RT fiction

Below Foxbones Rock

Short story featuring a climb plus two peculiar poets [2300 words 10 mins]

Jul 15 • Ronald Turnbull

The Hole under Jerusalem

The first 1% of a long fantasy novel about some underground mountaineering [1400 words 6 mins

Jun 17 • Ronald Turnbull

The man who changed his name to Thunder

The sin of Pride it was, renaming himself in such a fancy way. But did it truly deserve such punishment? [short story 800 words

Feb 18 • Ronald Turnbull

Plase note: this short story does not display the proper Christmas spirit. [1300 words, 5 mins

Dec 17, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Nurikabe, the helper of humanity

I am Nurikabe, helper of humanity. Helper, in particular, by means of my playfully enlarged scrotum. [900 words 5 mins

Sep 10, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

A boulder and a boulderer

Brought out of the mountains by a glacier to become the only 17b boulder-climb in southern England [short story 1500 words 6 mins

Jul 23, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Incident in the Devil's Kitchen

A Cambridge man goes for a ramble around Cwm Idwal [1600 words, 8 mins

May 14, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

The Haunting of Climb B

Short story from my new ebook [very short, 1000 words 4 mins

Feb 26, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

My new ebook of eschatological* short stories is now up on Amazon Kindle (*eschatology: the academic study of the afterlife)

Feb 12, 2025 • Ronald Turnbull

Jamie Dodd of the Muir

A story of the Southern Uplands [1600 words 7 mins

Dec 4, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

One really difficult iceclimb is going to change his life. [Short story 1100 words 5 mins

Sep 25, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

Down among the dolmens

A long-distance walker finds an unusual way of earning 40 Euros [Short story 1500 words - 6 mins

Jul 3, 2024 • Ronald Turnbull

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