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…
Tag: fiction
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…
“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…
“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…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
Séamus Sweeney 