“The fifteenth of August” Nthposition, 2009
Most of my fiction has been, at least to date, working out a particular idea to its conclusion. At times this has given it a rather abstract quality. This story…
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“The Invention of Morel” Adolfo Bioy Cesares, Reviewed Nthposition 2003 / SF Site 2011
This review was originally published here at Nthposition.com and some years later, with Val Stevenson of Nthposition’s permission of course, a slightly reworked version was published on SF Site Even pieces I have…
Review of “Reading Pictures” by Alberto Manguel, nthposition 2003
Original link here Its almost become a cliché to cite Frank Zappa’s (alleged) quote that “writing about music is like dancing about architecture” when decrying the tendency of music…
The Solitary Golfer, nthposition, March 2012
From about 2010 I began to submit my stories to various publications with mixed results. Around the same time I discovered duotrope.com and how accessible the world of literary publications…
Annual Report, Nthposition, July 2010
Here I tried to capture something of the spirit of those months and years which have yet to be satisfactorily named. At the time, “credit crunch” was all the rage,…
The Statistician’s Parable. Nthposition, May 09
This was written on a phone, a Nokia of some kind. There are two companion parables. Changing the sex of the character from sentence to sentence seemed profound at the…
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