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Books: Falling into the Five Senses anthology

My most recent (and proudest) achievement is my self-published Falling into the Five Senses: An Anthology of Short Stories. 


The antho is an eclectic mix of stories on each of the five senses. The stories range from lyrical to horrorfying, with hints of grizzliness to dollops of fabulist magical realism, and laced with steampunk and mystery, for good measure. 

I'm very proud of this antho. It was an online collaboration with three other amazing authors I had the good fortune to meet on Twitter:
Maria Carvalho: on Amazon and Twitter
Cedrix E. Clarke: on Amazon and Twitter
Roger Jackson: on Amazon and Twitter

We each wrote a story on each of the five senses. Our interpretations are as different as they could possibly be, and the antho is all the most fantastic for it! Check out their other writings on Amazon and visit them on Twitter. They are each definitely worth a read!


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Magazine and Online Submissions

'No Through Road', The Siren's Call eZine, Issue 21, June 2015, Special Issue on eco-horror. 
(I'm on page 15!)

I had the 31 December 2016 (not sure about the year!) story in Paragraph Planet's 75-word flash fiction daily story. I did take a screenshot of it, and will add it here when I find it. One day.


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Early projects: 200-Word Tuesdays
My focus is on the first year's stories, January 2015-January 2016. 

I started 200WT on a separate blog in 2015, and then handed over the reins to some other lovely online folk who moved it to a different home and ran it for a few more years until it folded in 2019(-ish?)
I kept a copy of the stories I curated during that inaugural year. When I find my copies, my aim to compile them into a collection and give them a home here. 


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