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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Sci Phi journal no more
My story “The Granddaughter Paradox” was published about this time last year in Sci Phi Journal. Unfortunately, I have now discovered, Sci Phi journal is no more (although the website is still…
Perpetual Motion. Part 5 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here Part 3 here . Part 4 here Full story here. This story is fairly typical of my rushed efforts of a rather threadbare narrative and characterisation all around…
Perpetual Motion. Part 4 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here Part 3 here . Full story here Scene 9. A scene of explication With enormous fanfare, the Creative Online project, or CREON, was launched to…
Perpetual Motion. Part 3 of 5. Nthposition.com Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Part 2 here. Full story here Scene 8. Not as long ago as most of the other scenes, with the exception of Scene 2. A Network Rail train from…
Perpetual Motion. Part 2 of 5. Nthposition, Sept 2010
Part 1 here. Original story here Scene 4: Nineteen years and seven months ago. Along with John Cooper, a student from Manchester itself, older than everyone else in the group,…
Perpetual Motion. Part 1 of 5. Nthposition, September 2010.
Divided (somewhat arbitrarily) into “scenes”, and deriving from some thoughts on AI, and a desire to use the “perpetual motion” game in a story – and with a debt, I…
Inherit the Earth (part 2) Nthposition.com, December 2004
Part 1 is here Ten years from now Malcolm and Linda and the ones with no names, the old folk whom they picked up on the road, went down into…
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