Short Fiction
- ‘Heart of Darkness’, Short Story, Mslexia (2004):
- 'The afterlife is all around us in the rocks, the trees ...
- When I wake it is still night-time. The quiet is absolute, and the fire is out. Around me and above is a dark opacity never seen in Europe .... here the night is all ablaze with shooting silver. I was almost afraid to see the sky so active ... the air was wild with stars near-missing and showers of sand alight with energies I never dreamt of, arcing across, away. Here was the making and the breaking of the universe, big bangs reenacted nightly without so much as a whisper.'
‘it was the sparing detail [that made] Nicky Hallett’s marvelously wrought tale … so unsettling.
The beauty and restraint of her prose … the loving description of Africa that follows, almost travel writing as we watch the stars and smell the red earth …’
(Muriel Gray)
'Hares' Breath', Short Story, published in Stand, 2023,
https://www.standmagazine.org/
Prizes & Awards
'Hares' Breath', Long-Listed for the Fish International
Short Story Competition, 2021
