About Sad Porridge

I’m Dan Lyford Thomas, a writer based in Manchester. I’ve recently completed an MA in Creative Writing, so if you don’t like anything you read here, I’m afraid you’ll need to take it up with the university.

Sad Porridge is a place for my writing: flash fiction, short stories, humour, my dogs and occasional notes from my folk horror novel in progress, The Hollow Well. One of my peers described it as 'dark, depressing and grim.' Obviously, that will be on the front cover.

I write whatever idea comes into my mind. You'll find funny, sad, dark and mad, and maybe the odd poem if the wind takes me. Some pieces will take a couple of minutes to read. Others might require a cup of tea and a hobnob.

If you know me from Threads, this is where there's room for more than a quick observation. If you've arrived by some other route, welcome. Doug, pictured above, runs subscriptions. His targets are CPIs, cheese performance indicators.

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