New Poem Out Now!

Delighted to have a New poem out in Edinburgh’s Little Living Room. With a theme close to my heart, Role Play, it’s lovingly illustrated throughout and full of high quality poetry and prose on the theme.

So, that was 2018 (Part 1)

In reflective mode and being a lapsed(?) Goth I was thinking 2018 had been a rubbish year. But, some stuff notwithstanding, looking back, that’s just not true. Certainly, there have been some great high points, in terms of my writing life. So, here are some highlights. I’ll post about events in the next few days, but some published highlights first:

Publications

Another Place Anthology

This is a refugee-themed science fiction anthology in aid of the Lord Arthur Dubs foundation, so all in a good cause. This featured a long short story of mine, The Hikkikimori, about an alternate world where Edo period Japan never ended, full of Samurai battles and a burgeoning romance.

Voices Along the Road Anthology

A companion to the Another Place anthology, this included two poems of mine, Barriers and the Shore.

 

BFS Horizons #6

Poems:      Superboy’s Robot Double, Total Eclipse of the Soul

BFS Horizons #7

Poems: Ouroborous (A Villanelle), Dystopian Sparkle

Tales from the Weird West #6

Last Chance of the Mines of Madness

This was one of the stories I’ve most enjoyed writing, and another longer short story. Cowboys, monsters and a kung fu hero, alongside underground exploration.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Scrutiny Journal

Out now! My story ‘Staring at the Sun’ is featured in the latest issue of Scrutiny Journal, the online literary journal of Magic Realism.

Have a read here:

https://scrutinyjournal.com/2017/07/02/sun/

The Restless Consumer

Out now! The latest issue of Sein und Werden, The Restless Consumer, and it includes my story Racing the Clock. It’s also great to be published online alongside Benjamin F Jones, Sarah Doyle, and David Turnbull.

This is a topical theme, edited by Allen Ashley, well worth a read!

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring15/index.html

http://www.kissthewitch.co.uk/seinundwerden/spring15/page3.html

New Short Story ‘Synchronicity’ Out Now In Wordland 5

Out now! New short story ‘Synchronicity’, this is my collaboration with the author/ editor/ poet Allen Ashley.  This is the True Love themed edition of Wordland.  Can love conquer all, even time?

http://wordland5truelove.weebly.com/

Out Now! Life is a Rollercoaster

My flash fiction ‘Schadenfreude’ has just been released in the themed anthology from Kind of a Hurricane Press, Life is a Rollercoaster.

The brief was to write a story on the theme of amusement parks.  My story is a bit of a satire, not an attraction you’d want to ride on…

http://www.kindofahurricanepress.com/2014/10/life-is-roller-coaster-is-now-available.html