Paris has a way of loosening people. It draws out confessions, revives old longings, and asks uncomfortable questions of those who pass through it....
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D. C. Hobson
D. C. Hobson
D. C. Hobson is a fiction writer whose work is shaped by cities, memory, and the quiet moments that sit between chance encounters and lasting change. His short story collection Paris Moments explores Paris not as a backdrop but as a living presence—one that observes, interferes, and occasionally conspires in the lives of those passing through it.
Blending humour, reflection, and emotional precision, his stories follow travellers, locals, lovers, and dreamers as they navigate cafés, staircases, metro platforms, and late-night conversations. Hobson’s writing is influenced by film, literature, and lived experience, with a particular affection for places where longing and reality gently collide.
He divides his time between writing projects and travel, always returning to the idea that cities leave marks on us long after we leave them.
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D. C. Hobson is a fiction writer whose work is shaped by cities, memory, and the quiet moments that sit between chance encounters and lasting change. His short story collection Paris Moments explores Paris not as a backdrop but as a living presence—one that observes, interferes, and occasionally conspires in the lives of those passing through it.
Blending humour, reflection, and emotional precision, his stories follow travellers, locals,...
Other Writing
At a Different Pace is a reflective short story about movement, timing, and the subtle ways understanding takes shape.
Set along The Camino de Santiago, the story follows two people sharing the same physical journey while gradually sensing that they are not experiencing it in quite the same way. The day unfolds through walking, routine, and silence, allowing small observations to surface and familiar assumptions to loosen.
Rather than relying on overt turning points, the story lingers in...
Almost Mine is a quiet, atmospheric short story about coincidence, restraint, and the fragile nature of possibility.
An unexpected moment interrupts the narrator’s routine, setting off a day coloured by anticipation and small, private hope. As he moves through familiar streets, cafés, and stairwells, ordinary details begin to carry new weight, charged by the sense that something meaningful might be unfolding just beyond his line of sight.
Rather than building toward revelation, the story...
In the rain-slicked backstreets of Montmartre, a self-appointed guide to the secret muses of Paris draws his struggling writer friend into a late-night search for inspiration. He promises an encounter with the elusive Green Fairy — a mythic force said to awaken artistic genius — and what begins as amused scepticism slowly tips into something far more dangerous.
Over the course of one intoxicating night in a hidden Belle Époque salon, a single sip of emerald-hued liquid blurs the line between...
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