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11 collections on the site.
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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
Pad Life 8: Protect Our Way Of Life
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Pad Life 7: A Submission and Three Falls
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Scream
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Pad Life 6: The Elephant In The Room
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Tower of Strength Part 1 of 4
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There have been times when I
Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020
There have been times when I've felt just like that. It's a bit like when there's an eclipse of the sun, and you know it's going to come back, but then it takes longer than you thought and somewhere deep inside you a little prehistoric creature...
Read full commentPosted in Locked
I hope your kind narrator
Posted on Tue, 31 Mar 2020
I hope your kind narrator bought shares in Andrex. Really enjoyed this.
Read full commentPosted in The Stranger In The Pub
Completely echo Drew's
Posted on Sun, 15 Mar 2020
Completely echo Drew's comment. I love hearing writers read their work, it always brings an extra dimension to it. And no ashtrays heard here, either!
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I did like your list of
Posted on Thu, 05 Mar 2020
I did like your list of apocalypse threats that we have all survived! As you say, we shall get through this one too. As far as I understand it, it isn't that this virus is hyper-deadly, it's just that it's new so no-one has had a chance to...
Read full commentPosted in The Coronavirus.
Another great episode, Penny.
Posted on Sun, 13 Oct 2019
Another great episode, Penny. The trees were my favourite bit too. Trees are indeed the guardians of our world.
I really like the way, in this story, kindness given brings kindness back. It's a lovely message.
Read full commentPosted in "The Trouble with Magical Beings" (A Fantasy) Chapter 9
I'm with you on this one.
Posted on Wed, 02 Oct 2019
I'm with you on this one. The only place grey looks magnificent is on an elephant.
Read full commentPosted in Fifty Shades of Shade
A beautiful image, sitting
Posted on Sun, 12 May 2019
A beautiful image, sitting making music under a tree. All your pieces have the ability to make the reader feel both the permanence of the surroundings, and the impermanence of the people, particularly the narrator, within them. Our narrator is...
Read full commentPosted in Under the pines and the power lines
As well as the wonderful
Posted on Thu, 09 May 2019
As well as the wonderful descriptions you get in these poems, they are always so well constructed, so that the way the words are used, as much as the words themselves, help the reader to see what you see. Another beauty, Rhiannon.
Read full commentPosted in Transfixed!
I really enjoyed this, and
Posted on Fri, 03 May 2019
I really enjoyed this, and then reading about the background to it made it even more poignant. What a wonderful memorial to your relative.
Read full commentPosted in 1944 (12miles south of Spa Belgium)
I am Delilah, and this is
Posted on Sun, 26 Aug 2018
I am Delilah, and this is being typed by the servant of myself and Zsa Zsa. I have a new game for Omar. Get your local vet to put either you or Mitsie on special expensive food that only the one of you is supposed to have, and then swap bowls...
Read full commentPosted in Omar's Diary - Sunday 26th August 2018
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