Goodbye 2016, but thank you for your last parting gift to me! My story, ‘The Big Reveal’, has just been published in the Winter 2017 edition of Kaleidotrope. Life, death, the great beyond, everlasting misery and terror, crazy parents, gangsters (aka lawyers), what a great way to start the new year / see out the […]
Looking for the good life? Want to express your basic nature, unworried by constraints? Need to get away from it all? You are not the only one, there’s a whole bunch of folk itching to change their surroundings … ‘Eat, Pray, Wait’, something small and nasty by moi, appears in the latest edition of Not […]
David Stevens transforms the countryside into a terrifying ecological nightmare in “Crop Rotation“, a story that makes disgust its bread and butter. Why, thank you very much! I can’t ask for much more than that: terrifying, nightmare, and disgust, all in one sentence. Insert smiley face here. I am happy to see that Haralambi Markov’s review of […]
I have been plugging “At the Edge” recently, but I should give a mention to another anthology I am in, because it contains a story I was really very happy to see make its way out into the world, ‘The Boulevardier’. (The Boulevardier, he’s really quite a disgusting … man.) If you like dark stories, […]
… like me, has a story in the excellent anthology, At the Edge. Here is Tom being interviewed about his story at Angela Slatter’s blog.
With a wrap like this, of course I am extremely happy that my story ‘Crop Rotation’ is part of ‘At the Edge’, available now: Compiled by award-winning editing team Dan Rabarts and Lee Murray, and including a story by Arthur C. Clarke finalist Phillip Mann and foreword by World Fantasy Award winner Angela Slatter, At […]
Thomas Hobbes* said that life is nasty, brutish and short. He could have been speaking of my story, “Serial Killer Blues,” appearing in the most recent edition (volume 14) of ‘The Literary Hatchet‘. (Click on the link on the left to download the whole edition for free.) The editorial process for the story on the other […]
“the gory horror of … David Stevens” Hey, that’s me!
Billy Ocean knew the Truth, that Love Really Hurts … don’t worry about the “without you” bit, no qualifier is required. And to prove it, the speculative fiction anthology ‘Love Hurts‘ (left click on the title to be taken elsewhere) is now available for purchase and your reading pleasure. Marvel at the fools love makes […]
Love stories aren’t usually my thing, so I am thrilled to have a story – The Boulevardier – appearing in this forthcoming anthology, out on December 1st. Love the cover. Luvity luv luv luv.
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