Fiction, poetry and comedy
For fiction, you can do no better than outlay a modest £7.50 (+ £1 postage and packing) for my book of eight short new ghost stories, The Promised Land. Visit the Store page….
Here’s a poem that appeared in an anthology called Spirit of Cornwall (Stuart House Trust).
Sun secret
And here’s ‘Breathe’, published in the May 2014 edition of Acumen Literary Journal.
Breathe
The river’s exhaling
a child’s breath of haze
on the dull glass of morning.
Soft-whistled,
huffed to hover
in wisps of grey
on the water’s face,
mist on its wet window.
These wraiths of warmth
haunt the chill
of water’s winter.
On this mist-canvas
I fingerpaint pictures,
trail my core of life,
imagine it onto
the unknowing surface.
How thin is that blanket,
how hardly-seen,
how easily ushered aside
by a mind’s finger.
But it is there,
that slender hope of heat,
on all the river’s
coldest mornings.
Here’s my script ‘Hackgate and Beyond’, written in response to a BBC request for rapid response five- to ten–minute sketches inspired by the media scandals.
Hackgate and Beyond
Here’s a scene from my sitcom ‘Rockard’:
And here are links to some of my pieces on the satirical website NewsBiscuit:
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/06/28/bbc-in-new-care-row-over-top-gear-home-for-elderly-and-bewildered/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/06/16/kipling-scholars-discover-new-poem-%e2%80%98iffy%e2%80%99/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/07/03/worcester-family-becomes-first-ever-to-use-new-camping-set-a-second-time/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/07/06/ministry-of-defence-%e2%80%98mislays%e2%80%99-small-war/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/07/25/new-bbc4-film-dramatises-pivotal-comedy-moment-when-nothing-happened-at-all/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/07/26/hate-me-hate-me-again-says-nick-clegg-pissing-on-the-cenotaph/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/08/01/cheering-crowds-greet-first-orgasm-since-1993-2/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/08/08/cricket-success-prompts-emergency-inquiry-into-crisis-in-english-game/
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/08/21/shame-faced-parents-admit-friends-who-warned-about-kids-were-right-all-along/