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Weekly Newsletter

The weekly newsletter, collecting the week's microfiction, plus a longer piece for paid members, and a little about what I've been reading. Sent every Sunday.

Double Texting

No sad boys near trees in this week’s story, but a bit of a content warning for creepy, obsessive behaviour. Nothing in the ‘I have been reading...’ section about handling old books with gloves, either. It seems I simply cannot keep a bit going. This week’s daily stories

A Felling

Stories about shiny plaques and beetles, and seeing your reflection, and cutting down a sinister old tree.

Catching Helicopters

Stories about bad times at the library, training crows, being trapped under the ice, and childhood misunderstandings.

Passenger

Come discover what the impending deadline for my MA dissertation has done to my brain. Stories about painting, a fake well, and a drifting consciousness.

Hyphae

Stories about turning into a mushroom, putting a horrible rich man to death, and inflating roadkill. Happy new year!

The End of Year Rush

Fires, an ocean starling, wolf's teeth, new year's resolutions, and screaming at crows.

The Last Solstice

Happy solstice! Here's a song for the occasion, and a story too. If we are at vaguely comparable latitudes, congratulations on making it through the darkest bit. If we don't, or you are reading this at a later date, congratulations anyway: I'm quite sure

Christmas Shopping at the Non-Euclidean Argos

Sometimes, the stories we tell reveal something in us we weren't even aware of; other times, we walk two circuits of the Arndale Centre in Manchester looking for the Argos and we just want to gently vent about that experience. Fear not: I have since made my escape,

The Pit and the Sky

Cats big and small, worrisome pastes, and a hole that calls to you.

Edith Buchanan's Wonderful Machine

This week's story is about a magic lamp that, as far as we can tell, does not have a genie in it.