Descend The Shades of Night

It built her heart from shadows, her skin from neon glow reflected in milky puddles of machine effluent.   As they race away, their shrieks ring across the emptiness of the old car… Read More →

Umwelt: Darkness Flows Like A River Episode 15: Strange Company

Lit in solemn shadow a candle sputters, sends menacing shapes across the walls. Sat in the centre of a round table it awaits company. Strange company. Then, from the back of the tavern,… Read More →

Umwelt: Darkness Flows Like A River Episode 14: Three Hundred

The forest breathes silence and mist, cloaks itself in stygian robes. Time has all but stopped, exists only in the moments between stillness and movement. Lucian and his men lie in a line,… Read More →

Idea Babies.

You ever feel the pressure to be an ideas factory? All those authors constantly wagging on about how they’re so brim full of ideas all the time they can barely buy enough notepads… Read More →

Clarion Write-a-thon Progress…

I’m a little late posting this. I intended to post once a week but I am notorious for forgetting there are things I meant to do, it’s a case of mild senility associated… Read More →

Umwelt: Darkness Flows Like A River Episode 13: The Hunger of the Lost

At first glance it appears to be no more than shadow, until the watcher realises that the sun falls direct onto that corner. Where there is shadow there should be blinding light. What… Read More →

Poetic Interlude: Buried in Thunder

I Hear distant whispers and sighs. Black lies. Black skies of high cloud cradle ambient thunder. The distant throb of electric anger. The sky is calling, is falling. Drifts down past my wind-numbed… Read More →

Clarion Write-A-Thon and a bit of a moan… OK, a lot of a moan.

In my ‘novels’ section you’ll see I’ve written a book called Coil, which is a bio-punk SF thriller and currently sits in my agent’s (heh, feels SO weird typing that) capable hands accumulating… Read More →

Umwelt: Darkness Flows Like a River Episode 12: My Fair Lady

Two horses thunder over the lawn, their hoof beats like the deafening approach of an army at speed in the silence of early morning. Alexander closes his eyes, allows the sound to travel… Read More →

Guest Post: Steve McHugh: Author of ‘Crimes Against Magic’

Today I am delighted to welcome onto my blog a brand new and rather marvellous author I met through good old twitter. He recently published his rather gritty urban fantasy ‘Crimes Against Magic’… Read More →