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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Here's my new story about a removal job that goes wonky in a heatwave. Recounted by an eccentric odd-jobber (& Dickens fan), it features exotic fish, a sickly aristocrat, a crash, a surreal argument with a tyrannical policeman, politics & gallows humour galore. www.pikerpress.com/article/1213...

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Heatwave on the Brain by Thomas Wright : Piker Press

"...expensive tropical fish...a spectacular van crash..." Who could ask for anything more?

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

Thanks to Daphne van Domselaar, player of the match last night & one of the nicest superheroines around, who interrupted her dinner to sign my daughter’s t-shirt

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

Delighted ’The Brussels Review’ has just printed ‘Anglo-Irish’, my first-person story which explores the complex relationships between 1st-, 2nd-, and 3rd-generation Irish immigrants on a building site in 80s England. Thanks to the editors for their input. thebrusselsreview.com/admin/tbr-sp...

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"TBR Spring 26: Grief. Reminiscence. Trauma. Watermelons." By The Brussels Review

Read the latest issue with authors from around the world.

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Chuffed 'Piker Press' has published ‘England Expected’, my coming-of-age story set in 80s England, dramatising family conflict between 3 generations - an ex-army, countryman grandfather; a Thatcherite, urbanite father; & a leftish, bookish, teen-narrator son. www.pikerpress.com/article/1174...

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England Expected by Thomas Wright

Personal experience and two generations can be a chasm that's hard to cross...

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Clare @clarekayclare.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Loving the flag at recent men’s game too

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

On this day in 1899, soon after his release from prison, Oscar Wilde visited his wife's grave in Genoa. My audio-play, 'Death in Genoa', imaginatively reconstructs Wilde's day in the city & stars Simon Callow. It can be listened to for free here (4th drama down): www.madeinmanchester.tv/drama

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

Brighton Women V Arsenal W was called off due to the waterlogged (League-2-standard) Crawley pitch. In 2023 a similar thing happened. To have 1 match postponed may be seen as a misfortune, but to have 2 looks like carelessness by Brighton, especially as their PL pitch wasn't being used by their men.

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Excited ‘The Rumen’ has published my story ‘Baby Boom & Bust’, which dramatises the exploitation of young tenants by baby-boomer landlords in England. A ‘mockney’ thug landlord goads, patronizes & threatens his hard-up millennial tenant. How will the latter respond? www.therumen.com/publications...

Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Here we are: the woking class - LGBTQ+ gooners; fans priced & worn out by the turbo-capitalist men's game; folks of all ages, passports, ancestries; feminists to a woman - watching Arsenal Women in Louvain Wednesday night, putting on a show with their strength, skill, speed & intelligence...

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Thomas Wright @tomgatto.bsky.social · 14/12/2025

Thrilled @trashlightpress.bsky.social published my story, 'Anarchy in 80s England', which explores the varieties of anarchy alive & kicking back there & then, when Thatcher vandalised the social/economic fabric, & draws on my work experience on a building site. trashlightpress.com/anarchy-in-8...

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Anarchy in 80s England - TrashLight Press

‘Without accepted standards… you haven’t got a society; you have purposeless anarchy.’ Margaret Thatcher (1980) ‘There is no such thing as society; there are individual[s].’ Thatcher (1987) Shaven-hea...

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