Books


Torn Between The Dark And Light
(2023)

A collection of previously published and original science fiction and fantasy short stories. Available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

Contents:
Undercurrents
Tooth Fairies Online
Shift Control Escape: The Sixth Swan Brother
The Universal Soldier
The End Is Not Yet
Satori Must Be Something Just The Same
My Translucent Hands
Ragnarok
An Awkward Phage
Chipwrecked: The Game
The Cape
The Secret Lives Of Plants
The Man From The Realm Of Footy Fan
Jack The Giant Killer
The Irony Fairy: A Comic Script

 
Cornwall Dreaming
(2023)

A novella and short story collection of previously published and original fiction inspired by Cornish legend and landscape.

Available at Amazon in paperback and Kindle.

Contents:
The Dog Who Buried The Sea
Coast To Coast
The Tideline
The Lord's Work
Where Wild Winds Rush
Langarrow

Novellas
Langarrow - Smashwords July 2012.

Short stories
The Dog Who Buried the Sea Flash Fiction Online November 1, 2021 issue #98. Also read by Devin Martin on PodCastle episode 862: Canine Companions October 22, 2024

Jack The Giant Killer - listen and watch on Soundcloud and YouTube February 2019

The Tideline NewMyths.com online June 2018 issue 43; Kindle and print version paperback Passages Autumn 2018. Winner of Readers Choice Award 2018.

The Man From The Realm Of Footy Fan - Gold Dust magazine June 2014 issue 25 and More Nuggets From Gold Dust paperback anthology 2015

Shift Control Escape: The Sixth Swan Brother - listen and watch on Soundcloud and YouTube May 2013

The Monday Rebellion - Dark Horizons, December 2011

Saints Alive - Thaumatrope April 26, 2010

Snake - Thaumatrope March 1, 2010

The Lord's Work - Scheherazade #28, 2005

My Translucent Hands - F/SF anthology (Cyber-Pulp Press), January 2005

The Curse Of The Mobile Screamsaver - Knave 36-13, December 2004 (writing as Ken Leary)

Tooth Fairies On-line - Neo-opsis #4, Fall 2004

Ducking And Diving - Flashquake, Fall 2002

The Secret Lives Of Plants - HMS Beagle #86, September 2000 (translated into Hebrew and reprinted in Israeli SF Society's Fantasia 2000, October 2008). Download free English version here

Satori Must Be Something Just The Same - Interzone #94, April 1995

Undercurrents - Scheherazade #12, 1995. Download free version here

Rapture Of The Deep - Dark Asylum #2, 1995

Fragments Of Unbecoming - Fear, Feb 1991

Chipwrecked - Dream #29, 1991

The Universal Soldier - Fear, August 1990

An Awkward Phage - Practical Computing, January 1985

Laddish lit
A hundred or so short stories along satirical and/or generally laddish lines in various men's magazines in the 1980s and 1990s, including the series: Lew Lurcher. A gonzo journalist perpetually pissed but with the happy knack of stumbling across important things like the truth behind the British meat industry, the poll tax etc - a political and cultural satire  written in 1990 for XS magazine.

Comic strips
The Irony Fairy - Something Wicked #11 November 2015.

We Ran The World - satire on British Empire and 80's Britain. Thirty monthly double-page spreads and a couple of four-page spreads in The Damage between 1989 and 1991.

Judge Smeg - satirical homage to Judge Dredd. Two strips appeared in The Damage Specials of 1989 and 1990.

Poetry
Oak Rite - Touchstone #159, November 2009.