One bite from this cursed creature, and it would be over. Not now, perhaps, but later. Sick and fevered in some nameless ward in the bowels of The Ministry, wasting her last breath on a rattling cry of hopelessness and pain. It had been close. She had reeled from its rancid breath, reeking like a […]
A collection of flash fiction stories from my Twitter, based on some random old photos in my library… Elsie and the Swan Every year, this day, this bench, since his passing. He’d loved feeding the birds. She’d always been a bit scared of them, especially the big ones. Neck arched down, he turned back to […]
I wrote this story as part of a contest to commemorate Iain Banks, following his sad passing in 2013. Walking On The Bridge (PDF, 270k) Banks was — and remains — one of my favourite authors; I had just started writing fiction semi-seriously. I had to enter. The brief was to take one of the […]