Out in 2021
Perpetuity Post
Westerplatte, Gdansk, which bore the brunt of the first direct attacks of the Second World War, from German warships
If the enemy has set the post office on fire, that's bad; aside from the death and ruins, how do you post a letter?
My very short story Perpetuity Post is now online with the wonderful Toho Journal. It's so short that if I told you anything much about it, it'd give it all away, but as ever it's my take on a time in history most people would prefer to forget.
There is a lovely illustration with it by Janice Merendino.
The story is here.
My very short story Perpetuity Post is now online with the wonderful Toho Journal. It's so short that if I told you anything much about it, it'd give it all away, but as ever it's my take on a time in history most people would prefer to forget.
There is a lovely illustration with it by Janice Merendino.
The story is here.
Unethical Use of a Frisbee
Will the flames of Pentecost settle on your head?
'I missed my lunchtime visits to the church of St John the Baptist near work. I believed the legend that St John’s skull had found its way around the world to be secreted in the church’s walls. One priest tried to bar me from tapping them, but another said that if it was I who was destined to find it, then nobody should stand in my way. Patronizing dick. But it wasn’t like, if the walls sounded different, I’d be there next day with a wrecking ball. I know I told the nasty priest that, but I was joking, mostly. My enquiries had already shown me that hiring the ball and vehicle and mandatory two-man team was going to be prohibitively expensive.'
When she gets chucked out of her job, a woman copes with her downtime in various creative ways. Why shouldn't she look for John the Baptist's head? Her little town was as good a place as any for it to have ended up.
In the park, aged punks sulkily refuse to show their colors, unlike the dog-walking men, eyes out for the chance of preening. The Frisbee Man seems to be aimlessly amiable, but is there more to his disc-chucking than meets the eye?
Unethical Use of a Frisbee is one of my favourites of my own stories, and I'm so glad it was able to find a good home with the kind people of The Blue Nib. You can read it all here.
When she gets chucked out of her job, a woman copes with her downtime in various creative ways. Why shouldn't she look for John the Baptist's head? Her little town was as good a place as any for it to have ended up.
In the park, aged punks sulkily refuse to show their colors, unlike the dog-walking men, eyes out for the chance of preening. The Frisbee Man seems to be aimlessly amiable, but is there more to his disc-chucking than meets the eye?
Unethical Use of a Frisbee is one of my favourites of my own stories, and I'm so glad it was able to find a good home with the kind people of The Blue Nib. You can read it all here.
A Man with a Lot of Explaining to Do
Cafe Factotum, Gdansk, Poland, September 2018
'She understood that her great grand uncle Emmett liked acquiring things. She understood too that he had a fondness for telling stories. In another few years, it became clear that what Emmett Dorn liked most was observing people, messing with them, and then killing them.'
A little history of a big man reveals an unpleasant family trait to a young girl with an investigative nature. Litbreak Magazine kindly published a very short excerpt from my novel-in-progress/stasis The Fortune Teller’s Factotum.
You can read it here.
A little history of a big man reveals an unpleasant family trait to a young girl with an investigative nature. Litbreak Magazine kindly published a very short excerpt from my novel-in-progress/stasis The Fortune Teller’s Factotum.
You can read it here.
