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11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 676747 times
and 203 of my stories have been cherry picked.
1124 of my 4,702 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1229 votes
I write all sorts, some of it SF, urban fantasy and horror, a lot of it not. Sometimes I can even be funny, so I'm told. My short stories have appeared in the anthologies 'Cold Iron: Ghost Stories from the 21st Century' (Iron Press) and 'Science Fiction For Survival: An Archive For Mars' (Valley Press), as well as in magazines ranging from the literary magazine 'Dreamcatcher' to 'Writing Magazine' and 'The People's Friend' (the latter definitely not SF, urban fantasy or horror). I do regular local spoken word events, and needless to say there is a novel on the go. Do come and have a peep at the blogs, stories and audio at https://www.janeayrie.com - you can even go mad and sign up for my newsletter! Plus the usual social media stuff. All details below. Thanks for dropping in! (Oh, the picture is of my highly critical personal editor.)
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Pick of the Day
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
This is our brilliant social media Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can.
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
This is great, Harry. The
Posted on Wed, 25 Feb 2026
This is great, Harry. The place and the people just come alive. Wonderful piece of writing.
Read full commentPosted in 5. Secondhand Prose
Pick of the Day
Posted on Sat, 14 Feb 2026
This beautiful and moving poem is our social media Pick of the Day. Please do share if you can.
Read full commentPosted in I’m alive
These stories are great.
Posted on Sat, 31 Jan 2026
These stories are great. Honestly, if you'd have told me, before I read them, that I'd be remotely interested in a bunch of kids working out their assorted manoeuvres, I'd have been sceptical, but these stories are so full of life and humanity....
Read full commentPosted in The Less Miserables Enter a Contest (3)
This is a wonderful, multi
Posted on Thu, 29 Jan 2026
This is a wonderful, multi-layered poem. Definitely one to reread - several times. It's good to remember we're only a snack, then we don't have to feel remotely guilty about telling the world to go f*** itself every so often. It definitely won't...
Read full commentPosted in Chewy and Exhausting
Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2026
This completely factual bit of reportage is our social media Pick of the Day! Please share if you can!
Image uploaded by author, free to use at FreePik. (The gnomes are paranoid about copyright, so they check an image's source if not...
Read full commentPosted in The Gnomes of ABC
Fascinating, Luigi. I am off
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2026
Fascinating, Luigi. I am off to find out more about this gentleman!
I would imagine that working in a Travel Agents would be quite a rich source of interesting stories!
Read full commentPosted in Relatively Speaking
I really liked the fluidity
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2026
I really liked the fluidity of time in this - I wasn't sure if he'd done it, was going to do it, or was dreaming about it, which made the ending even more emotional. The details - clothing, the wife's bedtime routine - made the setting so...
Read full commentPosted in The Devil’s Bridge
OK then, who smuggled you
Posted on Tue, 27 Jan 2026
OK then, who smuggled you into the catacombs?? Those gnomes would have had you on tea and biscuit duty for eternity if they'd spotted you.
Wonderful audio as well. This has really brightened an absolutely horrible, grey, soggy day. Thank...
Read full commentPosted in The Gnomes of ABC
Great use of an object to
Posted on Tue, 20 Jan 2026
Great use of an object to tell not one but many stories. There's always something lurking at the back of a cupboard which tells a tale greater than itself. Loved the other touches about the contents of the cupboard. Brought a rueful smile here.
Read full commentPosted in Ambre Solaire
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