Fiction

Here’s where you can find some of my fiction. It’s all free, so you get what you pay for…but if you like it, feel free to share the link with others.

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Somewhere Down the River

My first ‘bought for money’ story…something for Halloween.


Earning Wings

A short story in Script Form. Originally from the collection ‘Off Script’. A meeting on a bridge at night…


The Boot

A short story in Script Form. Originally from the collection ‘Off Script’. The perils of the Car Boot Sale…


Male Fraud

A short story in Script Form. Originally from the collection ‘Off Script’. A serial liar chances fate.


The Accident Call

A short story in Script Form. Originally from the collection ‘Off Script’. A man gets a nuisance call…


My Brother Bobby

This story about a new baby’s arrival was taken from my self-published collection of YA Horror/ Suspense/ Sc-Fi and Twist in the Tale stories.

Cover of book Cellar Stories featuring a line drawing of a doorway and steps leaving down

An Oxford Christmas Crime

This one was a six-hour story challenge I put out asking for prompts and came up with a short story for the festive season.


The Night of the Tittynope

Another prompt exercise: written for Halloween. An EC inspired over the top spooky crime story

Picture of an empty child's bed

Cover of book Cellar Stories featuring a line drawing of a doorway and steps leaving down

The Chicken Run

Another short from the YA collection Cellar Stories – This one’s about a gang induction… with a difference.


Number Seven

A short story from my first (now out-of-print0 collection ‘Basement Tales’. This serial killer POV story was one of my first published pieces many years ago.

Cover picture for Basement Tales

You Could Make a Killing - release date October 17th. Art work by Nicola Young

Adventures in Babysitting

Another EC inspired cartoony dark crime/ horror. This one originally appeared in

You Could Make a Killing – a now out-of-print short story collection.


Bad Treatment

A silly little short about a talented but frustrated writer. It’s all about the original ideas…


The Trick of Treat Perspective

Another crime cum Halloween tale. Just a boy and his dad enjoying the holiday season…right?


Another Tale from the Squad Car

I wrote a couple of short dialogues featuring a chalk and cheese cop pairing in You Could Make a Killing.. .here’s another one.


You Could Make a Killing - release date October 17th. Art work by Nicola Young

Packing for Goodbye

This was one I thought about including in You Could Make a Killing, but it didn’t really fit. Read it and you might see why.


Flying in for the Holidays

This was a festive challenge for the now defunct Blue Murder magazine. I can’t remember what the words that had to be included were, but they’ll probably stand out…


Photoshopped image of a bleeding apple

An Apple a Day

This was my very first published short story – in Quantum Muse. I still have the t-shirt. Even if it’s so faded you can’t make anything out on it.


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