Short fiction

The Poison Girls in Bitter Distillations, edited by Mark Beech
(Egaeus Press) 2020

The Shiftings in The Far Tower, edited by Mark Valentine
(Swan River Press) 2019

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perf5.000x8.000.indd Geode in Pareidolia, edited by James Everington and Dan Howarth
(Black Shuck Books) 2019

 

 

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The Golden Hour in Uncertainties III, edited by Lynda E Rucker
(Swan River Press) 2018 

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grande_scarlet1All that is Solid in The Scarlet Soul, edited by Mark Valentine
(Swan River Press) 2017
Reprinted as a chapbook by Eibonvale Press in 2019
Published in German in Weird in 2019   

 

 

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In Scarlet Town in Murder Ballads, edited by Mark Beech
(Egaeus Press) 2017

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something-remains-a002The Pleasure Garden in Something Remains, edited by Peter Coleborn and Pauline E Dungate (Alchemy Press) 2016

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book_x_marks_the_spot_front_2Not a Through Tree in X Marks the Spot, edited by Ian Whates
(NewCon Press) 2016

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Kee6a00d8345295c269e201b8d12175b2970c-200wip Them Rollin’ in We Need to Talk (Jurassic London) 2015
Stories were selected in a writing competition 
judged by Athena from the Eve Appeal, Kindred’s Anastasia Scott, Conville & Walsh’s Susan Armstrong and Hodder & Stoughton’s Anne Perry.

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1795476_1084280334918889_265400601105857995_nBells of the Harelle in Tales from the Vatican Vaults, edited by David V Barrett (Constable & Robinson) 2015

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Pan 1The Lady in the Yard in Soliloquy for Pan, edited by Mark Beech
(Egaeus Press) 2015

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The-Outsiders-2014-703x1024Meat, Motion and Light in The Outsiders, edited by Joe Mynehardt (Crystal Lake Publishing) 2015

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The Mattejva1r of Meroz in Jews Versus Aliens, edited by Lavie Tidhar and Rebecca Levene
(Jurassic London) 2015

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Horror UncutPieces of Ourselves in Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease, edited by Tom Johnstone and Joel Lane
(Gray Friar Press) 2014

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mindseedLiving in the Vertical World in Mind Seed, edited by David Gullen and Gary Couzens (T-Party Publications) 2014

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Return of the Pikart Posse in Journeys into Darkness, edited by Trevor Denyer (Midnight Street) 2014
This tale was originally published in Midnight Street 4 in 2005, and revised for this anthology.

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Horror without victims_thumbnailLambeth North in Horror Without Victims, edited by DF Lewis (Megazanthus Press) 2013

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Rustblind_smallThe Turning Track (with Mat Joiner) in Rustblind and Silverbright, a collection of slipstream, horror and other fantastical fiction related to railways, edited by David Rix (Eibonvale Press) 2013 

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MonsterCoverFinalPreview_smallShe Lives in the Deep in Monster Book for Girls, edited by Terry Gates Grimwood (Exaggerated Press) 2012

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The Pearl and the Boil in The Horror Anthology of Horror Anthologies, edited by DF Lewis (Megazanthus Press) 2011

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cat_neverSurvivor’s Guilt in Never Again: Weird Fiction Against BlackStatic_14 (1)Racism and Fascism, edited by Allyson Bird and Joel Lane, (Grey Friar Press) 2010.  This story first appeared in Black Static 14 in 2009.

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Harmony in My Head in Conflicts, edited by Ian Whates (NewCon Press) 2010

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96 Tears in Postscripts 12, edited by Peter Crowther and Nick Gevers (PS Publishing) 2007
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Extended PlayIn the Pines in Extended Play: the Elastic Book of Music, edited by Gary Couzens (Elastic Press) 2006. Extended Play won the British Fantasy Society award for Best Anthology.

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cafe ole Tasting the Clouds in Café Olé: Too Hot to Handle, edited by Sarah Crabtree (Independent Persons Press) 2005
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Midnight Street 4 featured an interview with me as well as my two stories: The Colour of Water and Return of the Pikart Posse. Edited by Trevor Denyer, 2005

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Be Positive, Be Very Positive in Roadworks, 2000. Edited by Trevor Denyer.

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Fugitive Spirit in The Third Alternative 22. Edited by Andy Cox (TTA Press) 2000

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Slow Mirror

Maza Zoftig in The Slow Mirror: New Fiction by Jewish Writers. Edited by Sonja Lyndon and Sylvia Paskin (Five Leaves Press) 1996

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Short stories available on the web:
Fugitive Spirit at www.dowse.com/storyville-anth/stories/storyrr.html
(first published in The Third Alternative, 2000)

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