Most of the writing I’ve done so far has been in the form of short stories. I guess it’s best to start small and work up from there, so here are the few short stories that I have finished. For each one you read here, there are maybe four or five in the ideas stage and maybe two or three that sit on my hard drive with the first page written but nothing else. I write very slowly (some times a year and a half to finish a story). It’s not that I spend hours agonizing over each word it’s just that I don’t feel inspired to write that often. Not a good way to make a living as an author, I know, which is why I find the annual Nanaowrimo and script frenzy challenges so good for me, I can’t worry about feeling inspired, I have to just write!
Below you’ll find a bit about the story, written in true cover ‘blurb’ style (so it may not have much to do with the story at all!). Below this there are links to a short introduction and a much longer after word, giving the back ground to the story, when I wrote it, why I wrote it etc. etc.
Datascape
When Harry Morrison’s old college friend, Dr. Alan Marshal invites him to try a state of the art, soon to be declassified virtual reality system, he jumps at the chance. However some thing happens and they find them selves caught in a web of conspiracy and are soon under attack form a totally unexpected direction…
Alone
8 years ago the final weapon was used and it ended both the last war and what was left of civilisation. Since that day one of the survivors has worked on a way to end the loneliness. He is almost done now and some will have a companion again. But will this be the solution he hoped for?
Life’s edge
After a serious road accident Martin Mansfield has a near death experience, but some thing other than a heavenly paradise lurks at the end of this corridor of light. After recovering strange things start happening. Who is the stranger that wants Martin to follow him. And what are the horrifying creatures that hide at lives edge.
The Monastery
A young gatherer in a mountain top monastery wonders what the cleansing is and why no one can remember it. Such thoughts are forbidden, but after a strange encounter in the library this is the least of his problems.
The Merlin Artifice
The Vale of Avalon had been invaded by beast men. The strongest of tribe must make it to Merlins cave to ask for help. But nothing could have prepared him for what he finds there
Machines
What are the huge machines that some time prey on people living simple, medieval lives? Who made them and why? These are questions that have probably never been asked. Maybe the technomancers know, but they aren’t telling any one. Artemis had never thought of asking such questions, until one day a machine crashes close to the village.
Bus Station
2 am in the morning is a strange time. It’s a time when right thinking people should be asleep. Bus stations are places where strange people seem to collect, so 2 am in a bus station is going to be weird. But things shouldn’t be this odd!
