"In another large journal book, he wrote his notes out again, along with further notes on the notes, and then started to cross words out of the completed, annotated notes, carefully removing word after word until he had something that looked like a poem. This was how he imagined poetry to be made."

Iain M. Banks, Use of Weapons

This section is dedicated to those stories that I have written over the years which are in a state to be displayed publically. For a variety of reasons, there isn't a lot here...

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I do read a lot, though. Since the age of seven I've read practically anything that wasn't nailed down, and I was very lucky in that my parents owned (and indeed still do own) a huge number of books. I was particularly fond of science fiction novels, and used to haunt the SF section of the library selecting the three precious books that I would take home to read that week. My theory about why I started writing, or at least about why I started to have ideas about it, was that the ideas in my head that I'd been stuffing in there for all those years simply reached critical mass and started to spark off new ideas which I could scribble down on paper for others to read. And so it began.

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I still believe that there is a novel or two in me, and know that there are other fragments on my hard disc and lurking in my filing cabinet which could be expanded into full blown stories, but for the moment this is probably all there is. I hope, gentle reader, that you enjoy it. Feedback is welcome.

The fiction here is not recent, but it is self-contained. Without pleading for indulgence, these capsules are generally in need of a rewrite. In my defence, I have chosen to publish these here as they stand as an open and honest portrayal of how they were first read by others. There are notes on each piece, including an approximate date for when it was written.

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• The Manx Connection

• short stories, featuring
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