Fat – Golddust Magazine – September 2015 – A darkly comic and unsettling story of desperation, body shame, and self-destruction.
A Life on Track – Literally Stories – October 2016 – On a crowded railway platform, a man facing redundancy places his faith in calculation, only to discover how swiftly a life can come apart.
Pens Down – Close to the Bone – November 2016 – A lonely, furious schoolgirl turns a GCSE mock exam into the stage for her monstrous bid to be seen.
Watan – Literally Stories – December 2016 – In a rain-lashed Glasgow corner shop, a shopkeeper’s courtly monologue turns into a fierce reckoning with prejudice, poverty, and the meaning of belonging.
The Predator – McStorytellers – November 2017 – In a once-familiar haunt, an ageing libertine moves through a world of stale glamour and faltering memory.
Meeting Margery Mercer – McStorytellers – February 2018 – From behind his blinds, a lonely watcher becomes both saviour and monster.
Light in the Blackhouse – McStorytellers – March 2018 – Set against the stark beauty of the Isle of Lewis, this haunting tale traces how grief seeps through landscape, lineage, and memory, drawing the living ever closer to the dead.
Tagged – Soft Cartel – May 2018 – In the aftermath of his child’s birth, a father finds himself trapped between expectation and estrangement, as a crisis of identity opens into something far darker.
The Decent Thing – Fiction Junkies – May 2018 – When society makes survival a form of shame, one family discovers how easily care curdles into cruelty.
Boarding – McStorytellers – June 2018 – On a storm-lashed ferry crossing, a woman’s carefully ordered world is unsettled by unwanted intimacy with a stranger.
Phish on the Line – Shooter Magazine – August 2018 – Told through an email chain, this darkly comic story explores the shifting boundaries between manipulation, companionship, and control.
Vengeance is Mine – Close to the Bone – August 2018 – A grieving parent addresses an acquitted man in a chilling monologue where private grief metamorphoses into obsession.
Face to Face with Death – Whatever Keeps the Lights On – March 2019 – A vengeful gravedigger moonlights as a macabre craftsman, carving private reckonings for the dead while grappling with a grief he cannot bury.
The Ragged Frenchman – Literally Stories – January 2020 – In a snowbound mountain shelter, a stranded traveller is drawn into a haunting tale where history, folklore, and human desperation blur together.
Foundering – Flashback Fiction/Best Microfiction 2021 – October 2020 – On a lonely coast, a child is woken from sleep to witness a shipwreck.
Beseiged – Cafelit Magazine – November 2020 – A girl’s seaside game turns menacing as imagination, desperation, and the indifferent force of nature converge.
Alder, Beech, Hawthorn, and Hazel – Writer’s Egg Magazine – October 2021 – A vanished brother, a haunted wood, and a girl’s stubborn search converge in a quietly devastating tale of nature’s unnerving appetite.
A Spaceman Came Travelling – Idle Ink – May 2022 – A lonely child gazing into a dazzling night sky becomes the unwitting focus of a celestial power.
The Silver-Lined Ridge – Literally Stories – February 2025 – A father climbs Everest in a tale exploring mountaineering ethics and untethered ambition.
Listen – Down in the Dirt Magazine/2025 in a Flash – March 2025 – She lies awake in the small hours, listening to the altered silences of her house as dawn edges in on a life irrevocably changed.
The Kinmount Straight – Heavenly Flower Publishing – November 2025 – A weary driver on a haunted Scottish road journeys onwards as dusk falls.