Steve Finbow

Fiction — Online


2007Hobart Pulp

A formally fragmented short story moving between a relationship's dissolution in Japan, a Soviet labour camp, and a surreal animal escape — layering intimacy, brutality, and dark comedy in Finbow's characteristic style.

2015Pine Hills Review

A short story structured around four scenes of spectacular social failure — a fundraising evening, two Christmas dinners, and a wedding — each moment of inadvertent cruelty rendered with deadpan precision and dark wit.

East of the Web

A short story in which a man returns to a city from his past — a spare, elliptical piece that circles memory, displacement, and the persistence of place.