This is a blog for Andrey to keep track of his writing as well as other tidbits he finds noteworthy.

Who is this Andrey guy?

Andrey Pissantchev is a Bulgarian living in Leeds, UK. By day, he works as a programmer. By other times of the day, he writes. By night, he waits.

Andrey is an active member and admin of the excellent Leeds Writers and Poets writing group.

You can get in touch with him at:

andrey [dot] writes [at] protonmail [another dot] com.

Here's some stories he wrote and where they've been published:

2022

• “Mining for Beats”. Absurd comedy flash. Published in Great Ape Issue 4.

2021

• “Twenty Seven”. Rockin' dark fantasy. Published in The Dread Machine.
• “Half Larva, Will Travel”. Trans-Atlantic comedy horror. Published in Scare Street's Night Terrors #12.
• “The Impermanence of Things Ruins Her Life”. Mundane horror flash. Published in Novel Noctule's Flying Fox Flash where you can read it for free.
• “Healing Potions”. Fantasy drabble. Published in All Worlds Wayfarer Issue VIII.

2020

• “The Song of Calamity Joe” (poem). Grotesque post-apocalyptic ditty. Published in Spectral Realms No. 13.
• “Friend Templates”. Friend-based flash. Published in Idle Ink, where you can read it for free.
• “The True Name of a Stone”. Fantasy flash fiction. Published in Every Day Fiction, where you can read it for free.
• “Big in Japan”. Slipstream drabble. Published in Microfiction Monday, where you can read it for free.

2019

• “Making Faces at a Baby on the Bus”. Public transport-based dark fantasy. Published in The Weird and Whatnot: July 5, 2019, reprinted in Sirens Call eZine June 2020, where you can read it for free.
• “Power Juice!”. Reckless sci-fi flash. Published in Factor Four Magazine, Issue 5, where you can read it for free. Reprinted in Tall Tale TV.

2018

• “She Went out for Milk One Morning and Only Came back the Previous Day”. Slipstream flash fiction. Originally published in May You, the anthology for the 2018 Walter Swan Short Story Prize. You can listen to it for free at Tall Tale TV.
• “The Unnatural Call”. Toilet-based comedy horror flash. Originally published in Grotesque Magazine Vol 2 Issue 3. You can buy an issue here.
• “Stabby Knives”. Micro fiction without an edge. Originally published on Zeroflash, reprinted at Mystery Tribune, and you can also read it on this very site.

Even before that

• “Extinguisher”. Creepy pasta style horror flash. Originally published on Reddit, made into a cool animation by YouTuber Tales of Tim. You can read it for free on this very site.