writing
writing · 12. April 2022
I can finally make my professors proud of me, as I have a story in a real live literary magazine. Takahe 104 is out today, including my story Burning Bright, featuring a tiger :-)
writing · 18. January 2022
My first story of the year is up at Daily Science Fiction. Commuting envisages a future London where the problems caused by climate change are solved...for a price.
writing · 21. December 2021
I thought I was done for the year, but I've had a couple of stories come out this week. The first is one of my favorites. Breath is about a girl who makes clockwork automatons, activated with a dying breath, and her sword-slinging girlfriend. And my climate change story about an old woman and her goat, Grass Still Grows has been collected in Little Blue Marble's anthology, Tipping Points available now as an e-book.
writing · 31. October 2021
Stan had never given much thought to what shape his afterlife might take. Now that he was stuck haunting the rhubarb patch at the bottom of the garden, he wished he'd been more careful... My first ghost story, 'My Left Leg' and first UK publication comes out today in Monnath Books' Beyond the Grave anthology
writing · 01. September 2021
If full length horror is too much for you, perhaps you should try micro fiction. The 666 Anthology serves up hundreds of delicious bleeding morsels of horror. You won't be able to stop at just one.... Oh, and I wrote a couple of them.
writing · 16. July 2021
My cli-fi story, Grass Still Grows, set in a future Christchurch, has been reprinted by Little Blue Marble.
writing · 07. July 2021
I've never really been sure if I believed in ghosts, but something happened a few days after my mother died that made me wonder. I wrote a short story about it: https://www.mumlifestories.com/happy-birthday-a-short-story/
writing · 06. July 2021
Short stories seldom get reviewed, so I was delighted to find Charles Payseur has reviewed my recent story Breath during his monthly roundup at Quick Sip Reviews. His comments: "And the piece is cute and heavy, unfolding in a place ripe with corruption and touched by tragedy. But the story refuses to let these things define it, reaching for freedom and happiness and love in an interesting and fantastic way. I love the romance and world building, and it’s an amazing read! "
writing · 04. June 2021
The latest issue of Prismatica is out, just in time for Pride, and I have a story in it: Breath.
writing · 15. February 2021
According to surveys, the New Zealand accent is considered one of the sexiest in the world. Listening to recordings of myself, I find that hard to believe. Anyway, the talented Todd Sullivan has been interviewing short story writers about their writing process. You can listen to his interview with me about the writing of my story Night Fishing on Youtube.