Town Destroyer

A few weeks ago I hit the headlines and had to hide under an ants heap of apologies for demolishing a local village, Dodleston, with a meteorite in my story, THE MEMORY ROCK published by The Wifiles (see what they’ve done there with the name?) It’s available for free reading at http://thewifiles.com/?p=631

Last week it became the turn of my own city of Chester to be turned inside out in TUMBLER’S GIFT. A young man makes an unusual living out of the tendency for locks to undo themselves in his vicinity. That’s fine when applied to padlocks and vehicles but what happens when it’s a portal to an alternate Earth? Read it for free in the wonderful online science fiction magazine Perihelion SF. The magazine started as a few pages stapled together in the early 1960s much like Sidereal, which my dad illustrated in the same era. Coincidentally, Sidereal’s editor was Eric Jones, who was one of the founders of the British Science Fiction Society. There is a different Eric Jones, who is an editor at Perihelion. What goes around, comes around. Here’s the link to my story there.

http://www.perihelionsf.com/1605/fiction_7.htm

Coincidentally, in that same issue is a great review of the anthology Twisted Tales IX: Wunderkind edited by J Richard Jacobs, published by DDP, in which is my EIDOLON REDOUBT story. It’s a historical fantasy based on a watch tower in Somerset during the Napoleonic wars. Not free but for those of you with a few pennies it can be yours here. http://hyperurl.co/fip106

Nelder News

I have my Prime Meridian SF short in an anthology. The anthology was commissioned by the Readers Club Avenue Park and is available free from their website here.

http://readersavenuepark.weebly.com/ or on Amazon at http://hyperurl.co/t7n22f