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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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I really liked the structure
Posted on Fri, 06 Oct 2017
I really liked the structure and flow of this, Rhiannon. It reads very well. There are some bizarre interpretations of all sorts of things out there. Whatever one's own particular religious views, some of the conspiracy and end-of-world...
Read full commentPosted in False Announcements!
Great that this appeared on
Posted on Thu, 28 Sep 2017
Great that this appeared on National Poetry Day - it is a great poem. I'm doing a course at the moment on 'creative non-fiction' - which turns out to be a lot more complicated than making 'what I did on my holidays' more interesting - and this...
Read full commentPosted in Flying Ops
Our homes really do contain
Posted on Sun, 24 Sep 2017
Our homes really do contain the layers of our lives. I loved this. So visual, and also a ghostly feeling of the hidden past. Great writing.
Read full commentPosted in DIY
Really liked this, Rhiannon.
Posted on Mon, 18 Sep 2017
Really liked this, Rhiannon. The rhyming works really well, and parts of it reminded me of riddle poems, which fits in with the idea of the wise owl. It's a wonderful idea, that we could have a wise and perceptive companion who could keep an...
Read full commentPosted in Watch your back!
It's interesting how poems
Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017
It's interesting how poems take different people different ways. I thought it was very clear, but in a very subtle way. I think you have to stay true to your vision, especially as it has struck a chord with a number of readers. That's the...
Read full commentPosted in time travelling
I like the way this shows
Posted on Fri, 01 Sep 2017
I like the way this shows that depression invades all the senses. The description of the grin 'held up with string' is particularly striking and really conveys the mask that people use to disguise the reality. And of course, as you indicate,...
Read full commentPosted in The Dark
Beautiful imagery, and the
Posted on Wed, 23 Aug 2017
Beautiful imagery, and the lilting rhythm goes so well with the subject matter.
Read full commentPosted in Eliza
So much to absorb and think
Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2017
So much to absorb and think about in this, Elsie. I've read it several times, and it poses a lot of questions. I do hope your dad's funeral was what you wanted it to be. The bit about more contact with the family made me smile - all sorts of...
Read full commentPosted in Outcomes of my Dad's recent Funeral in London
Lovely stuff. The bit where
Posted on Fri, 18 Aug 2017
Lovely stuff. The bit where they come in and you want to hear all about it and they just say 'OK' because they're starving - that really made me smile. Always in their own time. The reassurance of everything being as it should be, after a day...
Read full commentPosted in first day in senior school
Really like the way the
Posted on Sun, 13 Aug 2017
Really like the way the relationship between Jack and his dad is so complex - Jack is happy his dad is happier - and more likeable - but sad that he doesn't see him so much. The dad is a very interesting character. Some of the dialogue in the...
Read full commentPosted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down (part 6)
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