All The Lonely People
This was inspired by my daughter, Choo Choo, after she misunderstood one of the lyrics in The Beatles’ Eleanor Rigby. There was a little village in the East Midlands, near where the A1 and the A16 crossed. To get …
Stories
Stories That Are Short
Otherwise known as “fiction”, these are some stories that I’ve been putting together over the years. There’s no particular pattern, no particular theme – just stories I wanted to tell.
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The Venerable Santas
I’ve had a fascination with alternate-view Santa stories for a good chunk of my life. This one came after I realized that it would be impossible to cover the globe in a single night. So what if a single Santa could …
The Killing House
In October 2018, the CBC ran a short story contest. I didn’t really have a hope in hell of winning — the only things I’ve successfully published are short articles. Winning a fiction contest was going to take …
My Dinner with Alton
This stems from a tiny snippet of a very strange dream I once had, but in the end, it’s fan fiction. And, for the record, I’ve nothing but the deepest respect and appreciation of Alton Brown. Heck, the guy …
Eald Brocc
I’ve always been fascinated with alternative history, where the names and events of history are swept up into a work of fiction that slides in a new tale in between the pages of record, or twists the existing tales …