J. A. Stapleton

I have 137 stories published in 17 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 113793 times and 55 of my stories have been cherry picked.
6 of my 90 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 6 votes

J. A. Stapleton is the author of three crime novels. His book, film and TV reviews are available on Instagram at @j.a.stapleton

His literary influences are Ian Fleming, Lee Child, Michael Connelly, Raymond Chandler and James Ellroy.

The first book in the Detective Lacey series "THE PATROLMAN" will be published weekly on Friday with ABCTales.com.

My stories

The Wonky Heart Pebble

By J. A. Stapleton on Tue, 17 Oct 2017

It is worth saying that this short lives up to the name of a short story. It is more a flash fiction than anything else I could label it. We were tasked with writing the manifest content of our peer's selected item and letting the others come up with the latent, or interpretation and meaning. Hope you found it as weird as I did as a writer studying dreams for a short while.

The Woman at the UEA

By J. A. Stapleton on Mon, 16 Oct 2017

The whole thing was bizarre, très à la Bond . Waiting in my name were tickets to Copenhagen International.

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The Second World War: PART 6 - Andrew Macdonald - Sagan (1944)

By J. A. Stapleton on Mon, 09 Oct 2017

It is just as well that the human body retains little to no memory of exquisite pain - it is only the mind that does.

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The Second World War: PART 5 - Adelise Gèroux - Paris (1945)

By J. A. Stapleton on Sun, 24 Sep 2017

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

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The Second World War: PART 4 - Andrew MacDonald - Sagan (1943)

By J. A. Stapleton on Thu, 14 Sep 2017

The Royal Air Force Flight Lieutenant, the Scotsman Andrew MacDonald, and appointed Intelligence Chief of Stalag Luft III, left the warmth of Hut 106 and closed the door conspiratorially behind him.