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The Shadow Booth: Weird Times, Weird Fictions

Weird times call for weird fictions. We're all looking over our various shoulders at the lurking shadows and the too-bright lights...

Writing Animals: Pigskin

For a long while I tried to keep my gastronomical inclinations out of my animal stories after deeming meat-eating too obvious a target...

Writing Animals: A Place to Dump Guinea Pigs

Tuesday 13th September, Liar’s League in London, actor Greg Page reads my latest animal story “A Place to Dump Guinea Pigs”: Enjoy that?...

Writing Animals: Shooting an Elephant

It is with rather astonished and delirious delight that I can say these words: the current issue of Ambit Magazine (no. 224) features one...

Writing Animals: A Time Before Horses

The latest in my series of stories about animals has galloped free, ready for public consumption. Following hot on the tails of my dog,...

Writing Animals: Hutched

It is with delight that I can say my rabbit story ‘Hutched’ has been republished in issue two of Foxhole Magazine along with two...

Writing Animals: The Cat's Eye

Originally written in March 2015 It is with lovely delight that I can announce that my short story The Cat's Eye will be published later...

Writing Animals: The Fauna Manifesto

Originally written in November 2014 for the 'Fauna' spoken word event THE FAUNA MANIFESTO “If a lion could talk, we could not understand...

Writing Animals: Broadcast of the Foxes

Originally written in October 2014 On Thursday coming, my brother and I will present a brand new piece of music/fiction fusion called...

Eating Animals: Being Vegetarian, Meat Guilt & the Winterson Rabbit

Originally written in June 2014 Being Vegetarian A cannibal walks into a bar. He orders a mushroom risotto. The barman frowns. 'You...