Tag Archives: short stories
New Collection!
Delighted to say that I’ve signed a contract with the wondrous PS Publishing for a new collection of stories, due out in 2019. 
Twelve reprints, two new stories, and
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The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners
Over at Tales to Terrify, “The Heart is a Mirror for Sinners” is available for your listening pleasure!
This story originally appeared in the exquisitely produced Murder Ballads edited by Mark Beech (Egaeus Press, March 2017).
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RAF
And here it is,the latest Review of Australian Fiction, with stories from yours truly and Mr Dennan Chew.
“Better Angels”
By Angela Slatter
‘How far down, missus?’
The woman’s staring not at the hole in the wet ground, nor at the tall bearded
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Boonah Writers Festival: Short Stories
White fox by Kathleen Jennings
As promised to my classes this morning, here’s the list of short stories that have remained with me over many years and still give me nightmares on occasion – so, highly recommended!
It’s by no
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Re-opening of the Flensing Factory
So, I’m back in the flensing business.
My short story development service has re-opened. Details at the link above.
New Reprint Collection: Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales
And so here is the cover for my newest collection – my first “proper” horror collection, Winter Children and Other Chilling Tales. Eleven reprints together for the first time AND a brand new story, “The Red Forest”.
The lovely PS
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Kickstarter: The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror #6
For the last five years, Ticonderoga Publications has produced a most excellent tome, The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror, an annual compendium of some of the finest short stories in Oz.
For #6, they could use a little
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On Short Fiction by Damien Angelica Walters
Over at Layers of Thought, the very talented Damien Angelica Walters talks about one of my favourite topics: short fiction.
I keep reading that short fiction is making a comeback. To that I say, did it ever go away?
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New work: The October Widow
Edwin Austin Abbey’s “Young Woman in the Woods”
So, my first new words after the break are on a short horror story called “The October Widow”.
The October Widow knew herself hunted,
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