Bone Diamond @ Beneath Ceaseless Skies

My story Bone Diamond – a sweeping tale of greed, madness, and murder in alt. Egypt – has just gone live at Beneath Ceaseless Skies. This is my first ever pro-rated sale, so I’m utterly proud and pleased with it….

Sky Painter @ Something Wicked

My story Sky Painter – an epic fable about a fallen king and the love he left behind – has just gone live at Something Wicked, the South African magazine that also published Freemantle Mons a while back. SW was…

Stick Man
August 19, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 5 Comments 

Dray is slumped at the edge of his desk, doodling. It’s Saturday again. Another business studies class. 4 low level Japanese students talking about their companies in broken English. No matter what he does, it’s always boring. You’d think, you’re…

The Disgusting Crow
August 13, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · Comment 

Tycho lay on top of his grassy hillock and waited for the disgusting crow to come for his eyes, feeling downright blue. His friends the tired old turtle and one-eared rabbit tried to pep him up, but it wasn’t taking….

Sir Clowdishley and the Sea
July 23, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 4 Comments 

His name was Sir Clowdishley. He was once a royalty man, an astronomer to the king. He surveyed great kingdoms of heaven and charted the progress of the stars. He named whole galaxies after his two children and wife, but…

Sky Painter
July 16, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 2 Comments 

The Sky Painter lived on the mountain and painted the sky.  He painted it blue for blue skies, and white and grey for clouds.  At night he painted it black, with white for all the stars.  When the sun rose…

Alegria’s Hair
July 2, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 5 Comments 

The first time Tarragon Ray saw the giant Alegria, he was a baby. He was lying in his father’s arms, staring goggle-eyed up at the clouds and the big blue sky. He could hear the comforting crack of his father’s…

Mandragora’s Laws
June 25, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 4 Comments 

It was a bright spring morning when Mandragora came upon the sweet little cottage with the two dead bodies hanging from its eaves. “What’s all this then?” he asked his skulls, rattling out behind him on their 100 leather tethers….

Bathsheba
June 18, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 1 Comment 

(Advisory- this is a graphic story, X-rated really.) Mad Noah can’t give me what I want. No. Mad Noah stands in his tent and shouts at me in the doorway- “Incubus of Satan! If you had SEEN the holy holy…

Emhoola’s Gibbet
June 4, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · 2 Comments 

Emhoola peddled magic. He sold it by the cartload, and everywhere he went it was bought with self-deceiving gusto. He sold it in cheap brass compasses that no longer worked, in the shriveled corpses of pack donkeys whose heads lolled…

Tanglewood
April 2, 2009 · Fantasy, Stories · Comment 

On the southernmost fringe of the tanglewood forest, beyond the kingdoms of men, in the midst of a purgatorial wasteland blighted with perpetual winter and savaged by endless storms, there stands an inn where the battle-lines between sanity and madness…

The Mistman @ Byzarium
September 13, 2008 · Fantasy, Published Stories, Stories · Comment 

My story the Mistman just went live at Byzarium! “There was a village in the mountains at the top of the world that was always shrouded in mist. Its name was Ballahee, and in it lived a small community of…

Flatland
July 29, 2008 · Fantasy, Stories · Comment 

At the center of Flatland there was a tall sky-scraper, thirty stories high. In the skyscraper were many offices, filled with workers who spent their days typing at their ledgers, recording the business of Flatland that they could see out…

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