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11 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 563894 times
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1070 of my 4,615 comments have been voted Great Feedback with a total of 1166 votes
Hello! I am an old crone who very much enjoys reading SF, urban fantasy and horror. 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. My new website is currently under construction, and you are cordially invited to come and have a peep at the blogs and free stories there. 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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My stories
Temps Perdu
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Opposable Thumbs
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The List
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My Mother And I Agree On Something
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The Restructure Roundel
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Keeping on, doing our best,
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Keeping on, doing our best, is an achievement. Even when it feels like barely, barely keeping head above water. Just keep fucking going indeed.
Thanks for writing this.
Read full commentPosted in 3am
I see he's leapt straight on
Posted on Mon, 27 Jan 2025
I see he's leapt straight on the subject of the Washington plane crash, saying it's all the fault of diversity hiring. No sympathy, empathy or compassion at all.
Read full commentPosted in Ye Mighty
Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
This is our Facebook, X and Bluesky Pick of the Day. Please do share.
Picture by DeFacto, free to use at Wikimedia Commons: https://...
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The question of why people
Posted on Wed, 29 Jan 2025
The question of why people voted for him is fascinating. From a distance it looks like turkeys and Christmas, but obviously it's far more complex than that. I tend to go with the idea that at times of uncertainty and fear, people just want...
Read full commentPosted in The Great Pretender! By Alfred N Muggins
Yes indeed, the words 'Never
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Yes indeed, the words 'Never Again' do ring a little hollow when similar things have been going on for decades all over the world, just not on the same scale or with the same appalling efficiency as happened under the Nazis. I fear that once the...
Read full commentPosted in hiding in plain site
Like others, I was so struck
Posted on Tue, 28 Jan 2025
Like others, I was so struck by 'unpeopled people'. It's a universal phrase. I thought of the people of Gaza, and the Holocaust survivors urging us to never forget, and the 'undocumented migrants' being hunted in The Land Of The Free. And the...
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Thanks for reading, Ed!
Posted on Mon, 27 Jan 2025
Thanks for reading, Ed!
Read full commentPosted in Ye Mighty
Exactly! I read this to my
Posted on Sat, 25 Jan 2025
Exactly! I read this to my feline and she nodded and looked at me (again) as if to say 'Get it now? No? Just get the food out, woman.' She's given up trying to train me.
Read full commentPosted in Feline Frustration
Ingenious! Now you've got me
Posted on Sat, 18 Jan 2025
Ingenious! Now you've got me thinking how great it would have been if these two had actually met. Lovely IP response.
Read full commentPosted in Miss M in Dock Green
I shall never look at that
Posted on Fri, 17 Jan 2025
I shall never look at that gentleman and his ghost walkers in the same way again! Thoroughly enjoyed this, Paul. It's lovely to see the city celebrated properly, unlike the (in my opinion, apologies if it's your kind of thing) dreadful new TV...
Read full commentPosted in The Golden Fleece (Ghost Walk) Part Two of Two
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