The Critical Spirit That Creates

This page showcases some of my work. Short stories, poems, and an assortment of other odds and ends.

Please note that everything on this page (without exception) is not for redistribution of any kind and is simply here for you to read and enjoy. Someday maybe I'll get a publisher interested in something. Until then, please respect my property. These pages are likely to be on the net for a long time yet with any luck, I've had them since 1994 so far.

Strangeness and the Married Man

The ever popular bound into insanity and surreality. If your geldings are hobdales and your toltaries are barrowites then get your funky tomatoes over this page, you Garbaelian Higgworls! Currently available in HTML and soon in PDF format.

Two Devils, An Angel and Me

“It happened last Tuesday,” he begins. Bob sits back and lights a cigarette. Yeah, that’s right, he lights a cigarette. Bob can criticise Phil about his coffee, but Bob’s got habits of his own. Smoking is to Bob, what coffee is to Phil with one exception: Bob does it cause it looks cool. He’s a connoisseur in his own right. He loves a good Cuban, but at the end of the day he makes his own pleasures. Sure, it’s all very well smoking a cigar because they say it’s rolled on the sweaty thighs of young beautiful virgin women, but Bob does that every night with his Golden Virginia and it costs him a damn sight less. Sometimes he rolls his own in places he knows for a fact those cigar guys never thought possible to roll anything in. Yes, you guessed it, the cigarette he’s lighting is pre-rolled. All that remains now of one particular Golden Virginian’s innocence, alas. But, shit, that’s Bob.

Read the complete story here in PDF format.

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They are in the machines! They are the machines! They're here! The digital gods are among us! Beware: users of the internet, users of computers, users of electrical technology. They are watching your every move. They are waiting, plotting, preparing.

Sex, death, electronic alchemy, computerised immortality and, naturally, the impending Armageddon! It's all here in this original story designed for the internet. You could call it a modern day horror story -- but that would be a cliché.

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(Good title, eh?) a story about a story. A must!

The Gallery of Incompetent Superheroes

Art by Guy Gaunt

I suppose you could call this a parody on superheroes, but you could also call this a parody of collectable cards. Gotta collect them all!