2006-08-26

Haiku: dragon

A huge green dragon
With a nipple as its tongue
Coiled around her chest

2005-12-27

Couple of reviews

So, 2005 wasn't quite the comeback year I was planning (too much else going on, as always). If I didn't just *know* it would doom me from the off I'd make a new year's resolution to do better in '06. But anyway, I've joined a BSFA orbiter which is cool both because it gets me valuable feedback, and a useful encouragement to actually *finish* stuff I've started. In addition to the Wolf story, this year I have at least published a couple of reviews: the first in futureFire on Tim Lees' The Life to Come, and the second in Matrix on the movie of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. (The only fiction submission I ventured in '05, a new cyberpunk piece, has been rejected...)

2005-01-05

The Wolf Behind the Sun

The Future Fire
Issue 2005.01, January 2005
http://futurefire.net/2005.01/fiction/wolf.html

The Wolf illo
My "comeback" story, after many years not writing because I was "too busy" doing other things. (Mostly writing!) This story started life as a dense, surreal, experimental piece with multiple first-person narratives that switched from one to the other without any flags. Thanks to some helpful readers over the years (including Kate Pullinger, and now the FF fiction editors), it is now much more readable.

1992-05-06

The Curse of the Hunter

The Velvet Vampire fanzine
Issue XVI, Spring 1992

This story was the intro to a longer piece about the vampire Juge LeBonne and his witch sister Katryn. It had a Western setting, with undertones of Near Dark-esque PunkVamp. In a series of rewrites over the years, the two protagonists have switched places, narrative roles, and even genders.

A version of the same piece was also used as the intro to my AI novel Death of a Head (unpublished).

1991-12-14

Lovepain of Eternal Night

The Velvet Vampire fanzine
Issue XV, Winter 1991

My first publication (as far as I can remember) was a short poem about a vampire who loved mortal women but refused to save them beyond the span of their natural lives. Probably quite adolescent--given my age at the time!