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I'm doing a live reading this Sunday (Saturday for EST)
On Saturday at 8:00 pm EST (which is Sunday 2pm NZT) I’m doing a live reading of, The Island, a story out of my collection, Hallucinations.
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Looking back and looking ahead
This is the first Substack post I’ve published in three weeks.
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The Best of Us (a short story)
Speculative Fiction. What if judgement day arrives on your day off?
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My Recent Reading Diet (part two)
Below you’ll find a list of the books I’ve recently read and some of my main takeaways from them, but please don’t read these as traditional book…
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Amerika
One of my favourite works of classic literature is Franz Kafka’s 1927 novella, Amerika or The Man Who Disappeared.
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The Untouched Man (A short story)
I “You got anything I can prop that thing up with?” asked Benjy.
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Waiting on the Devil (A Short Story)
Halloween horror with a bit of an existential jolt.
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The Sudden Walk
The Sudden Walk
Welcome to the Sudden Walk. Here you'll find: Fiction that's hallucinatory yet grounded in realism. Think Irvine Walsh meets Joseph Conrad. Non-fiction posts documenting the road to getting published in real time. No guarantees, no safety nets. Enjoy
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