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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 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 December 24, 2017December 24, 2017

 A story for Christmas – F. Scott Fitzgerald ,  “The Lost Decade”

When I was 14 or of 15 the Penguin Classics editions of F Scott Fitzgerald short stories made an indelible impression – to some degree the covers (which forged a…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “The Lady of Situations”, Stephen Dedman, SF Site 2011

Original here. Another of my SF Site reviews of Ticonderoga Publications books after this and this.  As with “Ghost Seas”, I recall greatly enjoying the book at the time, yet have forgotten most about…

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Posted on March 30, 2017

Review of “Love in Vain”, Lewis Shiner, SF Site 2010

Another Ticonderoga Publications review, following the review of “Ghost Seas” by Steven Utley of the prior post, here is a review of Lewis Shiner’s Love in Vain. Lewis Shiner  is an interesting writer – I…

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Posted on January 19, 2017

Fiction Update Jan 2017

2016 was a pretty lean year for me as far as actually writing fiction went. Indeed, there is little to update compared to a year ago. However, as well as the recent…

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Posted on January 27, 2016

Fiction updates

A while ago (during November, to be exact) I blogged that I was using NaNoWriMo as a framework for trying to finish a story I was writing. I wrote that I…

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