With a constant need for entertaining copy Alan earned a good side income by writing short stories for the "Sun" Short Story section; here are a selection of 16 of these stories published in the 1940's and 50's which reveal his inner novelist, a great story teller of the less is more school. A talent which would resurface again in his retirement with critically acclaimed novels 'Lost Expectations' (2011) and 'The Returning' (2013).

“Galston Silver stood at the french window watching the rain start from a sullen sky. It was as if the heavens were weeping, he thought, because tonight Weston must die." - Psychological Factor.