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SHORT STORIES, POETRY AND PLAYS

Small but perfectly formed? Big ideas in small parcels? Messages in bottles?
These brief encounters try to be all of these. Nowadays they have become the medium of choice for commuters and travellers who want to have a complete reading experience between boarding and alighting; or those with a leisurely hour to fill in the garden or on the sofa or beach. I have tried to ensure that every one of these offerings has a twist ending that you would be hard pressed to predict!

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The Simultaneous 6

When six children from across the world are contacted by an alien, they are plunged into an extraordinary adventure. They have been chosen to save Earth's climate!

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The Begetters

Global harmony. DNA has been fully mapped and conquered. Surely no-one can bring chaos to the peace and security of mankind?

Future Imperfect

The end of civilization is here. What lifeline is there? Who is trained to take the species forward? Could a games-player bring salvation?

Heavenly Bodies

The audience wants to see people being made over, losing their weight, gaining beauty. They get what they bargained for and more, much more!

Rupture

An artist is marooned by snow. Then his unknown past comes to haunt him when he discovers an anonymous videotape among his belongings in his cellar.

She

What is the future of humanity? Are the dreams of today going to evolve into the nightmares of tomorrow?Â A creature is returning to Earth after centuries. What will civilisation make of her? And she of it?

Through a Mirror Clear

A writer faces a taboo in his family history. What is real and what is fantasy in his recollections?

Transgression

Time travel is possible but there are rules. Break them and there are consequences.

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The Visionary

A doctor finds a strange pathology in her patientsâ€™ eyes. She decides to operate on herself one night and discovers a personal history that she has being denying.

Without Blemish

Ah a new smart phone. What a release! What a liberation! What strange adventures might await. Be careful what you wish for!Â New technology contains as much potential for horror as ancient ruins.

Trial and Punishment: An Epic Poem

The world is teetering on the brink of collapse; politically, socially and environmentally. What can save it? A man and a woman from distant continents are drawn together to make a terrifying decision on the planet's future.

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Four Play: a play for four actors

Four actors are followed from their dressing room to the stage and back again as they perform 'Identity', a new mystery play on tour.

The Inspection

The Inspection is a full length play. It has not been performed as yet, though there has been a deal of interest by London producers. I include the whole play for free downloading. It charts the lives of two characters moving between their relationship as boys in the 1950s and today. Their Â interactions provide the backcloth to a central educational debate can Art be reduced Find Out More

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