I’m very pleased to find my creature feature ‘Of Morgawr and Mawnan’ short story published on Thief, by Tribe Media. It’s a campfire tale about the Owlman of Mawnan, a sighting of the mythical beast. Which is actually based on a true (controversial) tale set very close to where I live, although sadly I have…
Here’s a very short story I’ve written, published on 101words.org, which is exactly what it says on the tin, 101 words in length! And a tale very close to my heart – going out there to all those squeeze victims, I feel your pain, on a catastrophic level (slight over-exaggeration). Arctic Bloom
I am pleased to have a little flash fiction story accepted by The Drabble, published on their site here: The Drabble “a site dedicated to publishing original fiction, non-fiction, and poetic works of 100 words or less. Find us on Facebook @drabblemag or on Twitter @the_drabble” My piece is 100 words: A Calculated Wish
This was a lovely project, run by Linda Clearly at the Hypatia Trust in Penzance. With seven of us working together in a mini-thinktank: researching, debating and writing. ‘Hypatia: Her Story’ “Creative writing course explores Hypatia, the woman, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher. Working principally on the perspective of narrative – building in research and division…
In an ongoing quest of self-improvement and to stop myself procrastinating, for a while at least, I’m doing an online ‘Writing Short Fiction’ course with the Professional Writing Academy hosted by Mark Jervis. I’m still working on more short stories, but here’s an early two samples as to what I’m up to. It’s fun delving into new…
Book launch: 4 September 2013 (sold out) Samples pages from my self-published book, looking at the crossing-over of the human consciousness into a machine environment. The relationships of the characters within that environment are key to portraying how and why a situation may arise where there is a need for them to leave their ‘normal’…
Sample characters from a project based on an obsessive collector of rare species, who experiments on them to try and save them from pending extinction, whilst unwittingly causing them to become absolutely extinct. A cabinet of unfortunate curiosities. Subject 2: ‘Miniature Pink Quappo’ part of the Equipe family from Southern Asia The distinctive pink stripes…
“I felt sadness and a realisation of the swift passage of time, when I read in the Dispatch, of the death in Falmouth, Cornwall, of the former Miss Mabel Turton, Hunckall’s first ‘Carnival Queen’. What happy memories came flooding back of those poor but halcyon days in 1934… It’s amazing how a small notice in…