Writing Highlights
I’ve put together a selection of my favourite pieces of writing. Click through the samples below to read the stories in their entirety and feel free to get in touch to learn more about me and to discuss any works or projects.
Static
He wondered whether anyone remembered that he was up here. He wondered whether anyone was left who would care. Every time he looked out of the window the view was new and yet also somehow worse than before. There had been a family down there, all of his own, but now he didn't know if they were still there to miss him as badly as he missed them. The loneliness was becoming a problem.
Samaritan
There was quite a storm brewing the night the call came through. I was spending Friday night the way I'd become accustomed to spending it; delivered pizza on my pyjama-clad legs and a crappy action movie on the TV. When my house phone rang I knew the call wasn’t intentional. No one dialled that number on purpose. Even the telesales people had given up trying. The phone rang and rang and I just stared at it. I'd almost forgotten that it could even do that. I begrudgingly sat aside my pizza and crossed the room to the phone. Casting one look back at my dinner, rapidly cooling on the sofa, I answered the call.
With So Many Sagas in the World...
A Short Story Collection
With So Many Sagas in the World... is a collection of thirty short stories featuring tales of love, loss, heroes, villains, triumph and sacrifice, all in delightfully bite-sized chunks. Opening with a story telling of a character's first step into a new world and finishing with a man at the end of the world that we knew, the stories range from 300 to 2100 words. There are enough thousand-page tomes in the world anyway, don't you think?
“Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind, is written large in his works.”