Announcement: Beta Reading Services

Summary I am delighted to announce that I am now offering my beta reading services on Fiverr. A beta reader … More

The Octopus Who Dismembered Love

After ‘Incarnations of Burned Children’ by David Foster Wallace The half-chewed octopus lay like a tumour on the gold-rimmed dinner … More

Reading: Armadale by Wilkie Collins / Life With Picasso by Francoise Gilot / Everyman Pocket Poets: Art and Artists “Beware of … More

We pulled the cap off that once quiet evening and choked on its medicine. The leg bone came popping out … More

Author’s Note: This is an academic article I wrote on Christina Rossetti’s poem, Goblin Market.

Hen sat at the bus shelter in a blueberry coat with a tissue tucked in the right sleeve. Her carer … More

First published anonymously in the April 1835 edition of The New England Review, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown is considered … More

I’m sure we can all acknowledge the pressing fact that the surroundings we grow in shape us into who we … More

Author’s Note: This is the first tale to come out of Pozzywallah! Share with everyone you know! Read it to … More

Author’s Note: Ask any writer and they will show you the scrap heap residing in their notebooks and USB sticks: the … More