Air Sacs and Frilly Bits ‘Horses don’t talk like that, Dicky.’ Miriam rolled half a dozen of her forward-facing eyes in an expression of ...

Well Met by Moonlight We were sailing our little barque on a straight four-day run from Domina to Carribtown. Grandpa bought the beautifu...

ADDITIVE ‘You. Out. You’re cast out.’ Scuttling into the vat room, that was one way of introducing herself – instant confrontation – prob...

OPTION THREE. My conchiglie partner’s shell has suddenly begun to thicken up. ‘Winter’s coming, Rod,’ she told me. ‘First day of Autumn....

THERE'S SOMETHING IN MY POND The koi carp in the big pond were getting thinned-out. It wasn’t the grass snakes: I got rid of them two yea...

I DON’T CARE ‘No. I’m not going to help. I don’t care tuppunction what you or anyone else says or does.’ I scarcely heard their pleas, my...

I KEEP HAVING BLACKOU— ‘I had another blackout yesterday, Mi Duck.’ Pekin-Cayuga – as I call her – sniffed, ‘Shush, Emmerdale’s just star...

BIGMOUTHS Our flight was delayed, so we were marooned for an overnight stopover on the Hub Port orbiting Planet Exxen. No private room to...

SECOND THOUGHTS? In the dark. In bed, thinking about Madelya, beside me, so warm and silky soft and smooth. I lightly stroke. The darkne...

- It's pleasing to see a book I wrote on Amazon with this phrase underneath it, "Frequently read together" or "Frequently bought together...

– I started assembling a book of non-Sci-fi short stories over Christmas, to be called “Of Twists and Turns”. – Working through 200+ near...

When I was a kid, I read science fiction (when I'd gotten over Biggles and Zane Grey). - A solitary reader, I walked 3 miles to Sneinton ...

On Christmas Day “You need a change. You’re crabby and stale,” I told myself. It saved Chris from saying it. “Don’t spend Christmas Day o...

Planning is Flexible · The whole idea of planning is that it’s nothing more than a thought ahead – “that which might, just possibly, mayb...

· Just about a year ago, I attended a talk at the Mechanics Institute, Nottingham, along with members of the Nottingham Writers’ Group, a...

From Subscribers’ November Newsletter I wrote the story called “Terminal Space” last winter, and kept it on one side with a folder of oth...

It's hardly safe to walk the streets at night - must be the best year ever to lit-up aliens in Brinsley

Treat yourself Reach to the shelf You know what to get Buy the set, And through December You'll always remember That one good deed Makes ...