Short Fiction, stories, Writing

Unnatural Order Anthology Release

Iโ€™m delighted to announce the release on 31st December, 2020 of speculative fiction anthology Unnatural Order by CSFG. This is a fascinating collection of stories inspired by the monstrous, unnatural and the fantastic. Featuring my own story "The Bargain", a tale of Fae guardians and the bargains struck to assure the equilibrium between the nature,… Continue reading Unnatural Order Anthology Release

Short Fiction, stories, Writing

Greed Anthology Release

Iโ€™m excited to announce the release on December 27th, 2020 of Greed (Seven Deadly Sins, #5) published by Black Hare Press featuring my story โ€œA Handful of Dead Leaves.โ€ This dark speculative fiction anthology on the theme of greed, a desire for material wealth or gain, ignoring the realm of the spiritual. Featuring my short… Continue reading Greed Anthology Release

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Iceland’s Yule Trolls

In Icelandic tradition, the Yule lads are thirteen trolls who arrive, one one each of the 13 days before Christmas then depart in the order they arrived, on the subsequent days following Christmas Day. On Christmas Eve, the troll witch Gryla, leaves the mountains to enter the city, seeking any children who had been ill-behaved… Continue reading Iceland’s Yule Trolls

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Forthcoming: Horror Anthology

Pleased to announce my next psychological horror short story "The Monster" will feature in Gluttony (Seven Deadly Sins, #6) to be published in 2021 by Black Hare Press! All short fiction in the anthology is inspired by the theme of gluttony "an inordinate desire to consume more than that which one requires." Gluttony (Seven Deadly… Continue reading Forthcoming: Horror Anthology

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The Wendigo & Dark Fiction

Another of my recent work-in-progress short fiction pieces, has been a dark fiction story inspired by wendigo psychosis an unusual form of โ€˜cultural psychosisโ€™ specific to First Nations peoples of Canadian-North American Great Lakes regions where belief in a supernatural being, the wendigo, provides a unique cultural framework for a psychosis. This psychosis has specific… Continue reading The Wendigo & Dark Fiction

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Blood of Elves

From the Blurb: "For over a century, humans, dwarves, gnomes, and elves have lived together in relative peace. But times have changed, the uneasy peace is over, and now the races are fighting once again. The only good elf, it seems, is a dead elf. Geralt of Rivia, the cunning assassin known as the Witcher,… Continue reading Blood of Elves

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Black Sun

From the Blurb: โ€œA god will returnWhen the earth and sky convergeUnder the black sun. In the holy city of Tova, the winter solstice is usually a time for celebration and renewal, but this year it coincides with a solar eclipse, a rare celestial event proscribed by the Sun Priest as an unbalancing of the… Continue reading Black Sun

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Storm of Locusts

From the Blurb: โ€œItโ€™s been four weeks since the bloody showdown at Black Mesa, and Maggie Hoskie, Dinรฉ monster hunter, is trying to make the best of things. Only her latest bounty hunt has gone sideways, sheโ€™s lost her only friend, Kai Arviso, and sheโ€™s somehow found herself responsible for a girl with a strange… Continue reading Storm of Locusts

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The Only Good Indians

From the Blurb: "Ten years ago, four young men shot some elk then went on with their lives. It happens every year; it's been happening forever; it's the way it's always been. But this time it's different. Ten years after that fateful hunt, these men are being stalked themselves. Soaked with a powerful gothic atmosphere,… Continue reading The Only Good Indians

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Poisoned Fruit & Cursed Futures

I recently finished writing a short fiction piece inspired by poisoned apple folklore and legends, the most familiar being the story "Little Snow-White" published by Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm in Children's' and Household Tales (commonly known as Grimm's Fairy Tales) between 1812-1814 . There are, of course, countless folklore and folktales surrounding betrayals and murder… Continue reading Poisoned Fruit & Cursed Futures