THE FACE WOULD NOT DIVULGE a single thing. How long had he been staring at it? By the calendars of old, much time had passed. It varied...

I LOOKED AT MY WATCH: eleven hundred hours, lunchtime. I supposedly had no longer than oh-one-three-oh to get over to my Joy Center....

Provisional cover, second book Every other day, an article comes out about how dang hard it is to get published, how even if you get...

Things I've been up to... One of three covers I did for this novel Serialised Fiction Back in November I serialised a Noir Fantasy novel...

Es lo que me dijiste: que tendría mi oportunidad más prometedora en la floristería, esa de Quintana, él de la barba, que me pusiera a...

I started 2025 off with the launch of a book I and twenty-two other writers took part in making a reality. I responded to a contest...

Sister, you are the puffed cheeks of a woman unsure of her trajectory. Although, it could also be the puffed cheek of the hot-dogger who...

Micro-fiction A willowy man pinched his coat tighter against the salt wind that made his eyes sting. He sidestepped the itchy, brown...

Jackson was making coffee. The morning news blared and the kitchen smelled like toast. Gala, in  thick woolen socks, came in, making no...

A Fleeting Encounter It was tiny. A sandy, marigold flower petal caught in my hair, bright yellow, floating on the breeze from...

Getting by in Tligolian is a clever, beguiling novella that weaves its way through an elusive city, encountering knotty intersections of...

Where are my true cognates, mate? As a language learner and teacher, I am endlessly fascinated by the way words that look the same do not...

I found Voima Oy on Twitter about a year ago, and have a soft spot for the world she creates in her stories. She is a writer of...

"To experience thirst one has to be alive" Review of Amélie Nothomb's 2019 novel. In Amélie Nothomb’s book, Soif (2019), she asks us to...

Not 99. Not 101. Five minutes in my life. Dwellings The rock at Bandolier was indeed soft. I looked out over the dugouts dotting the face...

Caring for plants and helping them to thrive can be challenging. Especially when you dont know what you're doing, especially when YouTube...

THE ART OF FLASH FICTION SUBSTACK PROMPTS: PEPPER · GOLDEN LAB · PECULIAR · LIP BALM · RAIN · CEMETERY · THEME: NEW FRIENDSHIP SAVES...

Here's an excerpt of the first in a new series of small animations I'm doing. Rough AF. Just a sketch.

WERNER HERZOG VOICES AN A.I. POET IN NEW AUDIOBOOK Review 'I AM CODE: An Artificial Intelligence Speaks' to be published in August by...

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