Every word ever spoken is insufficient to tell one truth that needs to be told so we speak more to evade failure’s silence Be sure to check out my new book No Cure for Shell Shock.
Do you remember that moment when it came to matter? Matter enough not to do or say what you should, when judgement put it beyond what you could? When words and actions reached out to send tremors through foundations that were once fluid? And you started to know that your […]
Chip away the rock on which you stand to offer clearer views and wait nervously for the collapse to bury you Be sure to check out my new book No Cure for Shell Shock.
Treading through technicolour with monochrome feet bringing dull grey-tone with each step as if all vivid shades were an infection killed by unintended antibodies purging the sickness of vision before the choice is made to live it or not Eventually birthing paralysis as the only kind reaction to this blinding […]
Well it’s taken a while but my new Prose/Poetry collection No Cure for Shell Shock is officially out! You can buy it online from Amazon in either digital or paperback formats, or if you’re a bit more old school you can order it through your local bookshop of choice. And given the […]
Getting perilously close to completion now with the final print draft finished and the cover undergoing some minor changes. So here’s the synopsis for No Cure for Shell Shock… No Cure for Shell Shock is intended as the antithesis to the war story. Each part of this collection was designed […]
It’s a couple of days after another mass murder in Paris. I wanted to write something about it, some prose or poetry to try and comprehend or frame the event with what I consider to be sanity, but then I realised I have nothing left to write. After Boko Haram undertook […]
Something I stumbled across today and which everyone should have a look at. Strange, technically incredible for the ’30s and the product of a wonderful mind.
Set in a semi-dystopian version of Manchester’s underbelly Pomona is about a sister’s search for her sister. In a way, more or less and just about. With Pomona the plot is treated less as an essential asset and more as a house of mirrors style premise for elements of surreal, Lovecraftian and philosophical […]
Just a quick update to say that NCfSS, my upcoming collection of short stories and poetry, is well on it’s way to completion. Currently it’s being reviewed and edited with cover art being worked on too but, for the most part, the writing bit is done. Unfortunately I still can’t […]