Fiction and poetry

The Meinir Davies Casebook

A collection of short fiction featuring Welsh female detective Meinir Davies in fin-de-siècle London, accompanied by Sherlock Holmes, Dorcas Dene, et al.

You can also read an interview with Meinir on Books By Women.

Researcher Wanted, Ko-Fi

Contemporary Gothic novella: Matthew’s a freelancer, and freelancers have to do what they can to get by. He doesn’t much like the idea of being an “assistant”, but Sandy is a charming older historian, and she promises an interesting story: a family curse lies dormant hidden somewhere in Edinburgh, and perhaps Matthew can help break it?

Daily Very Short Stories on Twitter (#vss365)

This is an ongoing thread of tweet-length stories.

‘In Darkness‘, Dear Damsels (theme: Retreat)

You can also listen to this story, read by me, on Ko-Fi.

‘22 minutes’, in Unspoken (chapbook from Exeter Publishing)

‘Supper at the Bryn Ddu‘, Ko-Fi (first in a series of DI Dylan Jones mysteries in South Wales)

DI Jones is called to a suspicious death at the Bryn Ddu lodge: a dead girl the lodge owners say broke in to one of their rooms with two young female accomplices. No one knows how she died, but her body reveals clues about how she lived.

‘Toffees and Raindrops‘, Ko-Fi (a fairy and brownie join forces to escape the afterlife)

‘Dull‘, The Junction (in which a politician gets comeuppance and realises a harsh truth about himself)

‘Dull’, Paragraph Planet, 26 January 2021 (A micro-fiction produced while working on the longer story above; Paragraph Planet changes its content daily, so you’ll need to choose the specific date to read)

‘Spinning Teacups‘, Lit Up (a short Halloween fiction about the danger of drinking the tea)

You can also listen to this story, read by me, on Ko-Fi.

‘Shush’, The Delinquent

‘Thirst’, The Delinquent