J. A. Stapleton

I have 90 stories published in 16 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 29890 times and 16 of my stories have been cherry picked.
5 of my 80 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 5 votes

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 - To Live and Die.

© J. A. Stapleton 2019
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.

Never Say Die - (James Bond 007) Short Story Collection

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

Never Say Die (James Bond 007) 2 / L'Uomo Che Visse Due Volte (2 of 4)

By J. A. Stapleton on Fri, 05 Apr 2019

It was a twenty-five-minute drive from the hotel across Johannesburg.

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Never Say Die (James Bond 007) 2 / L'Uomo Che Visse Due Volte (1 of 4)

By J. A. Stapleton on Fri, 29 Mar 2019

It was a stifling day in late July (according to the radio in the staff room, one of the hottest since records began) and M, the Head of the Secret Intelligence Service, found himself cooped up in his office.

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Never Say Die (James Bond 007) 1 / Overcoming the Monster (2 of 2)

By J. A. Stapleton on Mon, 08 Oct 2018

James Bond came to his senses at around three-thirty in the morning.

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Never Say Die (James Bond 007) 1 / Overcoming the Monster (1 of 2)

By J. A. Stapleton on Mon, 08 Oct 2018

The English, as a seafaring nation, have always been a hard-drinking people.

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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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Posted on Mon, 28 May 2018

This is an good piece. It feels more like Science Fiction to me - what if violence stopped - and that novum is interestingly looked at with the unknown narrator and the second person pronoun. I would list this as Science Fiction, but if you...

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