Below is a list of my general fiction stories.
Last Train to Tassenmere - Published in ST15, the Summer 2009 issue of Supernatural Tales, and to be serialised for the Gateshead talking newspaper Focus.
At Steepdean Halt - Published in the September 2008 issue of the Ranfurly Review
The Car Outside - click here to read - The tiniest thing can jog a memory, and sometimes you wonder why you might be thinking of something in particular at a certain time. Perhaps there are reasons for the ways in which old memories find us again.
Spireclaw - click here to read - All the time we are surrounded by coincidences. Some we pay a second thought to and then forget about them. Some fill us with wonder. Some we never even notice. But there are some which can scare us. When Kieran Whyteleafe starts to see little coincidences happening around him he decides to investigate their meaning. The coincidences seem to centre around the word Spireclaw. Why does the word keep appearing in places only meant for Kieran's eyes? Is it connected to the suicide of his old school friend? And what is the significance of the archive boxes that turn up mysteriously at his work. Kieran's desire to solve some of the puzzles that surround him has pitched him on a trajectory of discovery, and his investigations will culminate in a revelation that is too shocking for him to comprehend.
Tolerating Regis - click here to read - When a load of young twenty-somethings drop everything and sneak away from London to Scotland to surprise a friend for his birthday, the most volatile of them all, Regis (nickname Bognor) continuously draws surreal and embarrassing situations to himself. There's a lot of alcohol, drugs and general messing around. But one of them has a secret, and it's revelation could change the way certain people view themselves and others in the group.
