I’ve written some novel manuscripts. I’ll get one published one of these days. My most recent, 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.