Grumpy old man getting his head together in the country writes gloomy short fiction and takes moody photos of sunsets and trees and things.
He also makes depressing instrumental electronic rock music as Sharp White Teeth: [Bandcamp]/[Soundcloud]/[Spotify].
Sometimes he plays 90s alt-rock bass for Message From The Oppressor: [Bandcamp]/[Soundcloud]/[Spotify].
What? No, you’re having a mid-life crisis.
Category: Fiction
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So the good folks over at Savage Realms Monthly saw fit to pay me actual cash money for a thing that I made up inside my head!
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Because sometimes when you get bored of not being a writer the best solution is to just write something and get it out there somehow.
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A very different piece, this. It’s not autobiographical per se, but safe to say I was not in a good place when I wrote it and neither were a lot of the people I knew.
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This was written in the late hours of one Friday evening and the early hours of the subsequent Saturday morning in a desperate attempt to have something ready for Stokes Croft Writers’ ongoing storytelling night Talking Tales.
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This was written in collaboration with, and at the suggestion of, the lovely and very talented Lisa Rose; a version with her wonderful illustrations was included in Ink Soup 8: Ouroboros.
Somebody Always Drowns 