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Dancing in the Winter Rooms
in Electric Velocipede

Science-Fiction, 6050 words (2011)

The Crew have been moving through the Rooms for generation upon generation.  Now, for the first time, they have a choice - and the terrifying prospect of change.

Passive Resistance
in Redstone Science Fiction

Science-Fiction, 3990 words (2011)

Alec, ambasaddor for the Peace Council, finds himself fleeing for his life, his only hope the last advice of his murdered bodyguard.

Jenny's Sick in Lightspeed

Science-Fiction, 3760 words (2010)

In a future with a cure for all sickness, a student struggles to come to terms with his flatmate's strange addiction to disease.


Stockholm Syndrome in The Living Dead

Horror, 3200 words (2008)

A survivor holed up in an abandoned house finds himself drawn to a zombie that reminds him of his dead son, despite his certainty that its unusual intelligence will lead to trouble.

The Desert Cold
in Flash Fiction Online

Fantasy, 860 words (2008)

A traveller grapples with the ferocious extremes of the desert, and with the fate of his sagacious guide.

Strive to be Happy in Flash Fiction Online

Mainstream, 890 words [Pushcart Prize nominee] (2008)

An abusive man is left to deal with the consequences of his actions, and with the destruction of his partner's favourite poster, a print of
Max Ehrmann's prose poem Desiderata.

King Gob's Warcry in From the Asylum

Fantasy, 450 words [filed under Monthly Fiction / Review the Work of 2007 / June 2007] (2007)

A mythical leader prepares his people for their final assault against an age-old enemy.


Life Sentence in Mytholog

Science-Fiction, 570 words
(2007)


The last two living humans on Earth confront the burden of their immortality.


COMICS

Endangered Weapon B #0 at Myebook, via Underfire Comics

12 pages (2011)

High jinx at Evil Island lead the Professor and his band of misfits - including the titular robotically-enhanced grizzly bear Banjo - to a fateful confrontation on the moon.


PODCASTS

Caretaker in the Garden of Dreams
in Shadowcast

Horror, 14:15 mins (2011)


Gug-Shabeth, eponymous caretaker, is forced to extreme and unorthodox measures to protect the bizarre crop under his care.


Jenny's Sick in Lightspeed

Science-fiction, 27:58 mins (2010)


In a future with a cure for all sickness, a student struggles to come to terms with his flatmate's strange addiction to disease.


Survivor Guilt in Variant Frequencies

Science-fiction / Horror, 32:34 mins (2010)

In an underground complex deep beneath the apocalypse-scarred earth, a dying man finds answers to the questions that have haunted his life.


Stockholm Syndrome in Pseudopod

Horror, 20:57 mins (2007)

A survivor holed up in an abandoned house finds himself drawn to a zombie that reminds him of his dead son, despite his certainty that its unusual intelligence will lead to trouble.


Fear of a Blue Goo Planet
in Chaos Theory: Tales Askew


Science-fiction / Horror, 26:08 mins [In three parts] (2007)

A starship's captain imagines himself to be the sole survivor of an horrific shuttle crash on an alien world - until he finds his companions apparently reanimated by a strange blue gunk.


E-ZINES

Today the War Ended, Tonight the Sky Burned in OG's Speculative Fiction

Science-Fiction, 1830 words [Issue #24] (2010)

When Colonel Dyson comes to collect his wife Rosalie from a sanitarium, it's with the unbelievable claim that the decades-long war that drove her there is finally over.  Can it be true, and if it is, what explains the explosions in the night sky above?

The Ascension of DeepRED
in OG's Speculative Fiction

Science-fiction, 4870 words [Issue #15] (2008)

Local official George Provost conspires to corrupt the world-governing supercomputer DeepRED to his whim, and so become the sole rich man in an otherwise egalitarian society.

The Other Ten Thousand in OG's Speculative Fiction

Fantasy, 725 words [Issue #9] (2007)


The dragon Grimol gets more than he bargained for with his ten-thousand-and-first victim.

New Skin for the Old Ceremony in Hub

Science-fiction / Horror, 4830 words [In Issue #17] (2007)

Off-duty sherriff Mark Dickinson's investigation into a drunkard's claims of an extraterrestrial encounter leads to a bizarre and terrible revelation.

Exodus in Hub

Science-Fiction, 3100 words [In Issue #57] (2008)

Aging widow Adele finds herself in the first wave of refugees from a heavily polluted Earth.

Imaginary Prisons in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction

Fantasy, 2700 words [In Issue #29] (2009)


Prince Corin's quest for his ancestral sword takes a turn for the surreal when he meets the sage Calaphile and discovers that the prophecy he's been following is less unique than he'd imagined.

Friendly in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction

Science-Fiction, 1800 words [In Issue #31] (2009)

The fate of the Earth rests on the result of an inexplicable alien sporting event.

Glass Houses in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction

Science-Fiction, 2100 words, [In Issue #34] (2010)


A scientist defies the secret rulers of the world, and seeks to turn their own most devastating weapon against them.  But can he save himself in time to save humanity?

Devilry At the Hanging Tree Inn in Theaker's Quarterly Fiction

Fantasy, 4100 words [In Issue #37] (2011)


Legend has it that if the fire in the hearth of the Hanging Tree inn should ever burn out then the Devil will burst from the fireplace and run amock,  But until the arrival of a thieving trickster named Jack, that legend's never been put to the test.


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Survivor in Nanoism (2009)

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Thaumatrope (2010)











 
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