PUBLISHED STORIES
Dragon Rising (published on Daily Science Fiction)
You (published on Every Day Fiction)
Ella (published on Every Day Fiction)
Undone, a tale told in 140 tweets (published on Twitter, shortlisted for MsLexia Fiction Prize)
3am (published on Every Day Weirdness)
Home (published on Thrillers, Killers 'N' Chillers)
The Ghoul (published on Every Day Weirdness)
The Love Stone (published on Every Day Fiction)
I Never Thought It Would Come To This (poem from the Long Winter, published on TomLit)
You (published on Every Day Fiction)
Ella (published on Every Day Fiction)
Undone, a tale told in 140 tweets (published on Twitter, shortlisted for MsLexia Fiction Prize)
3am (published on Every Day Weirdness)
Home (published on Thrillers, Killers 'N' Chillers)
The Ghoul (published on Every Day Weirdness)
The Love Stone (published on Every Day Fiction)
I Never Thought It Would Come To This (poem from the Long Winter, published on TomLit)
THE LONG WINTER
Seashore
This seashore is littered with death,
Discarded shells bereft of flesh.
My footsteps are washed by the tide
As the wind blows and the seagull cries.
The phone call comes and I'm not surprised
To see no tears in my mother’s eyes.
I've nothing to say to her; no words are left.
There is only the loss itself.
This seashore is littered with death,
Discarded shells bereft of flesh.
My footsteps are washed by the tide
As the wind blows and the seagull cries.
The phone call comes and I'm not surprised
To see no tears in my mother’s eyes.
I've nothing to say to her; no words are left.
There is only the loss itself.
Read more Long Winter poems here
DREAMS
Tom Cruise was a vampire
Last night I dreamed
That Tom Cruise was a vampire
And I was his best mate.
He was trying to figure out
Who was causing all the deadly landslides.
He suspected the journalist,
Who suspected him back.
And someone tried to kill him
With a silver rifle, but I saved his life.
A woman tried (and failed) to kill him
With fake price tags on the Swedish fish.
“He’s a vampire!” she screamed.
“We know,” said the woman
At the sweet shop checkout.
“He told me yesterday. He’s very open about it.”
Last night I dreamed
That Tom Cruise was a vampire
And I was his best mate.
He was trying to figure out
Who was causing all the deadly landslides.
He suspected the journalist,
Who suspected him back.
And someone tried to kill him
With a silver rifle, but I saved his life.
A woman tried (and failed) to kill him
With fake price tags on the Swedish fish.
“He’s a vampire!” she screamed.
“We know,” said the woman
At the sweet shop checkout.
“He told me yesterday. He’s very open about it.”
Read more Dreams here
TINY TALES
"I have nine lives," she said grimly.
"I'm trying to get through them as quickly as possible."
She stepped off the ledge.
Read more Tiny Tales here
"I'm trying to get through them as quickly as possible."
She stepped off the ledge.
Read more Tiny Tales here
© SE Gilbey