“Feuilles Mortes” Shortlisted in Writing Magazine’s Poetry Competition
Delighted to have made the shortlist for this one, being the first poetry competition I’ve entered in a few years. Thanks to Writing Magazine. It will be available to read in a collection called The Crystal Barrel, which I am compiling for 2020. You can read “Feuilles Mortes” for yourself here. Find more poetry here.…
The Shed of Revelations
Occasionally, a few friends and I undertake clean-up operations on the local beach. It was during one such outing when we discovered this mysterious thing. We went a little closer to investigate and found something odd: No-one knew what to make of it. Someone had meticulously stitched pages of the Bible – mostly from the book of…
Grey Noise: Rock and Roll can be Murder
Now available on Amazon: What happens when a disturbed sound engineer snaps? Patrick McDonagh is a Liverpool sound tech who truly understands the old saying that “silence is golden”. Highly-skilled behind a mixing desk, but undervalued due to his lack of charisma and social graces, he remains forever on the fringes of the music industry,…
Short Days
‘The nights are really drawing in now, aren’t they?’ ‘Aye.’ ‘Nip in the air.’ ‘That time of year.’ The old man, who had been stalking me across the desolate golf course with a huge Great Dane, fell silent as he looked out over the estuary. ‘Got to take as much in while we can.’ It was…
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