Short Stories
The following short stories have been published, and are available to buy from the respective publisher, ebook store, or in many cases can be read online for free. Sometimes I don’t keep this page quite as up to date as I would like, so I apologize if I’ve missed anything.
Don’t Forget Your Dreams Between the Stars
“Before me was a great window, which had been placed with due consideration so that my last view in this life, was the Earth. She shone before me, white melding with blue and dispersing to reveal green, such a pure marble, solid and delicate. The collage of water, vegetation air and life called to me.
Her dark half was the shining lights of a distant, but most welcome city. She was an imperfect sphere, but from my last vantage point, she bore a perfection of geometry above all else and not without a great deal of tension, did I place myself upon that bed, where I would be put to death, for my crimes.
The tension was short lived, and a shot to my arm administered by the ship’s doctor soon lulled my mind into a harmonious state. I felt the smooth satin material below me as I lay my body flat. I felt myself sinking into it and I gazed at the well-lit white of the ceiling, its brightness soothing me. All thoughts of pain or death were swept from my mind, replaced with contentment; I would experience la petite mort, the little death, but I would have the luxury of resurrection. ”
Published by Bewildering Stories, which is a superb zine and contains a lot of good stories. ‘Don’t Forget Your Dreams Between the Stars’ can be read online here:
http://www.bewilderingstories.com/issue287/dreams1.html
Memories are Portable
Memories are Portable is a work of flash fiction which I am particularly fond of. Published in issue 3 of 10×10x10, which sadly may be the last issue, but is a great zine all the same.
http://www.kcoldiron.com/10×10x10/latest.html
Folding Infinity
Published by Stonehedge Publishing of Alabama, Folding Infinity is a bundle containing the following short stories:
Mistaken (Thriller)
A Last Wish (Literary)
Loyalty Comes at a Price (Thriller)
Beside the Balcony (Murder Mystery)
No More Than Two (Speculative)
The House of Childhood Memories (Literary)
The Whispers Before the Scream (Speculative, Novelette)
Folding Infinity (Speculative, Flash).
Buy Folding Infinity at Mobipocket.com
Buy Folding Infinity at Fictionwise.com
Loyalty comes at a price
RS Publishing of Australia have published my short story “Loyalty comes at a price” in ebook format. Follow female assassin, Katie Song, into Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where she must meet with a “business associate”. However things are not quite that simple, and she will be forced to reexamine her own feelings about loyalty. Don’t worry though; our darling Katie, is, as always, dressed to kill…
See RS Publishing’s website for more details; http://www.rspublishing.com.au/
Apotheosis
This is a tale of boundless power alloted accidentally to just a normal guy, while the mysterious Apotheosis mechanism has demons chasing him and Gods vying for his alignment with them. It is a tale of the hidden black ocean of lies under the surface of our every day world. Nothing is as it seems.
See RS Publishing’s website for more details; http://www.rspublishing.com.au/
Birdsong
Birdsong is the story of a boy who goes through past life regression, and learns something amazing about who he was in a previous life.
Published in issue #1 of peccary magazine. You can read it online here:
http://www.peccarymagazine.5u.com/issue1.html
The Unregistered Daydreamer
Far off in a distant galaxy they worked, creating a device that would put our greatest particle colliders to shame - a device that ringed their entire solar system. Alas their device destroyed them, and almost destroys us, and in the broken space we inhabit only the daydreamers can save us.
Appears in Forgotten Worlds, Issue #9
http://www.forgotten-worlds.co.uk/
Dr Razamuth
After a fall from the top of a building a girl struggles with amnesia, but the merciless killer who murdered her boyfriend and chased her to the roof from which she fell is in the very hospital where she is recovering.
Published in ‘Write Out Loud’ and excellent anthology of Malaysian fiction.
Fate; A Hypothetical Construct
“What is fate? I ask myself.”
Between the leaves of an Antique copy of Dante’s Inferno lies knowledge of humanity’s ultimate and final fate.
It is fate, it would seem, that brings it into the hands of a scientist. An elaborate joke, surely? And yet secretly, it eats at him like a hidden obsession. Then when everything goes to hell and the events predicted begin to play themselves out, how can he deny the truth? With his foreknowledge perhaps he can stop it, the ultimate and terrible fate that awaits us.
Perhaps…
To appear in “A Twist of Fate” anthology from Eternal Press. http://www.eternalpress.com.au/
Unpublished
This is a small list of some of my other stories, it’s far from exhastive, and I often forget to update it so by the time you read this some of them may well be published.
An eidos and a child
From whence we came
Lost on the far side of the dream
Recursion set to a tune of irony
Socrates Now
Something Special
We dream of the infinite
Known bugs; the bookcase won’t go flat against the wall
