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As a taster, here's an excerpt from my upcoming horror short story The Slender Man:TranscriptStephen Connor / Keston, Lancashire, England / 12.2.83Interviewer: Det. Derek BarnesSC: Is it on?DB: Yes, it’s on.SC: Is anyone listening?DB: It’s just you and me and the tape recorder.SC: There’s no-one in the other room?DB: Why don’t you tell me what… Continue reading The Slender Man ebook – excerpt

My internet friend and fellow Kindle All Star Tony Healey is about to publish Far From Home 2: Commander, and to celebrate the launch he is giving three people the chance to appear as a character in the third installment in the series, Far From Home 3: Hero. To win this chance all you have… Continue reading Become a Far From Home Hero

On the 27th of October I will be releasing my short horror story, The Slender Man. It's about 18,000 words long (so quite a long short story), and will be available as an ebook via Amazon and Smashwords. The Slender Man is a pretty terrifying character, I think - read more about him here -… Continue reading The Slender Man – ebook launch

I blogged recently about recording some short stories for the Tunbridge Wells 2012 Electric Lantern Festival with Sam Marlow. Well, the recordings have now been edited and electronically jiggered into mp3 files that you can download and listen to, and I've also converted the stories into ebook formats that you can download from Smashwords:After Jeff… Continue reading All’s Wells Read That Ends Wells Read

Bradley Wiggins reads Simon John CoxLast night I recorded the two short stories that I wrote for the Tunbridge Wells Electric Lantern Festival. Sam Marlow and I went to Calverley Grounds and then to the old cinema to record my two pieces, entitled The Reality Machines and After Jeff Goldblum And The Ripples In The… Continue reading Reality Machines, Jeff Goldblum and Goth Christmas

I've finally almost finished editing the last of the Tunbridge Wells Writers pieces for the 2012 Electric Lantern Festival. There's a huge variety within them, and a variety of locations in and around Tunbridge Wells - the brief was to write a piece that was either to do with a certain place in Tunbridge Wells… Continue reading TWW ELF Editing

I haven't been writing much on here lately, but that's because, as I said not long ago, I have been like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD as far as actual real writing is concerned.Plus there's my job and life etc. Anyway. I've made progress, the most significant of which being that I have finished two… Continue reading TWELF Night

100 Word Challenge #47Prompt:A garage that supplies drinks instead of fuel has caused bemusement among drivers. The three pumps, which deliver tea, coffee and milk, have flummoxed motorists, many of whom have suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage to their engines after mistakenly filling up with ten gallons of espresso. “I only noticed because… Continue reading 100WC #47 – And finally…

100 Word Challenge #46Prompt: ...in the dark recess of my mind...They talk about me all the time. They think I can’t hear them. They think I’m gone for good, but I’m not. I just can’t come back.This is where I live now: in the dark recess of my mind. Where life is peaceful and even… Continue reading 100WC #46 – PVS

100 Word Challenge #45Prompt: There's a real buzz about this placeGrimed windows, thick with dust, a door restrained by nails and wood. Stubborn prongs of weeds forcing slow cracks in mortar. Scabs of paint that flake and flutter in the wind. A plastic sign with missing letters, a tooth-decay smile, gaps marked by algae shadows… Continue reading 100WC #45 – The Age Of Austerity