Infinite Gossip

I synthesised a new element.

I slipped away while you were distracted— it's too late to catch me now.

We left Seaworld and headed west, out past the dune-swept ruins and rusted towns where worn sandstone flowed into clay ponds and not a single dolphin reminded us of our blossoming.

The party was so good that, by the end, no one was able to leave.

Coming home from work I went a different way.

We touched down on Macguffin World, where every key unlocked another key, and every symbol was referent to another symbol, and each piece of map was missing a piece of map, including the pieces that themselves fit into larger pieces, which was all of them…

This is what I learned about publishing short stories online in 2025: worth doing if you get the chance but don't be too critical of yourself if you can't.

In April the CEO and CFO were arrested and the liquidators moved in to recover what they could, which was only a little, here and there, since the huge debts the company had run up were against a theoretical market value plus a little capital, both of whi…

I got a job as a professional friend to the tall, pale son of a rich man who I met while removing the sale sign outside a house that he owned.

Message to the dungeonmaster: this morning on the dungeon floor your torturers are finally busying themselves with restocking the barrows and baskets of their stalls with fresh new miseries, and not before time, and it's wonderful, after so many nights of…

Up the corridor come your friend and the kid they look after, their kid, excuse the phrasing, awakening as they stomp towards you the memory that you told them that they could come by to visit you any time at work, and here they've come to collect - and t…

Let me tell you about my Saab.

Hello friends.

We were fighting and I was losing.

The situation in town was not great.