Alex's Substack

For the ongoing and unfinished

By Alex McBride

No Sense of Justice

I've not sat down with anything for a while so this was nice to get back to

Jun 2•Alex McBride

Litter

Happy to admit this is a bit odd, but it should settle into a bit of a more normal human love story at some point, probably

Mar 29•Alex McBride

TikTok Shop

This is part of a longer story about post, the first bit of which I shared in November last year

Mar 15•Alex McBride

Angels at the Window

This is a memory I've long had, but only actually worked out 'what it was' when I was in my late twenties

Feb 15•Alex McBride

Jamie's School Dinners

In which it turns out I've got more to say about sweets than I do any other issue of the day

Feb 1•Alex McBride

Original Sin

With not a lot to write about during lockdown this was the first bit of fiction I tried playing with

Jan 11•Alex McBride

Nothing's Free

This one could be longer but isn't far off finished I don't think

Dec 21, 2025•Alex McBride

Rainbows

I always liked the Skittles advert and wanted to play around a bit with the idea - but as ever haven't got far

Dec 7, 2025•Alex McBride

No Post on Sundays

I think we used to live next door to a man who didn’t know the Berlin Wall had come down, but I haven’t got to that bit here

Nov 23, 2025•Alex McBride

The Green Bin

This is about losing the plot, and later will involve a big lorry

Nov 9, 2025•Alex McBride