Too Much Boogie Anthology
My story, Hole, has been published in Cole Riley’s Too Much Boogie anthology. There are a shitload of outstanding writers in this anthology and, although it was published without much fanfare, it is really worth a read. Summary Selected stories inspired from the recorded gems of the Delta blues, Chicago blues, Memphis blues and Texas […]
Future Imperfect
This story is one in a series that is posted on Salome Jones’ Red Phone Box Series. Please go there and enjoy the rest of them. The ash on the end of her cigarette is just about to fall. That’s what I think when I look at the woman sitting across from me in the […]
Going Dark
I’ve taken stock of what I have posted in the last while and decided I need to take a break. You don’t visit my site to wade through this emo crap. You come here to read erotica. I find I’m currently not able to produce anything of value. So it’s time to shut up. I […]
Prisoners of Babel
In Babel’s tower glassless windows devour every wind-borne word. The ancient mortar holds each ragged stone in place. A brittle embrace. Only its great weight, its slumbering granite slabs, keep it standing up. What of our labours? Clutching mossy river stones to our thin, bruised chests. We shore up its walls in a futile effort […]
Demolition Day
We shake hands to show we come unarmed. We kiss to prove our bona fides, to smell each other’s fear, and know it for what it is. I spent so long convincing myself there were substitutes that would suffice. Metaphors built with such elegance they could take the place of the concrete. Letters for whispers, […]
Someday, Somehow
I keep hoping for amnesia. Waking in a state of sublime dyslexia. The ability to spell your name miraculously gone. I anticipate opportunities for grand betrayal. A house key left on the bedside table of a stranger. I want to forget how to find my way back to you. Purge the need to skin my […]
The Things We Leave Behind
Move on, says the bystander and so I do being essentially accommodating at heart. I know about starting anew having done it so many times there’s no beginning to the ending only a continuum of arrivals and departures. I escape with grace long before you have time to regret the whole incident or call in […]
Writing Research Resources
I admire writers who get an idea for a story and just go for it, doing their research to get the details right later, but I can’t do it. I find I need to fully immerse myself in the information before I feel ‘ready’ to write. Often when I find good maps, I print them […]
Lime, Lemongrass and Gingerade
Having hit a total dry-spell in the erotic fiction department, I thought I’d offer you a recipe for a nice summer drink. Yeah, pathetic I know, but it’s delicious. You’ll thank me. 3 ripe limes 3 inches of fresh ginger three sticks of lemongrass Sugar syrup or honey to taste Cut the skinny tops off […]
Words like Sand & Turbulent Stories: Readers’ Experience of Shifting Narrative
Electronic text, especially text on the web in HTML form, has fundamentally changed our understanding of the ‘printed word’. On the web, text can change constantly and readers do not have the same surety that, like the words they read yesterday in a book, they will be the same words today. Of course, the meaning […]