Hello, here I am, squirreling away a quiet moment while I drop asleep at the office. Rain isn’t here, but it’s due, and I feel delightfully slow and sleepy while it brews. A couple of weeks ago I project hopped to a story called The Lightning Heartbeat – and mentioned how it wore many masks,…
One of the biggest miseries I inflicted on myself over the last couple of years came from a steadily nurtured guilt over unfinished projects, perhaps in a misguided attempt to gain ‘control’ over my work and, as a byproduct, myself. I desired willpower, or the illusion of it, but more than anything I wanted to…
It is I, a whisper, returning from an extended, mostly unplanned hiatus from the writing sphere. Not that I haven’t been writing, I have (shock! horror!) as you’ll soon learn in snippets; but the drive I discovered in 2019/2020, where I actually dared submit some work, took an absolute battering from the drudgery of social…
We aren’t going to talk about how late this is. We aren’t going to speak about how this was two years ago. We are not going to acknowledge how I am always disastrously late to everything and move on, so I can have some semblance of consistency on my blog and have a post for…
There are places in the world which blur and fuzz when your attention strays toward them—places which can only be seen out of the corner of your eye. They are everywhere around us: lurking behind the door-left-ajar, shifting in the dimly-lit mirror, phasing in and out of both dream and memory. These interstitial domains are…
Each limb tells a story. Every organ shares a secret. Have you brushed up on your anatomy lately? As always, I am unfashionably late and constantly waylaid when trying to update anything, anywhere. But in May, Welcome to Your Body: Lessons in Evisceration was pulled from the viscera and put under the microscope to inform…
Happy Book Birthday, Collage Macabre! Our exhibition of art horror has finally opened its doors. Are you excited? You should be. The anthology is now available to purchase via Amazon, both on Kindle and Paperback. Follow the below links to grab yourself a copy. Click here to order. Click here to order, but the UK…
Hello, my lovely little experiments. Hex-Periments, A Dark Biotech Anthology is now LIVE. My quiet horror piece What the Waves Return, a tale yet again indulging in my fascination with ocean dwellers, will be hiding somewhere in these pages, surrounded by other fantastic stories. When dark science and mal-intent splice with the otherworldly, such hex-periments…
Hello lovely, I arrive offering more good news for February! Ghost Orchid Press have just released their Hundred Word Horror Anthology, based on the theme of Home. One hundred stories and poems. One hundred words each. Contributed by a diverse group of authors from across the globe, these tiny terrors run the full gamut of…
Hello lovelies, At last, February is here! Women in Horror month has begun, and therefore I can announce that Kandisha Press have released the third instalment of their women in horror anthology series. THE ONE THAT GOT AWAY I’m delighted to have a short story included in this lovely anthology, sharing space with some amazing…