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Posted on January 9, 2019

Review of “Albert of Adelaide”, Howard L Anderson, SF Site, 2012

Original here. `And I must confess that until I stumbled across it I had forgotten reading this book or writing this review. The anthropomorphised animal is a staple of children’s…

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Posted on October 18, 2018

Fiction (and poetry) update

It’s been a while since I posted a fiction update – Jan 2017 to be precise. The one before that was two years ago. Alas, the pattern of outlets I…

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Posted on October 18, 2018

“Still on patrol”

I came across this call for submissions for an upcoming anthology by Otter Libris: There is a tradition in the United States Navy that no submarine is ever truly lost…

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Posted on July 30, 2018July 26, 2018

“The Driver”, winner of Molly Keane Memorial Creative Writing Award 2010

It was a privilege to receive this award in 2010 in Lismore, via the auspices of Waterford County Council, and to hear the kind words from Molly Keane’s daughter at…

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Posted on July 26, 2018

The Waxwing Slain – short story from Nthposition.com, 2004

  This was the first story I had published on the now defunct nthposition.com. It owes a little too much to a certain J G Ballard story, but re-reading it…

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Posted on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018

Non-Binary Review call for submissions on Dante’s Inferno (deadline 24th Oct 2018)

More info here: NonBinary Review is a quarterly digital literary journal that joins poetry, fiction, essays, and art around each issue’s theme. We invite  authors to explore each theme in…

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Posted on April 22, 2018

“The Unbelievers” – short fiction by G Scott Huggins

At the now defunct Sci Phi journal, here is an interesting story by G Scott Huggins, “The Unbelievers”. The story has a fairly clear theological point, but also reminded me…

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Posted on March 24, 2018

From “The State”, a short story by Tommy Orange

From The New Yorker, drawn from Orange’s forthcoming novel There There Before you were born, you were a head and a tail in a milky pool—a swimmer. You were a…

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