Dark Tales from the Mid-World, a collection of short stories by the members of the Mid-World Arts Writers’ Group (including myself), is out now! The collection includes my existential horror, Scale, as well as a bevy of horrorific and spooky tales by other contributors. Check it out at the link above!
My story ‘Migration’ has been published in The Pink Hydra
My new short story, ‘Migration’, has just been published in The Pink Hydra – and you can read it there for free! The tale answers the age-old question of what precisely it would be like to be married to a shape-shifting dragon. Check it out!
SUMMER’S END
What’s new in the Mall is a matter of perspective, but the Girl’s fairly certain that the only perspective that really matters is hers. And to her, the door is new. She remembers coming down the corridor, not ten minutes ago, on her way to the roof, running her fingers along the glossy white walls…
THE FLOOD
The old folk know why the rains are so heavy that year. The god of the river is angry. He appeared to a group of farmers at the ford to the north, blue-faced and bleary-eyed, and said they’d allowed the Gauravayan army to cross His sacred way in the spring without offering the proper sacrifices. As punishment, he will swell and rage and let no-one cross. The farmers offered him a goat but he asked what use a river god has for a goat. They offered him a bowl of milk, and he said the same.
PECULIAR TULIPS
The bounty hunter forgets why he was in the building the instant he walks out. He looks back through the entrance yawning doorlessly in the unmarked redbrick facade behind him. Then he looks up and down the alley. The sky is thick with grey-bellied clouds and the asphalt about him patched with mirroring patches of…