About QlL

For the past eight years J-P Stacey has maintained Quiet little Lies as a labour of love.

Quiet little Lies is a repository of experiments and excursions in fiction. While predominantly consisting of short stories, QlL also includes experimental story cycles, poetry, pastiche, satire and  "lightning" short-shorts. Like all experimental disciplines, QlL consists of both entertaining successes and informative failures: we do not pre-empt your decision on which work is which.

Since late 2006, QlL has also been home to the Pocketfuls of Lies. These have been short story collections, printed in a samizdat style, and available in limited numbers in time for Christmas. Once all print editions have found their owners, an electronic copy of the Pocketful has been made available on line, free of charge.

Apart from brief periods of interest, rashes of inbound links and spikes of notoriety—the site was once mentioned by sorely missed tech weekly NTK—it has largly maintained a stoic and unremarked-upon existence. Being at the boundaries of the web, however, has not been detrimental to its Google juice. However, so few people search for phrases from slightly unsettling prose, and those that do rarely want to actually find it.

No matter: to write is to think and develop one's inner life, and to be read—even singly, even critically—is to connect. These are all essential aspects to a full, human experience, and long may I continue to write QlL.

J-P