Fiction

I wrote “The Girl in the Song” for my girlfriends who needed a break from babies and all the other beautiful things that bring love to life...while taking every bit of freedom. Cyclamens and Swords was nice enough to publish it.

If you feel like travelling abroad, head over to Writers Abroad, scroll down and download a PDF of the new anthology. You'll find my story “The Brood Mare Blues.”

Transitions published my story The Language of Fans on page 33 of its Summer 2010 issue.

BurnerMag published my short story Aftermath on page 36 of its first issue.

I seriously hope you are not a nice girl. It’s a waste of time. But, if you are worried about it, head over to the Unbrellazine and take my fictional quiz.

Until the end of July my story, Finnegan & His Four Sisters of Fate, will appear as part of the Read for READ fundraising competition. All monies raised will go to sending books to East Africa. If you enjoy the story and would like to donate 2GBP, equivalent to $3US or $3.15CA, via paypal, click here.

“The Love Detox” is from my book Tales from Planet Wine Cooler. It is also the winner of the OnceWritten autumn fiction contest.

The Last Bluebird is a Christmas story I wrote. It has been short-listed in three contests, but never published. I wanted to share it as a Christmas gift with my friends on my blog.

The Unbrellazine recently published three pieces of my micro-fiction in the “Greeting Cards for my Girlfriends” series.

Head over to the Canadian Mental Health Association, Saskatchewan Division and download a pdf of their magazine Transition. Inside, you’ll find my short story “David Dunleary” on page 33.

I sent “The Assumption Chord” to the Dublin Quarterly as a short story and they published it as a “creative essay.” I usually write essays that are true, but this one is complete fiction. Still, it is the Dublin Quarterly.

Ghoti Magazine, pronounced fish, published a piece of my flash fiction called “Conductors and Insulators”.