Strange Times - Part 5: The Disappearance of Phil Collins
[1985] It was a rainy Saturday and I had settled on the back veranda with a book to read – The Trial – when Emma burst into the backyard,...
Strange Times - Part 2: Hell Coach
[1979] Peter has asked me to write about something weird for his anthology. I didn’t have to think very far at all, I knew what I’d write...
Strange Times - Part 1: Temporal Telephone
[1988] I woke up close to four in the morning; the phone was ringing at the end of the street again. If I didn’t get up and pick it up,...
Upon Viewing
Urban legends have little basis in concrete facts, statistics or evidence. That’s why I dislike them. Almost all urban legends rely on...
Questions in Water
The sands rolled and rocked beneath their feet, their cadence of step rising and falling as they crested the dunes, only to fall under...
The Ones We Don’t Play With
[originally intended for the Haverbrook series of short stories, this one didn't end up meshing with the rest of them in terms of the...