CategoryShort Stories

I only went and bloody won something! ‘Transition Town Worthing‘ held a competition to imagine Worthing in 2030 and how energy would affect life in the town. A near future story based in Worthing? That’s my niche! It would be rude if I didn’t enter. Click here to read my entry – ‘From The Sea, Plenty‘

Here’s another short story I wrote a couple of years ago that’s picked up a few rejections along the way. It’s an actual, full-monty, sci-fi story in space. I like the anthropomorphising of planets in it. The idea of life coming from distant planets and not evolving by itself here is something I’ve never forgotten from a Star Trek

This is another short story I wrote which gained a few rejections. I initially wrote it for an alternative fairy tale competition. I still quite like it but realise it’s more of a vent against bankers than a ‘pure story’ and now it’s probably a bit dated for anyone to publish it. So here it

I thought I’d get involved in Chuck Wendig’s flash fiction competition, 100 words on the theme ‘revenge’. Editing this to the bare bones to meet the word count proved harder than vomitting forth the first draft, so here it is… Mr Kingston sat coiled in his chair, scrutinising Mr Harris at the podium, “Thank you,

The second victim of my ‘5 strikes and you’re out‘ rule for short story submissions but i’m walking this one because it’s only faced 3 pitches.  I like the idea behind it but I don’t think the execution has been particularly well done. Anyway, let me know what you think, how you’d rewrite it and

A momentous day! My first ever publication! 365 Tomorrows have published ‘Turning a Frontier into a Home’ which is more of a flash fiction story as it’s only about 350 words. It was originally written for a competition by ‘New Scientist‘ who wanted flash stories ‘about the world 100 years from now‘. So go check

This is the first victim of my ‘5 strikes and you’re out‘ rule for short story submissions. The fifth rejection was a very pleasant one but it commended the submission cover letter and rejected the actual story, not a great sign to be honest. This was originally written for the Writing Magazine ‘Seance’ competition in