short story
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The Soteriologist
I suppose you could call this a companion piece to the “Soteriology” story, but the only real link between them is the (rather pretentious) titles I gave them both. Instead of a society working to save all its people from damnation, this story concerns itself with how a super powered being would choose who to…
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Canary Wharf Gothic
A little while ago I had a mini obsession with the “XXXX gothic” pieces, and decided to draft one for an area I know well – Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands – an area that has seen significant investment and building, with an influx of business and people. But like most places it has its…
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Soteriology
This story came from an idea I will be using in a later work, but which started as “a hazmat suit which could withstand Hell”. From that idea came the first line – after all, humanity’s first foray into the Inferno would likely not go well. Of all the recent crop of short stories I’ve…
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The Department
So, this idea was originally going to be “the plot” of Displacement – I envisioned an opening scene cutting between parallel narratives of a surgeon desperately trying to save a patient on the operating theatre with someone being mugged in an alley – the conceit being I would use the same dialogue between intercut scenes…
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Ölek Sun is Dead
I, like most authors I suspect, have notebook after notebook (or more likely Apple Notes) of ideas – fragments, concepts, characters, themes, musings etc. And like most authors probably more than I could ever actually fully get out of my head and into actual words, before I shuffle off. So I am trying to do…
Beckbridge - sometime scribbler 