Carmine
A short story of 11,500 words. A tale about modern day witchcraft, set in the sleepy neighbourhood of Walker’s Creek in West Virginia. A cautionary tale for Halloween.
Halloween Story
Carmine - Another Halloween
A Carmine Brown and The Wiccan Sisters of Walker’s Creek story, about modern day witchcraft in West Virginia. A tale told in 12,980 words, or thereabouts.
Halloween Story
Can We Leave This Until After Christmas
A short story of about 8,310 words with a seasonal feel, there’s even a Santa. Maybe not the kind of Santa you’d expect, but definitely a Santa. It seems mayhem among South London gangsters, doesn’t stop just because it’s the season of goodwill………
Seasonal Horror
Momentum
Momentum - A short story set a little in the future. Word count 9,284
A long(ish) short story. Leo Babb is a complex character, with a lot going on in his head and in his very ordered life. I hope you keep wondering about Leo, right up to the final page.
SciFi Aliens
Tehran's Old Ghosts
A short story set during the Iranian Revolution in 1978. Eight westerners find themselves trapped in their hotel. Little do they realise that the trouble on the streets is the least of their problems. A far older danger has been awakened by the death and violence.
Word count 15,400
Horror Ghosts
The Muse
A seasonal offering of 9,260 words, that isn’t even slightly festive. A dark tale of unwise choices, a ghost and ultimately…… The perfect antidote to all that dreadful Christmas cheer.
Horror Ghosts
Short Sighted
Short Sighted - Word count 6,274
To a writer short stories are like children, you should love them all equally and never have a favourite. Yet….This story arrived fully formed in my head one morning, like a kiss from a muse. It is my favourite………
A tale about a haunting, set in a sleepy English coastal town that had seen better days.
A Haunting
Change For The Machine
Change for the Machine
A short story about alien abduction; set in Stockport, just a little in the future.
Word count 5,476
Frank is like most of us, he just wants a quiet and ordinary life ! Call it luck, call it tricks played on us by the multiverse. One Sunday night in October, his life becomes anything but quiet and ordinary.
SciFi Alien Abduction
The Edge Of The Universe
The Edge of the Universe - A short story set in Britain, fifty or sixty years, or so from now.
Word Count 11,230
This story really was based on someone asking; where is the edge of the universe ?
A Sci-Fi tale about fusion power, the occult and unseen forces……….
SciFi Fusion Power
Pond Life
A short story of about 9,130 words set mostly in Southgate in North London. A horror story for Halloween, involving the strange friends Tim made on Twitter and the……. But I’m getting ahead of the story.
If he’d listened to Delphine none of it might have happened. But who does listen to BDSM junkies on the internet ?
Horror Creatures
Dreams Of Tooth & Claw
Dreams of Tooth and Claw - A short story set in London, just a little in the future
Word count 6,920
Some short stories are a kiss in the dark from a stranger, this one is more of a kick in the teeth from a mugger. If you sit next to someone on the tube, who is sleeping and growling……….
Horror Creatures
Light Is The Key
Light is the Key – A short story, based around the life of Nikola Tesla.
Told in 11,274 words.
Just about the hardest thing to get out of my head and onto the page. I was determined to use a style and structure fitting to the period, which was hard work.
Nikola Tesla and his laboratory were real, as was the fire in 1895. As for poor Peter Kaplan and the mysterious Jules Strauss….. I’ll leave you to decide if they ever really existed.
SciFi Strange Occurrences
Odd People
I humbly offer you my gift of darkness, tinged with hope. A short story of about 14,300 words, set this Christmas on the British coastline, somewhere near Hastings.
A traditional gothic tale for Christmas, with a few modern twists….
Festive Horror
Past Lives
A short story of about 1,900 words. A romance, wrapped up in a mystery, wrapped up in something……
Dianne was angry, she’d been angry for quite some time…..
Strange Beings
Once A Slum Runner
“Mo had run, only accompanied by a girl with an attitude problem and a perfect body. He drifted for a while, wondering if that really was a bad thing.”
SciFi Set in Mendera Universe
The Final Deterrent
The Final Deterrent – Word Count 5,313
A short story set on an unknown world at some time in their future.
A single protagonist who we quickly realise isn’t human……………….
SciFi - AI - The Future
Helen
A short story for Christmas 2023 set in South London, Greenwich to be precise. Have you ever lost someone and had a dream about them. A dream that felt so real, so intense, so intimate….That part of you refused to ever admit it was just a dream ?
Festive - Happy Ending - Feel Good
Lemuel Schneider
A short story of around eight thousand, four hundred words; a tale of the supernatural for Halloween 2024.
Moongates are everywhere; there might be one in your local park.
Halloween - Supernatural - Moongates