Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fewer Things | 2011 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 2 | The Cave | 2011 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 3 | The Skirt | 2012 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 4 | Hitting Trees with Sticks | 2012 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 5 | Crosswords | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 6 | A Wolf | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 7 | The Truth | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 8 | Sports Leader | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 9 | Earthquakes | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 10 | Tamagotchi | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 11 | The Truck to Berlin | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 12 | The Virgin and the Soldier | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 13 | Red Enters the Eye | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 14 | An Industrial Evolution | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 15 | Mr Carlton | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 16 | A Paris Story | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 17 | The Bicycle Express | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 18 | The Flight into Egypt | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 19 | Abulafia | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 20 | Everything Is Moving, Everything Is Joined | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 21 | The Pitch | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 22 | Morphogenesis | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 23 | The Heart of Denis Noble | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 24 | What Kind of Dog | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 25 | Crystal Night | 2013 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 26 | My Soul to Keep | 2017 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 27 | Red Lights | 2017 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 28 | Many Years Ago, I Was Standing In A Meydan | 2017 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 29 | The War of All Against All | 2017 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 30 | Easy on The Rose’s | 2017 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 31 | The Pardon List | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 32 | The Mastiff | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 33 | Heavy Clay Soil: A story from the Midlands Rising | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 34 | A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 35 | Trying Lydia | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 36 | Banner Bright | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 37 | Kick-Start: A story on the National Blind March | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 38 | For the Tape | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 39 | There Are Five Ways Out Of This Room | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 40 | Spun | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 41 | Rivers of Blood | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 42 | May Hobbs | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 43 | The Stars are in the Sky | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 44 | Exterior Paint | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 45 | The Beckhams are in Betty’s | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 46 | The Opposite of Drowning | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 47 | Never Going Underground | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 48 | Conrad Street | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 49 | The Turd Tree | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 50 | Expectant Management | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 51 | Withen | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 52 | Bed 45 | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 53 | The Poison Tree | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 54 | The Abandoned Person’s Tale | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 55 | The Gardens of Babylon | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 56 | The Widening Gyre | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 57 | Kindling | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 58 | The Sea-God | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 59 | Into Tiny Pieces | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 60 | The Hare’s Declaration | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 61 | The Birds of Kipsala Island | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 62 | Bird of Paradise | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 63 | The Slow Man | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 64 | The Beginner’s Guide to Smuggling | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 65 | Storyteller | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 66 | Return Ticket | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 67 | The Child in the Lock | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 68 | Benzene Dreams | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 69 | From Above | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 70 | The Tank | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 71 | The Biggest Bridge in the World | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 72 | Inertia | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 73 | Flypaper | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 74 | The Dependant’s Tale | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 75 | Testicular Cancer vs. the Behemoth | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 76 | The Appellant’s Tale | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 77 | Change for Low Rixham | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 78 | The Lover’s Tale | 2018 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 79 | The Sayer of the Sooth | 2019 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 80 | The Longhand Option | 2019 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 81 | Passing | 2019 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
| 82 | Living in Hope | 2021 | Kit de Waal | Buy |
Comma Press is a Manchester-based independent publisher with a strong focus on short fiction, translation, and experimental work. The Comma Singles series represents one of their most ambitious projects: publishing individual short stories and novellas as separate ebooks, making short fiction available in bite-sized digital form outside the usual anthology format.
The range of titles in the series is wide. Some pieces are rooted in specific places (Heavy Clay Soil, Conrad Street), others in particular historical moments (Crystal Night, A Fiery Flag Unfurled in Coleman Street), and others explore personal and domestic subjects with a sharp, compressed intensity. Kit de Waal appears early in the series with Fewer Things (2011) and contributed several more pieces over the following years.
For readers who enjoy short fiction but find full anthologies overwhelming, Comma Singles offer a useful way in. You can sample individual authors or subjects without committing to a whole collection, and the back catalogue now covers over 80 separate pieces spanning more than a decade of publication.