A Body in Motion
Stories about picking snowdrops, climbing trees, running away, and a daughter on the moon.
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.
The Puffin Guide to Drawing
Stories about playing chess with an incomplete set, drawing puffins, and getting punched in the face.
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,