My friends thought I was mad when I quit my job. My wife was pregnant, and a student at the time, but I needed the change. I needed to start living. “I’m moving to Spain to write a book,” I announced to my brother. Chris Whitaker, Guardian 11/12/20 A bit silly if you ask me, […]
NOW AVAILABLE HERE My story, Grooming my Grandfather, will appear in the next edition of Vastarien. Though of course the events of this weird story are not in any way related to facts of real life, it remains very personal to me, and I am grateful to Jon Padgett and the Vastarien team for selecting […]
Very happy to have had a story picked up for broadcast on Pseudopod in 2021. Details to follow once the contract is signed. It has been a bit of a dry run this year, so this news is good, and I am at work on a new batch of stories, including my first werewolf tale. […]
The good folk at the Oklahoman Pagan Quarterly were the first to send my story Born Free out into the world, selecting it as the winner in their Spooky Samhain contest last year. Now the kind burghers of Tales to Terrify will be producing an audio version, to be broadcast next year. A couple of […]
My third alternative universe Apollo story is now running free in the wilds of sf magazine land – “The Bride of the Blob” appears in the latest issue of Andromeda Spaceways Magazine. I’ve been aiming at that market for some time, very happy to have landed there. The story doesn’t have Sonny and Cher, but […]
Looky here!
Numb-bats Body artfully draped Wrist carefully exposed Window opened just a little A late night pose . Trap wary though jaded Set the scene Lure them in . Room ransacked Car carjacked Best of all that morning Feelings stolen away . Cheap furry buddhas Bodhi-bat-vas Take away nirvahna Delivered every night . Take it all […]
I. Billy Be a hero The rest of us will creep out the back Our wives were happy Our kids were happy They didn’t care about Billy After all, their Dads came back. II. The night Chicago died There was nothing good on TV I went to bed early and missed it all. Dammit! III. […]
Casper: the sadness of a friendly ghost How can you live with the fact a child died for your cartoon pleasure? You did him no favours taming him, accustoming him to humans. Oh yes, he is a friendly ghost, and you may count that as an accomplishment, but what does it mean? He craves companions, […]
I was given a Kindle for Father’s Day (just passed here in Australia), and a voucher as well – don’t think too kindly of them, they live in fear of the towers of books ready to collapse and take them out – its not hoarding if its books, say I, otherwise libraries would be hoarders […]
