Short fiction:
- The Reeds (2020) (at ‘Horrified’ Magazine)
- The Hiss (2017)
- Snow* (2009)
- Written just before the first of two consecutive severe (by UK standards) winters, I had to remember what a decent snowfall felt like. As the parent of a young child I found writing the end of this story very difficult; before, it wouldn’t have bothered me.
- Little Angels* (2010)
- The story that wouldn’t die. Started and abandoned several times, it finally came together when the children’s chant popped into my head (it’s a concatenation of the names of the companies that occupied an industrial unit in early 90s Dundee). Serendipity.
- Brook Street (2012)
- I love maps. Don’t trust ’em, though. They’ll lead you astray. They will.
- The Other Field* (2011)
- There’s a nod to Jan Mark’s “Thunder and Lightnings” in here; initially inspired by a promo image for Boards of Canada’s Geogaddi album; damned if I can find it now, though.
- En Prise* (2008)
- I read a Jeff Noon story – a good five years or so before starting this (the title escapes me) – about an “off switch” for the human body. What if…?
- Beeswax* (at Pulp.net) (2005)
- This is a story I salvaged from a novella in which the event described played a relatively minor role. It doesn’t even features the novella’s main character. Talk about killing your darlings.
- The Ambush* (at Read This!) (2004)
- Loosely autobiographical. My Dad made an SR-71 Blackbird model, which I passed off as my own work at the Boys’ Brigade…
*Also available in Behind the Scenes at the Puppet Theatre from the Kindle store. Just 99p!
Into the Gyre 