The First Night
I make two stories in the afternoon so get up in the early hours to play with them, too excited to sleep. The stories live and breathe on their own, branching out and stretching wide and I respect...
View ArticleNo Love Lost
Over the winter I sleep lots, a hibernation-like reaction to the chill and dark outside but in summer I'm the opposite, wide awake in the early hours. This past summer was no different, and what else...
View ArticleA Short Story Advent Calendar
I was so chuffed to see that my short story Happy Frigging Christmas is today’s tale over at The Crime Warp’s crime short story advent calendar today. They say: As if being called out on Christmas day,...
View ArticlePretty Fingers
PRETTY FINGERS Paula tried to join her colleagues on the final leg of their Christmas night out but a jobsworth bouncer crossed his beefy arms and blocked the pub doorway. She recognised him as Brian,...
View ArticleOPPOSITES DETRACT
Last winter was a long one, the only colour outside offered up by balding grass or an evergreen bush overplaying its hand, plastic privet leaves perfect and even shaped, factory line fodder. Winter...
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