Reasons to Remain

I’ve written some novel manuscripts. I’ll get one published one of these days. My most recent is my Midwest novel, and it’s about rock music, crows and snow.

The one before that, The Satanists, was a named runner-up for the Irish Novel Fair 2023.

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Short Stories

(These are all from a while ago! Click titles to read)

The Satanists: The First Abrahamic Bible; and fakery and the things we fake; and carrying Satan with you everywhere you go (even if he’s a fake, too). Published in issue #3 of Severine (it’s the last story in the magazine), January 2016. The above-mentioned novel grew out of this story.

Going Back In: A lonely walk on a cold night. A big house and a family who can’t put things right. Unfinished thoughts. Published in issue #1 of Severine, March 2014.

Goodnight, Sweet Quince: Have you ever thought that humanity might have been invented by strawberries? A revised version of this story was published in “The Inkwell”  magazine in November 2011. With illustration by Rebekah Strong, on page 24 of issue #4, on page 24 of issue #4

This House of Cards Must Fall: a Wonderland, a rite of passage, a sickly sweetshop fantasy. Published in Issue #1 of The Treacle Well, April 2013.

She Died, Of Course: a quieter, fragile piece. Published in Issue VIII of the Inkwell, autumn 2013.