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Fiction available in anthologies
COMING SOON:
Congratulations on Your Apotheosis - Comic Fantasy - 4,028 words
To be published in UFO2, 2013
Free to Loving Home (Donation Required) - SF - 725 words
To be published in You, Me & A Bit of We by Chuffed Buff Books, 2013
Communication Skills in Flash Fiction World 2 - crime - 250 words
Behind Glass - Horror - 2105 words
Every part of him is sore: bones, muscles, teeth. His joints feel like they're made of ground glass. Even his eyelashes ache, which is a new one.
Published in zombie anthology So Long, and Thanks for All the Brains Dec 11, available on Amazon for Kindle
No Apples for Mother in Best of The New Flesh, Year 2 - SF - 869 words
Fiction available in magazines
Fiction available online
COMING SOON:
Seeing Red - SF - 1,055 words
To be published in Bete Noire Magazine, October 2013
For Your Safety and Comfort, Please Keep Arms, Legs and Tentacles Inside the Car At All Times - Fantasy - 3,215 words
'I found God. And I don't mean I became a born-again Christian or anything, I mean I literally discovered the omnipotent creator of the universe. While I was doing that house clearance in Balham.'
Still Life - Drama - 300 words
A dollar for a life-full of someone's memories. It's a bargain.
Published in Fractured West Issue #4, October 2012
No Past, No Future, Just Now - Horror - 1,677 words
Seeing Red - SF - 1,055 words
To be published in Bete Noire Magazine, October 2013
For Your Safety and Comfort, Please Keep Arms, Legs and Tentacles Inside the Car At All Times - Fantasy - 3,215 words
'I found God. And I don't mean I became a born-again Christian or anything, I mean I literally discovered the omnipotent creator of the universe. While I was doing that house clearance in Balham.'
Published in Penumbra eMag vol 2, issue 3, Dec 2012
Still Life - Drama - 300 words
Published in Fractured West Issue #4, October 2012
No Past, No Future, Just Now - Horror - 1,677 words
Seven years, the doctors said. The average life expectancy following diagnosis is approximately seven years.
Published in Morpheus Tales Issue #18 October 2012
Dear Ingrid - Horror- 1,000 words
I know, I know; you hate me. I get that. And I don't blame you. It's totally justified.
Published in the first edition of Wah Lum's Library, from Twisted Dreams Magazine, September 2012
Published in Morpheus Tales Issue #18 October 2012
Dear Ingrid - Horror- 1,000 words
I know, I know; you hate me. I get that. And I don't blame you. It's totally justified.
Published in the first edition of Wah Lum's Library, from Twisted Dreams Magazine, September 2012
Fiction available online
Short Stories (1,000 - 10,000 words)
COMING SOON:
You Don't Want What I Get - Horror - 1,198 words
To be published at Untied Shoelaces of the Mind
Getting Shot in the Face Still Stings - Horror - 3,800 words
'You must really have a death wish,' Marc says, and she laughs like that's the funniest thing she's ever heard.
Published at Black Treacle, 7 June 2013
Jeanette's Feast - Horror - 3,963 words
There had to be something she didn't like. Something she wouldn't eat. Didn't there?
Published at The Journal of Unlikely Entomology, May 2013
Never Leave Me - Dark Fantasy - 1,283 words
First there was true love's kiss, then the fair maiden became the radiant bride, and she lived happily ever after. But the stories all stopped there, and Katrine hadn't realised just how much ever after there would be.
Published at Daily Science Fiction, 22 Apr 2013
Like a Boss - Crime - 1,135 words
The office safe was empty except for a folded bundle of notes that might just about have paid for a couple rounds of beers, his home safe had some fake ID and a rumpled picture of ex-wife number three, the one who disappeared with the alligator wrestler down Florida. And that was all. So where was the rest of the stuff?
Published at Yellow Mama, 15th Dec 2012
Meredith Said - SF - 1,639 words
Meredith said that he should always remember that history gets written by the winners, and that what was in the books wasn't always how it actually happened in real life.
Published at Roar & Thunder, 20th November 2012
Speeding Toward Englightenment - Crime drama - 1,134 words
I love my sister and I want to help her, but she doesn't make it easy.
Published at The Cynic Online, August 2012
They Do Things Better in Albuquerque - Crime/murder - 1,559 words
If they're not precursors of disaster in real life, they are in my head. And that's where the important stuff happens, after all.
Published at Infective Ink, Mar 2012
One Free Go - Horror - 2,105 words
It's really getting out of hand lately, all this Halloween business.
Published and podcasted at Wily Writers Speculative Fiction, Dec 2011
Not with a Bang - SF - 1,275 words
Answer the calls, read the script, enter the data. And when certain words or phrases come up, type out the alarm codes.
Published at Daily Science Fiction, Jan 2011
Waiting for the End of the World - Drama - 1,910 words
She likes to imagine herself one of the last survivors of some kind of quiet apocalypse, making her way in a world that’s turned the page on humanity.
Published at The Waterhouse Review, Jan 2011
Legion - Crime/suspense (trigger warning: dark, includes reference to sexual violence) - 1,666 words
Stay in one shape too long, get fixed, and you get caught in other people's stories.
Published at Thrillers, Killers n Chillers, Nov 2010
COMING SOON:
The Visiphorical Art - SF - 919 words
To be published at SQ Magazine, 1 Sep
Underneath All the Skeletons of Rats - Horror - 466 words
Uncle Jeremy said the aliens were coming.
Published at Liquid Imagination, 31 May
Destiny Fell in Love - Fantasy - 754 words
“They’re all beautiful in L.A,” she said. “They’re all full of fire. It burns too bright, too blinding, and no-one will see you. You’ll be left alone in the dark, lost. Failure tastes like heroin and the scurrying of rats.”
Published at Every Day Fiction, 4 May 2013
Gravity Doesn't Love You - Drama - 406 words
'A little of what you fancy does you good,' she says with a gleaming, bloody-minded optimism that razor-burns Caroline's soul.
Published at Vine Leaves Literary Journal, 19 April 2013
Not the Pizza Girl - Comic fantasy - 1,000 words
He reeked of wine, sulphur and incense, and his eyes were glowing red. That didn't bode well, for either of them. The possessed were never big tippers.
Published at Every Day Fiction, 11 March 2013
Out Shopping in Hyperspace - SF - 594 words
'Space vegetables?' Joe shook his head. 'You're such a baby, Mia.'
Published at Every Day Fiction, 11 January 2013
Leap of Faith - SF - 150 words
They say Icarus's sin was hubris.
Published at Apocrypha and Abstractions 12 November 2012
The Great Escape - Drama - 583 words
It didn't satisfy his daughter. She wanted more. Always did.
Published at Fiction 365, 29th August 2012
Toil and Trouble - Humour - 606 words
Faye sniffed. ‘Pap,’ she said. ‘Watered down pap for impressionable teenagers and people who have no idea what real magic is.’
Published at the Journal of Microliterature, 8th July 2012
Damnable Behaviour - Drama - 200 words
A lot of people wish they lived in a different time, although most choose the future.
Published at The Pygmy Giant, 2nd July 2012
Stop Me If You've Heard This Before - Crime - 410 words
“Okay,” she said, “here we go. You're going to like this one.”
Published at Flash Fiction Offensive, June 2012
A Cat May Look at a Queen - Fantasy - 638 words
A trial like this was a treat; lawbreakers are a very rare breed in our society.
Published at Hogglepot, May 2012
In the Eternal Hope of Finding Treasure - Drama - 391 words
Attics should be caverns of wonder...
Published at Long Story Short, May 2012
Communication Skills - Crime - 250 words
He didn't look like he believed me, but I was telling him the truth. I really didn't hear voices anymore.
Published at Flash Fiction World, Apr 2012
An Object Lesson in Misanthropy - SF - 912 words
'Zoe was an accident,' Mum said. 'I never wanted to have kids. Never thought I'd be able to -- freaks of nature are usually sterile.'
Published at Untied Shoelaces of the Mind, Mar 2012
Bring It On - Crime/murder - 383 words
I don't have Em's way with words, but I do have a knife, and a complete lack of anything resembling a conscience.
Published at Shotgun Honey, Mar 2012
Grandpa - Drama - 200 words
'Grandpa,' Tommy said, 'have you got a name?'
Published at Postcard Shorts Feb 2012
Reparations - Drama - 543 words
Lisa waited for her turn until her patience ran out, which took about five minutes. Then she simply took it, played with it, and broke it.
Lisa waited for her turn until her patience ran out, which took about five minutes. Then she simply took it, played with it, and broke it.
Published at Linguistic Erosion, Feb 2012
Inside - Horror - 200 words
'Hi, darling,' said the thing that looked like my wife.
Published at Postcard Shorts, Jan 2012
There You Are, My Love - Drama - 999 words
I'm a painter. My father was a painter. My father killed himself. Two plus two equals don't let Marcus out of your sight in case he does something stupid.
Published at Every Day Fiction, Jan 2012
From Today - Drama - 370 words
What she longs for, more than anything, is to be like Melisande
Published at Eunoia Review, Jan 2012
Lilah Wakes Up - Drama - 383 words
It feels like a sign, but she’s not sure of what.
Published at The Molotov Cocktail, Dec 2011
Nor Any Drop to Drink - Horror - 641 words
You wouldn't know, to look at her.
Published at MicroHorror, Nov 2011 - winning entry, 'Water' contest
Full Service Package - Crime/suspense - 963 words
When it started to get nasty, they looked at me and they didn't see a crazy woman, a fantasist; they saw a spurned lover. Hell hath no fury, right?
Published at Every Day Fiction, Nov 2010
Nameless, Unreasoning, Unjustified - SF - 416 words
It wasn't easy for humans to reach the stars. It took money, time, effort. Sacrifice.
Published at MicroHorror, Nov 2010
No Apples for Mother - SF - 869 words
They called me the Mother of Enlightenment in the beginning. Now they call me the Mother of the Apocalypse.
Published at The New Flesh, Sep 2010 & included in the Year 2 Best of the New Flesh Anthology
The Voices of the Dead - Horror- 493 words
Her little girl was alive. Mine was dead.
Published at Flashes in the Dark, Sep 2010
The Sacred Rule - Horror - 263 words
'Wait till your father gets home,' was all she said.
Published at MicroHorror, Aug 2010
Micro Fiction (100 words or less)
Silence - Horror - 100 words
Published at 101 Fiction Sep 2012
Deep - Horror - 100 words
Published at MicroHorror, May 2012
Precious Things - Horror - 100 words
Published at MicroHorror, Feb 2012
Monday Morning - Drama - 50 words
Published at 50-1, Aug 2010
A Bridesmaid's Duties - Humour - 92 words
Published at Six Sentences, Aug 2010
Poetry
Two Women
Published at Vox Poetica, Jan 2011
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