Grim

2nd December 2018 · No Comments

“Okay, what’s your problem?” said Sonya, coming to a dead stop on the sidewalk and wheeling around.A tall guy in a black trench coat, five paces behind her, pointed at his chest, looked over his shoulder and then back again. The universal “Who me?”“Don’t come the innocent,” she said. “I clocked you ages ago, been […]

No Excuses Now

19th November 2018 · No Comments

Andrew reached across the workbench and took the axe down from where it hung on the pegboard. He peeled the protective sleeve off its head and regarded the blade, took in how the light glinted on the steel.This would make a great story.Except…He had nowhere to write. He didn’t have a place to call his […]

Mayday Mayday

22nd September 2018 · No Comments

My short stories are what they say on the tin. Short.Sometimes, really short.A few hundred words. Maybe fifteen hundred on a good day.And they are also stories. As in made up.Often I write about creepy, freaky, scary kids.This story is about a kid.But this one is true.It’s about one of my kids.And it’s the scariest […]

The End

1st September 2018 · No Comments

Jesus.They were coming back.Hadn’t they had enough?Didn’t they get tired?I was exhausted, physically and mentally. The last few weeks had left me spent. And yet here they were back to wring the last of my reserves.Their feral eyes glinted in the orange evening light reflected in the fresh puddles. I’d hoped, prayed, the afternoon rain […]