Selected short films & stories

Lanre Ajayi

A collection of animated shorts & a bedtime story.

Tap any title to play. Best with sound, in a dark room.

Every story here is written by me. The animation is built with AI assistance.

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New · a story in eight parts

Twelve Hours in the Wrong Coat

A hospital porter takes the wrong coat off an adjacent peg, walks out to the loading bay, and sees a car that was meant to be seen by exactly one man. Twelve hours, one continuous day, and a promise he made on the phone that morning that nobody watching will guess.

Start the day ▸8 parts · read in order
A series in twelve parts

The Blind Lady

A courtroom that travels, because nobody better will come. The last old ship on a run the new courts voted not to serve — a legal adviser at a crossroads, a back office holding the whole thing together, and twelve ordinary mornings that decide whether any of it is worth a life.

Open the list ▸12 parts · read in order
A journey in eight parts

The 9.58 to Wend's End

A morning train runs the length of the country to the sea. A hundred strangers, each going somewhere — a widow, a fare-dodger, a family, a sleeping man — and one guard who sees it all. A gentle, devastating anthology in eight parts.

Board the 9.58 ▸8 parts · read in order
New · a film in four parts

The Appeal

Two friends are pulled into an old crime reconstruction — and into the real night behind it. They save a life. They should not have. A complete tragedy in four parts, where the last part answers the first.

Start the series ▸4 parts · watch in order
A story in fifteen chapters

Today’s Date

One story, told by five people and a dog — each of whom sees only their own piece of it. Fifteen chapters that circle a single day, and only add up when you’ve heard them all.

Read in order ▸15 chapters · an anthology
The Films — 10

Alley

Short film

A wallet, a dead-end alley, and two people the city has already made up its mind about. What they think and what they dare say are not the same thing.

Calls

Dark comedy

A night shift, a taxi office, and a phone that will not stop ringing.

Get In, Get Done, Get Out

Comedy · Heist

A cold-blooded job, executed to the letter. The letter was the problem.

House Call

Thriller

An ordinary appointment. An ordinary house. Broad daylight.

Inevitabilis

Thriller

A family, a house, and a knock at the door that was always coming.

The Morning Through the Glass

Picture book

Inside the glass it is always snowing, and everyone is happy. But one small girl on the bridge can see a morning no one else believes in — and she will not look away.

N14

Night service · Drama

The last bus of the night, and a long way to the end of the line. Your tap rings the bell.

The Tapping at the Window

Picture book

A bedtime story about waiting, and listening, and what might be at the window.

Three Knocks

Noir

Three knocks, at the wrong hour. Nobody is expected.

(Un)Civility

War drama

A soldier, a stranger, and a flickering bulb between them.

I also take commissions — stories for museums, heritage sites, charities and publishers, built the same way as everything above.

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