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Flash Fiction
Flash fiction efforts from last weekend’s workshop (hosted by the incredibly talented Femi Martin). Not great, but not bad for 15 minutes apiece: ‘Run’ Silver space foil crackled as I leant against the...
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Pirate Bookshop
Searching Google Maps for how to get somewhere near Kings Cross I stumbled upon the ‘Pirate Bookshop’. Despite the name this is in fact an unlicensed sex shop (or was, it’s now been closed down) and...
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The Bathysphere
A few years ago I had the idea of a story set on a bathysphere, sunk deep below the waves. The crew would have been small, four or five, and the cable would have snapped, plunging them down, down, down...
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Unintentional friends
Friend 1: Morning. You’re looking rugged today. Friend 2: (strokes facial hair) Thanks bub. Friend 1: Hah. Kudos for the Wolverine reference. Friend 2: Say what? Friend 1: No? He says it in the comics...
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World Book Night – Someone Like You
WBN is fast approaching and I’ve now collected my 25 copies of Someone Like You from the wonderful Camden Lock Books at Old Street. I chose Someone Like You because reading it as a child I loved the...
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Hangover
This is a reworking of an earlier piece. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Wasps buzz and tumble over each other deep between my eyes. Light stings, sound sickens. I bury...
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A transitory meet-cute
The tube carriage is close to empty when I finish my book; an old couple sit at the far end, a man with a duffle bag stands in the centre well. There is also a girl sitting opposite me, reading …...
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The Art of the Con – #1
I arrived at the cafe at just after four thirty that afternoon and looked for Philip. He was sitting at his regular table in the far corner. ‘How are things?’ He looked up; ‘Ah James, hello. How are...
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From the Earth to the Moon using 21st Century Science
Two things: 1) The zombie/recency mash-up Pride and Prejudice and Zombies (written by Seth Grahame-Smith, published by Quirk Books) was a huge hit when it was published in 2009 and although it has...
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