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What is Happening: A Story

I was in my house and my hands dropped a ball I was holding and it fell to the floor. Instead of picking it up, I tabled a Vote of No...

The Vegan Sausage Roll: A Story

I went to Greggs to buy a vegan sausage roll. I waited in the queue, my £1 coin clutched in my fingers like I’d won it somewhere, or...

Flocking to the Creek

Fiction-wise, I have a few new incomings on the horizon. This is particularly nice as I've had quite the drumming of rejections recently,...

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?...

Spiderseed: Laying the Eggs

For those of you who have read my latest collection Spiderseed, here's a bit more background about each of the stories. Enjoy! Trails In...

True Story: The Fourteen Stations of Blasphemy

Back in the heady days of 1997, my drama teacher Dad ran foul of the local churchgoers of Preston after he decided to stage a theatre...

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,...

Spiderseed: Collections and Collaboration

Exciting developments this week. I can giddly announce that my next flash fiction collection Spiderseed will be published with Sleepy...

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...