Long before my first novel was published I cut my teeth writing short stories. I still write them, when time permits. Below is a list of my published short and flash fiction, along with the dates and venues they first appeared in.
1. Flesh and Metal – Dream Magazine #10, March 1987
2. Take 2 – New Moon Quartertly #2, September 1987
3. A Flash of Lightning – Dream Magazine #14, November 1987
4. Perilous Greetings – Dream Quarterly #16, Summer 1988
5. The Third Nexus – NewCon3 website, July 2005
6. Not a Moment to Swoon – Afterburn SF, May 2006
7. Peeling an Onion – Forgotten Worlds #3, July 2006
8. The Key – Nature, 31st August 2006
9. It’s About Time! – Time Pieces (NewCon Press) Nov. 2006
10. The Laughter of Ghosts – Glorifying Terrorism (Rackstraw Press) February 2007
11. A Hint of Mystery – Hub #4, 27th April 2007
12. Knowing How to Look – Tower of Light #1, 1st June 2007
13. A Piratical Sabbatical – Nature, 12th July 2007
14. One Night in London – Fusion Fragment #2, 13th July 2007
15. The Hiss of Death – Afterburn SF, 16th July 2007
16. The Gift of Joy – TQR, 17th October 2007
17. The Heroic Acts of Strangers – Visionary Tongue #23, 3rd January 2008
18. Coffee Break – Hub #43, 28th January 2008
19. Hanging on Her Every Word – Beneath the Surface (Shroud Publishing) 30th Jan 2008
20. Dark Child – Oddlands Magazine, 1st March 2008
21. Sum of the Past – Fictitious Force, April 2008
22. Of Lions and Princes – Sorcerous Signals, July 2008
23. The Gun – Speculative Realms (Speculative Realms Press) August 2008
24. Gossamer – New Horizons #2, January 2009
25. The Assistant – Solaris Book of New SF 3 (Solaris) Feb 2009
26. Royal Flush – Escape Velocity #4, March 2009
27. Captain Bleak’s Parrot – Pantechnicon #9, 29th March 2009
28. Walking the Dog – Bards and Sages, April 2009
29. In Fear of Fog – The Gift of Joy, April 2009
30. Glitch in the System – The Gift of Joy, April 2009
31. Ghosts in the Machine The Gift of Joy April 2009
32. The Final Hour – The Gift of Joy, April 2009
33. The Battle for Paradise – The Gift of Joy, April 2009
34. Shop Talk – Warrior Wisewoman 2 (Norilana Press) 1st June 2009
35. Digital Democracy – The Human Genre Project, 22nd July 2009
36. The Outsider – Under the Rose (Norilana Press) 1st October 2009
37. Morphs – In Bad Dreams II: Where Death Stalks (Eneit) October 2009
38. Growing Pains – Hub #101, 19th October 2009
39. The Abomination of Beauty – The Bitten Word (NewCon Press) March 2010
40. Smöergan’s Bane – Anniversaries (NewconPress) 8th May 2010
41. These Boots Weren’t Made for Walking – Shoes, Ships and Cadavers (NewCon Press) 20th October 2010
42. A Game of Chicken – The Sixty (Immanion Press) 22 April 2011
43. No Smoke Without Fire – Fables from the Fountain (NewCon Press) 22 April 2011
44. Piano Song – Scenes from the Second Storey (Morrigan Books) 10 Nov 2011
45. Devil in the Details – Vivisepulture (Anarchy Press) 6 Dec 2011
46. Don’t Listen – Hauntings (NewCon) 30th June 2012
47. The Golds – Crossroads (Jurassic London) 27 August 2012
48. Eros for Annabelle – Nature 16th January 2013
49. Hobbies – Growing Pains (PS Publishing) 29th March 2013
50. A Question of Timing – Growing Pains (PS Publishing) 29th March 2013
51. Know Your Place – BFS Journal August 2013
52. Default Reactions – Urban Mythic (Alchemy Press) October 2013
53. Return to Arden Falls – Legends (NewCon Press) October 2013
54. Without a Hitch – End of the Road (Solaris) December 2013
55. Wourism – Galaxy’s Edge 1st September 2014
56. Trending – Daily Science Fiction 13th November 2014
57. Ben and Bones – Holdfast March 2015
58. Whatsa Mata – Chip Shop Horrors (Knightswatch) May 2015
59. Sharkadelic – Shark Punk (Snowbooks) May 2015
60. Easy to Imagine – Breakout (PS Publishing) November 2015
61. It’s a Small World – Kzine #14, January 23rd 2016
62. Montpellier – Galaxy’s Edge, 1st March 2016
63. Reaper’s Rose – Nightmare Magazine, 4th April 2016
64. Browsing – Nature, 26th May 2016
65. Dark Pages – Barcelona Tales (NewCon Press) November 2016
66. The Failsafe – Explorations: Colony (Woodbridge Press) October 2017
67. La Medialuna de la Yin Y el Yang – Windumanoth #3 (Spanish Language) May 2018
68. Between Blood and Bone – Daily Science Fiction, 20th June 2018
69. The Final Fable – 2001: An Odyssey in Words (NewCon Press) July 2018
70. The Yin Yang Crescent – Stupefying Stories #22, 26th November 2018
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