Stories

Uppendham Boys School has been rocked by scandal. The cause is the Pyxides, Uppendham's version of prefects.

2007 Anthology

In an England without potatoes, Tim is a spudhunter. The best. Really - the very, very best.

What would you do if you were to come across someone building a door in the middle of a forest?

The road to Valhalla goes through hell.

Noel is hurt from an attempted murder, and his family decides to deliver a brand of justice all their own.

The year is 2318, and Mankind has gone to the stars leaving a dying Earth. Mankind's descendants now populate the Terran Federation, a group of 200 worlds held together by uneasy bonds. A veneer of calm hides tensions; Man may have left Earth but he has brought most of its problems with him to the stars. The veneer of calm is about to be shattered though, and one man finds himself reluctantly thrown into the vortex, his fate and the Federation's linked.

Ben wants to go to the high school dance.

When Dallas finds himself out of a residence, he’s forced to go live with his ultra-conservative grandmother who is hell-bent on “beating the devil out of him.” Church three times a week, counseling with the youth minister, and a curfew? Dallas is certain his life is over until a cute, single gay boy shows up right across the street. Sounds like a match made in heaven, right? Dallas sure thinks it is. But when he starts falling madly in love with a man he cannot have, things get messy.

A group of friends find more than riches when they set out to explore an abandoned house.