J. A. Stapleton

I have 86 stories published in 15 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 19469 times and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked.
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J. A. Stapleton is an English short story writer and screenwriter. His epistolary short story titled LOYALTY: or, A Boy Born of Two Fathers (published originally on this site) was published in November 2017. A film review on Darkest Hour was featured in REBEL magazine soon after. He has recently been recognised and featured in the Albert Sloman Library for his contributions to writing as a University of Essex student.

He is currently developing his first full-length novel - Through War & Adversity.

© J. A. Stapleton 2018
I do not claim to own any of the images used nor am I making any money from this or them, each have been sourced from Wikimedia Commons. No copyright intended.

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My collections

72nd Street and the Wild West

Dream Writing

First Draft Film Reviews

From East to West

Loyalty - or A Boy Born of Two Fathers.

Nobody's Son or Another Delinquent Boy's Betrayal

Odds and Sods - Short Stories

Paint It, Red

TATORT FOUR.

The Conspiracy

The Firm

The Road to Nowhere Special - Noire Story

The Second World War

Through War & Adversity

To Live and Die

My stories

Through War & Adversity - Chapter 3 - Part II

By J. A. Stapleton on Sun, 03 Jun 2018

The man’s index finger curled gingerly around the trigger and tugged on it once.

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Through War & Adversity - Chapter 3 - Part I

By J. A. Stapleton on Sun, 03 Jun 2018

The Gestapo man took the 9mm Walther P08 out of his pocket. He screwed a silencer fitted for a Luger (the manufacturers made no difference) to the muzzle’s front end, and flicked the safety catch down, and waited for some courage, courage to kill this woman.

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Through War & Adversity - Chapter 2

By J. A. Stapleton on Sun, 27 May 2018

When Adelise Gèroux finished packing her life into a single tattered suitcase she walked out onto the third-floor balcony of her boarding house to take in the evening air.

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Through War & Adversity - Chapter 1

By J. A. Stapleton on Thu, 24 May 2018

The burly man lying face down in the sand may have well been dead.

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Jeopardy in Beta Block

By J. A. Stapleton on Wed, 25 Apr 2018

In a near-dystopian future, CID Inspector, Jeopardy Carter, stumbles on a conspiracy involving a leading construction tycoon and the privitization of council properties. If she doesn't pull the plug on her investigation, things could get worse for the residents of block beta.