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I missed it.  Drat! Well, better late than never.  Here’s a partial list of my stories and where you can find them online. Chick-Lit and Granny-Lit “Destroying Angel”: Jotter’s Pad; October 2001“Dream On”: UK women’s magazine Chat (circulation 500,000); May 2000 Fantasy “Some Day my Prince Will Go” November 2010 at Daily Science Fiction “Unreal Estate” October 2010 Wily Writers “The Mummy’s Curse”: April 2009 issue of Flash Fiction Online“ Titch”…

The plan was to drop off an invoice at the Tourist board in Santa Cruz de La Palma, then take my laptop to Los Tilos to write at the bar there, and maybe have a stroll. It took ages to find the power cord for the laptop, and then I had to let it charge for a bit while I read email for a while. So one way and another,…

I woke up at 6 am and couldn’t get back to sleep. By 6:20, I gave up trying, and went out onto the balcony to see if I could learn another constellation. I took one look at the moon and Venus, and then I dashed back inside for my camera.

Dan Gaunt squirted half a tube of Tabasco into his chilli. It still tasted like ashes. He shovelled it in anyway. Kylie, his wife, stared at him. “Don’t you like it, love?” asked Kylie. “Tasteless.” Kylie’s eyes widened. “Chilli with added Tabasco is tasteless?” He slammed his napkin down. The magnets in its corners clanged as they hit the steel table. One broke off, and the freed corner floated like…