Although delayed by holidays in the very top of England (or the very bottom of Scotland, depending on how you look at it), here is the final instalment of the first chapter of Kingdom of the Lion. Read about a poor chap, a victim of both circumstance and hopelessness, and the compatriots he is thrownContinue reading “Caged Fox – Chapter One published today (for free!)”
Category Archives: Original fiction
Fran
This short piece came from doing the Open University Creative Writing course (for free). I did this just under a year ago and I’m still happy with it – so onto the Blog it goes. Any tips for me? Let me know! If you want to try the course for yourself, go to Start WritingContinue reading “Fran”
Counting Down the Thunder
I wrote this on the 6th February 2019 at the Wear Valley Writers Workshop in Bishop Auckland, County Durham England. The prompt was a set of odd words of which I chose ‘Bobowler’ which I discovered meant moth. Having not used the word before, I set out a story where one suddenly appears. Enjoy, ErraticContinue reading “Counting Down the Thunder”
By The Sword
What follows is one of my early pieces of writing. Originally, the text was a confused mess of past and present tenses, and of clauses that didn’t quite make sense. It was published back when Elfwood.com was still ‘the place’ to be and won a moderator award. I’ve dusted it down and polished it aContinue reading “By The Sword”
Imagine Erratically 