SHORT STORIES

DeskJockey - Future Britains: The Speculative Fiction Anthology, Sol Stories, Oct 2026
Designed to mimic sentient beings, the DeskJockey was a viral hit with children all over the world. That changed when the revolutionary protein scaffolds webbing their chips and wires together mutated. Now the bug-eyed little reprobates threaten to bury Britain beneath a stinking deluge of their own gel-slicked progeny.

Hooked - Aurealis, #185, Oct 2025
In the near future, people are fitted with enormous alien hooks. The alien tech sharpens their minds and lengthens their lives, but makes it difficult to sleep in a traditional bed. This story explores growing up and growing apart, culminating in a grisly scene pulled straight from one of my more unsettling stress dreams.

"A chilling allegory about conformity, dehumanization, and the seductive dangers of technological assimilation..."
- Eric Kimminau, Tangent

Dream Eater for Sale - Tiny Terrors (Spring 2025), Graveside Press, May 2025
Psychological horror about grief and loss, with a bonus nightmare-sucking monster and a dodgy internet witch.

Wormbound - Crawling, Hear Us Scream Press, Sept 2023
Inspired by the putrid experience I had on a beach when my kids were very young. Becoming a parent certainly dulls you to the multiple horrors of tenacious parasites.

The Screaming Harpies - In The Wake of the Kraken, Skullgate Media, Aug 2021

Selected Letters Sent and Received by the Famed Elven Pirates of Scourge Cove During the Second Golden Age - Volume III - In The Wake of the Kraken, Skullgate Media, Aug 2021

A Trip to the Shops - Annihilation Radiation, Storgy, Oct 2020
STORGY Magazine’s Annihilation Radiation Short Story Competition 1st prize winner!

Night Shift at the Triple Crow - Endless Pictures, TL;DR Press, Jun 2020
1,000 Word Herd Flash Fiction Competition 7th place winner!

The Dream Weaver of Wolfsbane Lane - Kyanite Press Journal of Speculative Fiction, Vol. 2, Autumn 2019

The Undead Alliance: Part 1: zombies_anonymous.com, Twisted Tongue Magazine, Issue 10, May 2008
The Undead Alliance: Part 2: Viva la Alliance, Twisted Tongue Magazine, Issue 10, May 2008
The Undead Alliance: Part 3: Who Would Ever Love a Zombie, Twisted Tongue Magazine, Issue 11, August 2008
The Undead Alliance: Part 4: The Undead Revolution, Twisted Tongue Magazine, Issue 12, November 2008