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Zachary Colbert

Zachary Colbert’s work has appeared in Bristol Noir, Close2TheBone, Brighton Fringe festival, and been shortlisted for Curtis Brown’s Discovery Day. His upcoming novel ‘Money is the Most’ tells a multi-perspective heist story about class, desperation, and competing moralities in modern Britain.

Stories by Zachary Colbert

Featured in Close to the Bone

Dark Comedy

Knots of Wood

A darkly comic crime story set in a Brighton shoe shop, where obsession, desire, and murder meet over a wooden shoetree.

by Zachary Colbert

Featured in Bristol Noir

Heist · 33 min read

Laughing All the Way to the Banksy

Two cash-strapped Brighton musicians try to steal a Banksy from their local pub. But it proves harder than they thought.

by Zachary Colbert

Murder Mystery · 50 min read

Snog, Marry, Murder

A trashy make-under show becomes the setting for a locked room mystery where everyone on set is a suspect.

by Zachary Colbert

Macabre · 15 min read

Dead Leg

A darkly comic crime story about two flatmates, one nosey neighbour, and an antique razor picked up for a few quid.

by Zachary Colbert

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