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‘Doctor’s Surgery’ Now Available at Structo Magazine

To round off the year I have a piece of fiction called ‘Doctor’s Surgery’ about to be published in Structo magazine issue #7.

I’ve just received my contributor copies, so it should be available to buy in the next few days from the Structo website or from Rough Trade East in London, The Albion Beatnik in Oxford, good old Cornerhouse in Manchester, the Gallery in Milton Keynes or Shakespeare & Co. in Paris. Or how about a subscription? Structo is a gorgeous magazine chock full of nifty fiction with an interesting newspaper format. A literary and visual treat all rolled into one.

‘Doctor’s Surgery’ is a rather experimental piece. Pure dialogue. No tags. Let me know what you think if you get the chance to have a read. Merry Christmas everyone!

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‘Quarter Cherry Lips’ Now Available Online at Litro Magazine

Today I have a spot of toothache.

This may have been caused by some overzealous crunching on a bag of sour apple cubes I bought on Saturday from my local sweetshop.

This is perhaps rather ironic given that my story ‘Quarter Cherry Lips’ is now available over at the Litro Magazine website as part of their ‘Food’ issue. So if you like your sweetshops with a hint of the sinister just grab some pennies and your stab vest and head on over there.

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cutaway

Today I get to help pull the lever on a project I’ve been working on for the last few months with writing buddy Dave Schofield. This project is a new literary magazine called cutaway.

We will be open to submissions from the 1st January 2012 through to 1st March 2012 and the magazine will be published in May or June 2012. We will blog regular updates via the cutaway website and you can also find us on Facebook and Twitter.

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‘Silver Sixpence’ Now Online at DSF

Very quick post because I’ve gone on about this far too much already. My short story ‘Silver Sixpence’ is now available to read online for free at Daily Science Fiction. This story started out at a themed writing evening for a local writing group here in Standish. This is very much a science-fiction story, but it also features a character-led plot focusing on the effects that space travel might have on family relationships: i.e. those that are left behind.

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Three Weddings and a Funeral

OK, bad news first. As you may have already heard, Murky Depths magazine has decided to shut up shop. My short story ‘Whisperer’ was published in Murky Depths earlier this year in their #17 issue. Quite possibly a number of different reasons for this (economic climate etc.) but I’m going to huff about the lack of interest in the short story format in the UK. Seems the US are much more accepting of the short story format in both the genre and non-genre worlds. Very sad.

But on with the good news . . .
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