - 22:19 | 148 reads

There is a light that never goes out

Submitted on January 1, 2012 - 12:40 | 65 reads

I’m not sending any Christmas cards this year

Submitted on December 24, 2011 - 16:32 | 93 reads

Miles Green’s dream

Submitted on December 18, 2011 - 17:07 | 47 reads

Little Baby Jesus

Submitted on December 18, 2011 - 15:56 | 62 reads

On the beat Pete

Submitted on December 18, 2011 - 15:51 | 89 reads

St George

Submitted on December 11, 2011 - 21:49 | 68 reads

Turd in a white wine sauce

Submitted on November 13, 2011 - 14:33 | 224 reads

Six degrees of separation (IP)

Submitted on November 12, 2011 - 19:30 | 88 reads

Escape from Stalag 42B

Submitted on October 29, 2011 - 10:48 | 131 reads

The wedding

Submitted on October 15, 2011 - 14:10 | 278 reads

Oblong alphabet

Submitted on October 14, 2011 - 18:41 | 148 reads

Freeville

Submitted on October 9, 2011 - 11:44 | 214 reads

The Census

Submitted on October 8, 2011 - 19:16 | 187 reads

The Human Rights Cat

Submitted on October 8, 2011 - 12:05 | 177 reads

Life’s little lotteries

Submitted on October 5, 2011 - 21:19 | 163 reads

The end of the civilised world

Submitted on October 5, 2011 - 20:46 | 172 reads

The freedom short story competition

Submitted on September 27, 2011 - 17:57 | 158 reads

Clocks

Submitted on September 26, 2011 - 21:18 | 102 reads

The goat happiness man

Submitted on September 13, 2011 - 21:48 | 384 reads

Reincarnation or heaven

Submitted on September 9, 2011 - 22:24 | 246 reads

Café Boris (Part 1)

Submitted on September 7, 2011 - 21:41 | 189 reads

An ABC Tale

Submitted on September 6, 2011 - 21:11 | 374 reads

The lonely sock

Submitted on August 24, 2011 - 12:15 | 285 reads

The raid on the zoo

Submitted on August 21, 2011 - 11:00 | 143 reads

The Machine of Death

Submitted on August 16, 2011 - 20:24 | 152 reads

The day I spent with my hand on Justine Plunkett’s c*nt

Submitted on August 7, 2011 - 11:21 | 327 reads

Posing Naked

Submitted on August 6, 2011 - 17:22 | 474 reads

The MMR vaccine

Submitted on August 5, 2011 - 18:42 | 172 reads

The evil Terrence Oblong

Submitted on July 26, 2011 - 21:33 | 269 reads

Someone on ABC Tales is trying to kill me

Submitted on July 17, 2011 - 19:31 | 244 reads

The cottage in winter

Submitted on June 19, 2011 - 00:45 | 156 reads

Let's start again

Submitted on June 18, 2011 - 22:14 | 219 reads

The other Terrence Oblong

Submitted on June 12, 2011 - 12:07 | 243 reads

Liberty Prison

Submitted on June 5, 2011 - 14:23 | 253 reads

In the room

Submitted on June 2, 2011 - 19:58 | 167 reads

I am the white rabbit in the moon

Submitted on May 23, 2011 - 20:04 | 204 reads

Angus Theodore Haskavar; the greatest salesman ever

Submitted on May 13, 2011 - 19:05 | 210 reads

The day the Thames froze over

Submitted on May 13, 2011 - 18:40 | 261 reads

Let's start again short story competition

Submitted on May 8, 2011 - 14:41 | 598 reads

The Lexington Avenue Job

Submitted on April 29, 2011 - 10:42 | 278 reads

I vomit every day

Submitted on April 28, 2011 - 21:31 | 659 reads

Norwegian Wood, or Free the Bee or Tortoise brand pot cleaner (theme)

Submitted on April 28, 2011 - 19:12 | 301 reads

The return of Voyager 1256

Submitted on April 19, 2011 - 15:05 | 270 reads

Out of body experience

Submitted on April 19, 2011 - 10:36 | 185 reads

The international speed writing competition

Submitted on April 17, 2011 - 20:25 | 527 reads

You is sinner

Submitted on April 15, 2011 - 22:22 | 327 reads

Precautions taken for the prevention of llama attack

Submitted on April 9, 2011 - 08:46 | 404 reads

The obsession short story competition

Submitted on April 9, 2011 - 08:18 | 568 reads

That chair

Submitted on April 2, 2011 - 17:45 | 230 reads

Jurgen Klinsmann is not dissolvable in water

Submitted on April 2, 2011 - 16:38 | 404 reads

Panic

Submitted on March 26, 2011 - 19:12 | 738 reads

Where's the goat?

Submitted on March 26, 2011 - 14:42 | 309 reads

The Money Short Story Competition

Submitted on March 22, 2011 - 21:22 | 445 reads

the new war

Submitted on March 19, 2011 - 00:27 | 317 reads

Fly on da wall

Submitted on March 17, 2011 - 21:16 | 211 reads

Okay commuter

Submitted on March 13, 2011 - 11:56 | 251 reads

Tigger

Submitted on March 13, 2011 - 11:55 | 362 reads

School trip to Auschwitz

Submitted on February 20, 2011 - 19:46 | 256 reads

According to our records

Submitted on February 19, 2011 - 12:57 | 251 reads

Cup Final

Submitted on February 19, 2011 - 11:50 | 198 reads

The Valentines Day dinner

Submitted on February 6, 2011 - 20:51 | 415 reads

Christ on a duck

Submitted on February 4, 2011 - 21:31 | 187 reads

Gap

Submitted on February 4, 2011 - 21:14 | 378 reads

F*ck

Submitted on February 4, 2011 - 21:12 | 217 reads

The ghost hunter

Submitted on January 30, 2011 - 15:56 | 319 reads

The ghost room

Submitted on January 30, 2011 - 15:54 | 333 reads

Spelunking

Submitted on January 29, 2011 - 18:03 | 490 reads

Granny and the ghost

Submitted on January 29, 2011 - 12:57 | 330 reads

Direct line to god (IP)

Submitted on January 16, 2011 - 17:38 | 600 reads

The day I met God

Submitted on January 15, 2011 - 09:26 | 276 reads

Monkey man

Submitted on January 15, 2011 - 09:24 | 207 reads

Journeys you should and shouldn't make

Submitted on January 14, 2011 - 10:01 | 216 reads

Lucky numbers

Submitted on January 13, 2011 - 13:30 | 392 reads

The Falklands War (1)

Submitted on January 13, 2011 - 13:25 | 383 reads

Hero de la resistance

Submitted on January 13, 2011 - 13:04 | 368 reads

Redundant

Submitted on January 8, 2011 - 10:15 | 244 reads

Checks

Submitted on January 8, 2011 - 10:13 | 255 reads

Numbers (the ultimate sensory experience)

Submitted on January 5, 2011 - 12:00 | 200 reads

Number 5

Submitted on January 5, 2011 - 11:56 | 229 reads

The Trojans

Submitted on January 3, 2011 - 22:23 | 242 reads

The austerity statue

Submitted on January 3, 2011 - 01:45 | 290 reads

The not elected manifesto

Submitted on January 2, 2011 - 22:46 | 332 reads

Liberty Prison

Submitted on January 2, 2011 - 18:26 | 434 reads

The monster turkey

Submitted on December 23, 2010 - 16:41 | 330 reads

Christmas presents

Submitted on December 23, 2010 - 16:36 | 223 reads

Clog against Clegg

Submitted on December 4, 2010 - 13:14 | 424 reads

Hot Metal

Submitted on December 2, 2010 - 15:52 | 287 reads

In which a time traveller shows the historical artefacts he has collected

Submitted on November 14, 2010 - 15:50 | 281 reads

Hearts and arses

Submitted on November 14, 2010 - 12:50 | 321 reads

Her daily excursion

Submitted on November 7, 2010 - 14:48 | 331 reads

Grandad's literary masterpiece

Submitted on November 6, 2010 - 13:03 | 210 reads

The books in the Window

Submitted on November 6, 2010 - 13:02 | 228 reads

Mushroom risotto

Submitted on November 6, 2010 - 13:01 | 248 reads

A night in the old well (200 words)

Submitted on November 5, 2010 - 16:11 | 243 reads

Mask

Submitted on November 4, 2010 - 15:44 | 252 reads

The importance of good signage

Submitted on November 4, 2010 - 15:43 | 315 reads

The UnSleep - Chapter 1

Submitted on November 4, 2010 - 15:42 | 355 reads

Our future (200 words)

Submitted on November 3, 2010 - 12:28 | 257 reads

Out of body experience

Submitted on October 26, 2010 - 19:34 | 400 reads

Levitation lessons

Submitted on October 23, 2010 - 10:13 | 596 reads

Rubber chicken

Submitted on September 5, 2010 - 13:06 | 550 reads

The park bench social club

Submitted on September 5, 2010 - 13:01 | 347 reads

The Mind/Body Experiment

Submitted on September 4, 2010 - 10:22 | 325 reads

Goldilocks and the three beers (IP)

Submitted on August 27, 2010 - 13:23 | 533 reads

Peter Brumby

Submitted on August 25, 2010 - 12:03 | 287 reads

Phantom Limb

Submitted on August 15, 2010 - 13:19 | 310 reads

You

Submitted on August 7, 2010 - 14:15 | 432 reads

Vicky Spong and the Ghost Museum: Chapter One - A late night visitor

Submitted on July 26, 2010 - 08:25 | 331 reads

Brian Wilson was ten years old: Chapter 1

Submitted on July 26, 2010 - 08:23 | 266 reads

Mid life crisis: Chapter 1: beginning in a giraffe's cage

Submitted on July 24, 2010 - 11:41 | 385 reads

Madness is all in the mind: Chapter 1: first day in the madhouse

Submitted on July 24, 2010 - 11:40 | 290 reads

The man who lives under the floorboards chapter 1: week 1

Submitted on July 24, 2010 - 11:38 | 464 reads

Gods

Submitted on July 18, 2010 - 12:14 | 361 reads

Seven Pence Piece

Submitted on July 17, 2010 - 13:54 | 340 reads

There's an elephant in the way

Submitted on July 17, 2010 - 13:52 | 363 reads

Farts

Submitted on June 27, 2010 - 13:17 | 599 reads

Industrial Processed Nutrition

Submitted on May 16, 2010 - 13:14 | 325 reads

Ears

Submitted on May 16, 2010 - 13:12 | 305 reads

The continuing appeal of Tombo Harrison

Submitted on May 1, 2010 - 12:42 | 732 reads

Democracity

Submitted on May 1, 2010 - 12:41 | 621 reads

Meet you at the elephant at 3.00

Submitted on February 28, 2010 - 13:55 | 376 reads

The well in the garden

Submitted on February 28, 2010 - 13:52 | 387 reads

Slight

Submitted on February 28, 2010 - 13:39 | 373 reads

This penguin can dance

Submitted on February 14, 2010 - 13:35 | 350 reads

Precautions taken for the prevention of tiger attack

Submitted on February 13, 2010 - 11:37 | 1340 reads

I don't even have a name

Submitted on February 1, 2010 - 12:13 | 412 reads

My man in the moon

Submitted on January 31, 2010 - 13:37 | 351 reads

Is it you or is it me?

Submitted on January 30, 2010 - 10:01 | 354 reads

Billie Ritchie

Submitted on January 30, 2010 - 09:59 | 636 reads

Bad News

Submitted on January 30, 2010 - 09:55 | 425 reads

Spoon

Submitted on January 29, 2010 - 18:23 | 519 reads

Wellies

Submitted on January 29, 2010 - 18:21 | 575 reads

I don't want a cherry

Submitted on January 14, 2010 - 09:19 | 431 reads

Up mountains

Submitted on December 30, 2009 - 08:45 | 417 reads

A pink toothbrush

Submitted on December 30, 2009 - 08:42 | 574 reads

Bus Stop

Submitted on December 23, 2009 - 12:42 | 539 reads

The Phone Rang

Submitted on December 16, 2009 - 19:24 | 927 reads

The Devil and Mr Alabanti's Right Foot

Submitted on December 16, 2009 - 15:25 | 386 reads

Hiccups (8) - Symptoms 12 to 14

Submitted on November 24, 2009 - 20:26 | 390 reads

Hiccups (7) - Symptoms 10 to 11

Submitted on November 24, 2009 - 20:20 | 396 reads

Hiccups (6) - Symptom 9 - entering a pact with the devil

Submitted on November 22, 2009 - 12:39 | 648 reads

Hiccups (5) - Symptoms 5 to 8

Submitted on November 22, 2009 - 12:36 | 457 reads

Hiccups (4) - Sypmtom 4 - extra time

Submitted on November 22, 2009 - 12:32 | 435 reads

Hiccups (3) - Symptoms 1 to 3

Submitted on November 21, 2009 - 22:10 | 497 reads

Hiccups (2) - cures 8 to 16

Submitted on November 21, 2009 - 22:06 | 530 reads

Hiccups (1) - The cures, 1 to 7

Submitted on November 21, 2009 - 21:42 | 891 reads

The key

Submitted on November 17, 2009 - 21:43 | 390 reads

Smells and Bells

Submitted on November 14, 2009 - 20:30 | 595 reads

All of my clothes are like vegetables

Submitted on November 12, 2009 - 20:17 | 519 reads

This is Kelly, 3.00 a.m.

Submitted on November 8, 2009 - 23:55 | 840 reads

Life’s little elephants

Submitted on November 5, 2009 - 22:35 | 470 reads

She paints me naked

Submitted on November 5, 2009 - 22:28 | 602 reads

Getting Fat

Submitted on October 30, 2009 - 20:41 | 557 reads

Getting Fat

Submitted on October 30, 2009 - 20:39 | 493 reads

Smoke

Submitted on October 30, 2009 - 20:37 | 404 reads

The Cat’s Letter

Submitted on October 29, 2009 - 23:33 | 414 reads

In which love is seen to be a cure for spontaneous combustion

Submitted on October 29, 2009 - 22:56 | 432 reads

Funeral

Submitted on October 25, 2009 - 14:36 | 519 reads

Splat

Submitted on October 25, 2009 - 14:34 | 531 reads

Wild Orchid Rage

Submitted on October 25, 2009 - 13:12 | 421 reads