SHORT STORIES

Please visit Literally Stories and read “Third Closest to the Sun” for free. You can also read “The Second Door” for free via this link. If you like them, you can scroll down and click on the appropriate link to purchase an anthology containing my work.

ENDEAVOUR is published in Aesthetica’s Creative Writing Annual 2016. On board the Endeavour, on route to a new home, and in spite of Earth’s pending expiry date, a mother tries to convince her husband that they should take the last blue-planet bound vessel. Available to purchase through Aesthetica Magazine in paperback.

 

THE SECOND DOOR is published in Class, the H.G. Wells Short Story Competition’s 2015 anthology. Three hundred years after humanity discovers what happens after death, two young boys plan their early exit through the Second Door, to avoid facing the trials of everyday life. Available to purchase through Amazon and Trencavel.

 

THIRD CLOSEST TO THE SUN, winner of the Audio Arcadia Short Story Prize, 2015, is published in On Another Plane: a Collection of Winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Short Stories. As the only survivor of a plane crash, Daniel seeks an explanation at the Soul Centre: an organisation who can map the route to the Divine. In exchange for his money, Daniel receives his answer inside a small, black bottle. Available to purchase through Amazon in paperback and ebook, Lulu in paperback and ebook, and through Barnes and Noble and Kobo.

 

WITHERSHINS appears in the Momaya Short Story Review 2017 – Utopia Distopia, published by Momaya Press. This is my dystopian short story about a woman’s stance against a radical law to slow population growth. It is available to purchase through Amazon.