Short Stories

Mandy Moran is a failed novelist scraping a living (and funding her drug addiction) by writing creative suicide notes for others.

A bank robbery goes horribly wrong, resulting in a trail of corpses and millions of dollars being scattered across San Francisco.

Anechoic chambers are the quietest places on Earth, so quiet that decibels are negative. Desperate to secure tenure through her research, Associate Professor Veronica Lee abducts a stranger and locks him in the chamber to observe his slide into insanity.

For Marcus, it’s hard being dead. Struggling with technology, placating the neighbour’s schnauzer and trying to get a date. He’s trying but none of these things are easy.

Having reaped the benefits of a Faustian bargain, Toby confronts the succubus who seduced him into the deal and the reality of what he faces in the next life.

Over drinks in a grotty SOHO bar, a vampire pours her heart out to her next meal – lamenting her inability to find love, or get a tattoo. The latter being more important. First published in the HKWC Hong Kong Gothic Anthology.

Reduced to a cannister of ashes, Dr Alistair Moran’s legacy is one of revenge on his cheating spouse and disloyal children.

After killing her latest lover, Sally decides that the measure of a good husband is his proficiency in disposing of inconvenient corpses.