A list of published works, including details of publication history and links to online copies where appropriate.

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Selected Short Fiction

• The New Ships (coming soon) is the sequel to Fallout, featuring the further adventures of Ann Szkatula. This time, she’s trying to rescue a family member who’s accidentally stumbled onto the truth about the nuclear explosion referred to in the previous story.
• Fangbanger (coming soon) is a fast-paced tale of time-travelling vampire slayers in Amsterdam.
• Entropic Angel. Due to appear in the anthology Dark Spires from Wizard’s Tower Press, November 2010. This  is a quasi-supernatural Western set in Somerset in the near future, featuring angels, wind farms, crossbows, and lone drifters wearing hair scrunchies.
• The Bigger The Star, The Faster It Burns. Due to appear in the anthology 2020 Visions from M-Brane Press, November 2010. This story is probably best described as a fantasy love story with an Elvis soundtrack. The day after I wrote it, I read the first draft aloud to a room full of students at Bath Spa University, as part of a lecture on creative writing. It  charts the course of the doomed affair between a disillusioned London photographer named Ed and Natalie, the smalltown diner waitress he meets on his way to visit a UFO crash site near the Welsh border.
• Fallout. Appeared in Conflicts from Newcon Press, April 2010 – The story of how Ann Szkatula led an American boy band on a motorcycle tour of the abandoned cities of South West England, twenty years after they were irradiated by a nuclear detonation.
• The Church of Accelerated Redemption (with Aliette de Bodard). Appeared in Shine from Solaris Books, April 2010 – Aliette de Bodard is a fellow Interzone writer who lives in Paris. We collaborated on this story via email in the autumn and winter of 2008, and had a lot of fun in the process. The initial inspiration came from a photograph of a street protest, and a girl in a gas mask.
• Gonzo Laptop. Appeared in Hub Magazine, January 2010 – What would happen if you took an artificial intelligence and uploaded it with everything an author ever wrote? Would it have enough material there to simulate that author’s personality, or would there be missing pieces? And what happens if that author was a rebel to start with?
  
• What Would Nicolas Cage Have Done? Appeared in Future Bristol from Swimming Kangaroo Books (USA), April 2009 – I read the first scene of this story at the launch event for the Future Bristol anthology, and had the audience on the edge of their seats – so much so, they actually groaned when I said I wouldn’t read any more.
• Memory Dust. Appeared in Interzone 220, January 2009 - Utilising the same “random jumping” concept as Six Lights Off Green Scar, this story was my attempt at a full-throttle retro space romp, with a cynical hero, a ruined Lovecraftian city, and a dusty planet circling a dying star.
• Flotsam. Appeared in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008. Reprinted in Concept Sci-Fi, November 2008 – Another sequel to The Last Reef, this story was inspired one bank holiday weekend in 2007, by a scattering of oil tankers lying at anchor off the coast of Pembrokeshire.
• Arches. Appeared in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – The initial idea for Arches came to me on a DLR train from Island Gardens to West India Quay. I was with with my brother. I’d been helping him move house and now we were on our way to a tapas bar to get something to eat. The lights of Canary Wharf shone through the rain. In the carriage there was this young Chinese guy wearing a German army shirt. He was scratching at a fresh tatoo on his forearm. Lightning flickered over the Thames. It was a rainy night, and as we descended from the brightly-lit platform to the dark street, it felt as if we were being carried from one world to another.
• Hot Rain. Appeared in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 - Set in Buenos Aires, this is the second story to feature Kenji Shiraki, the protagonist of The Last Reef, and expands on an incident from Kenji’s past that was mentioned in that story.
• Falling Apart. Appeared in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008. This story is set in a near-future version of  Weston-super-Mare, a real life Victorian seaside resort in Somerset, on the banks of the Severn Estuary. It’s a story of entropy and collapse; everything’s failing and falling apart, and the challenge faced by both the writer and the main character was to wring some sort of positivity from the ending.
• The Winding Curve (with Rob Starr). Appeared in Rob’s collection Sophistry By Degrees from Stonegarden.net (USA), January 2008 – This is a classic revenge story. The everyman character strikes back at a young hoodlum on a motor scooter, in revenge for the death of his wife at the hands of another youth, a year previously. It’s not a happy story, but its an exploration of blame and empowerment. The initial idea occurred to me while driving with my youngest daughter on the coast road between Portishead and Clevedon, and I wrote it down as soon as I got home. But I didn’t know how to approach it, so I sent it to Rob and between us, we hammered it out, and Rob included the finished version in his second short story collection, Sophistry By Degrees.
• Pod Dreams of Tuckertown. Appeared in Byzarium (USA), October 2007. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – After Arches and The Redoubt, I wanted to cut loose and write about humans enslaved by giant cockroaches in retro silver saucers… and this is what I came up with.
• The Redoubt. Appeared in Aphelion (USA), December 2007. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – The setting for this story was inspired by a dusty week I spent in France at the age of sixteen, camping with friends in the grounds of an Ecumenical monastery near Cluny. Although the characters and events in the story are mostly fictitious, I’ve tried to describe the countryside, the village church and the thunderstorm as closely as I can to the way I remember them.
• A Necklace of Ivy (Updated). Appeared in Cambrensis: Short Story Wales (Wales), September 1995. Updated version appeared in Fiction Online, September 2007. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008. Reprinted in Elastic Press Sampler: BSFA Special Edition No.3, October 2008 – I wrote the first draft of this story as a penniless student in the summer of 1992, after walking with my (then) girlfriend in some woods in the rain. It first appeared in the Welsh short story magazine Cambrensis, edited by the late Arthur Smith, before being substantially rewritten for publication in issue 4 of the online magazine Fiction.
• Ack-Ack Macaque. Appeared in Interzone 212, September 2007. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008. Reprinted in Planet Interzone from Anthology Builder, October 2008, and The Blue Screen of Death from Anthology Builder, April 2009. Appeared as a podcast read by the author on Transmissions From Beyond (TTA Press), July 2009. Winner of Interzone Readers’ Poll for best short story of 2007 – Ack-Ack Macaque was my second sale to Interzone, appearing in issue 212. Warren Ellis memorably described it as: “The commercialisation of a web animation into some diseased Max Headroom as metaphor for the wreckage of a fucked-up relationship.”
• Cat in a Box. Appeared in Aphelion (USA), November 2005, under the title The Kitten Box. Appeared in Ennea (Greece), October 2006. Reprinted under the current title in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – I redrafted and retitled this story following its appearance in Aphelion, because an American reader pointed out that “kitten box” has the same meaning as “litter tray” in some parts of the USA.
• Dear Colleague. Appeared in Quantum Muse (USA), April 2006. An examination of the commercial applications of prediction engines.
• The Last Reef. Appeared in Interzone 202, February 2006. Reprinted in Best SF, June 2007. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008. Appeared as a podcast on Transmissions From Beyond (TTA Press), December 2008. Came sixth in Interzone Readers’ Poll for best short story of 2006 – The Last Reef was my first sale to Interzone. It picked up a number of good reviews, was long-listed for both the BSFA and BFS awards for Best Short Story. It has since appeared as a podcast on the TTA Press website, been reprinted on the Best SF website, and been adapted for radio in the United States.
• Sunsets and Hamburgers. Appeared in Byzarium (USA), January 2006. Reprinted in Bli Panika (Israel), October 2006. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008. Reprinted in Phantastes (Portugal) September 2008. Awarded the Firebrand Great Fiction Award from SFreader.com – This was my first experiment with what Rudy Rucker calls “Transrealism” – taking chunks of autobiography and treating them as science fiction. It was published by Byzarium in both text and audio formats, the latter as a free MP3 download read by the American actress, Alice Dragoon. Translated versions of Sunsets and Hamburgers have also appeared in the Israeli magazine Bli Panika and the Portuguese magazine Phantastes. SF Reader called the story “profound and unforgettable” and awarded it their monthly Firebrand Great Fiction Award.
• Six Lights off Green Scar. Appeared in Aphelion (USA), April 2005. Reprinted in translated form in Nowa Fantastyka (Poland), August 2005. Updated & reprinted in Infinity Plus, June 2007. Updated version reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – After appearing in Aphelion, “Six Lights” was translated into Polish for the magazine Nowa Fantastyka, before being heavily revised for the Infinity Plus website in June 2007, where it appeared alongside work by Michael Moorcock, Jack Vance, Gene Wolfe, and Greg Egan.
• Distant Galaxies Colliding. Appeared in Quantum Muse (USA), February 2005. Reprinted in Ennea (Greece), January 2006. Reprinted in Infinity Plus, August 2007. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – After appearing in Quantum Muse in 2005, this story was translated and reprinted in the Greek magazine Ennea, which regularly attracts 200,000+ readers, potentially making Distant Galaxies Colliding one of my most widely-read stories. In 2007, it was archived – in English – on the Infinity Plus website as part of that site’s tenth anniversary celebrations.
• Jaguars Falling From The Sky. Appeared in Quantum Muse (USA), July 2004 – The success of Catch A Burning Star encouraged me to write and submit further stories. This was the first, and it appeared in Quantum Muse a few weeks after the birth of my first daughter.
• Morning Star. Originally appeared in Aphelion (USA), April 2004 under the title Catch A Burning Star. Revised, retitled and reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – This cyberpunk-influenced story was written while my wife and I were expecting our first child. Originally published in Aphelion in April 2004 under the title Catch a Burning Star, it was subsequently included in that webzine’s “Best of 2004″ selection.
• Marsflight (Part 4). Appeared on the website of the Mars Society UK, April 2000
• Marsflight (Part 3). Appeared on the website of the Mars Society UK, March 2000
• Marsflight (Part 2). Appeared on the website of the Mars Society UK, February 2000
• Marsflight (Part 1). Appeared on the website of the Mars Society UK, January 2000
• Jazz. Appeared in Cambrensis: Short Story Wales (Wales), 1993. Reprinted in Painting Pontypridd, an anthology of student writing from The Polytechnic of Wales, 1991.
• Maybe We Can Catch A Movie? Appeared in Angry, 1992
• Memoirs. Appeared in Cambrensis: Short Story Wales (Wales), 1992
• The Entropy Waltz. Appeared in The Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1991, Propaganda Press,1991
• Shadows. Appeared in The Rosy Body Cross, 1989. Reprinted in Fatea as “Angel Falls”, 1990

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Selected Flash Fiction*

• Approaching Storm. Appeared in Outshine, February 2009. Reprinted in the Shine anthology from Solaris books, April 2010 – Possibly the shortest story I have ever had published, at 25 words in length.
• Carnival – I have been to the Notting Hill Carnival in London a couple of times, but the idea for this piece was sparked by a flash fiction piece written by Shaun C Green.
  
• Close Encounter - Unsurprisingly, this piece occurred to me on a train, somwhere between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads.
• Coffee House. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008 – A slightly fictionalized account of something that happened to me during a business trip to Amsterdam.
• Fresh Meat. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008
• God’s Gift - This piece was written and read out during the flash fiction workshop I co-hosted at Orbital 2008.
• Hot Rats
• Life Goes Wrong
• Lost Toys. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008
• Mid Life Crisis
• My New Eyes
• Natalie. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008
• Providence. Appeared in TANK Magazine, 2002
• Roswell
• Snowball. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008
• Thai Curry. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008. Reprinted in Efímero Ezine (Spain), June 2007
• The Long Walk Aft. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008. Reprinted in The Last Reef and Other Stories from Elastic Press, August 2008 – It was the wet summer of 2007 and I was in between writing projects. I had recently published a number of short stories but the twin distractions of a demanding day job and a young family meant I was often too tired to sit down at the keyboard at the end of the week – certainly too tired to produce anything worth reading. I needed a way to motivate myself. It was too easy to collapse in front of the TV with a beer on a Friday night. I needed an exercise to drag me off the sofa and keep me writing. And so I started writing flash fiction. I promised myself I’d write a new piece each and every week. And to keep me honest, I started posting the results on my website under the title “Friday Flash Fiction”. It was just a bit of fun, really. I didn’t expect anyone else to take much notice. But within a few weeks (and much to my surprise) there were seven other writers doing the same thing – the Friday Flash Fictioneers. This particular piece of Friday Flash Fiction came to me in a dream. I woke up one morning having dreamt I’d written a story, and remembered enough to copy down this creepy scene.
• The Point Furthest From The Sun. Reprinted in Illuminations, 2008
• Tranquility. Appeared in TANK Magazine, 2002
• Victoria Rooms

*All flash fiction pieces listed here first appeared on my web site except where noted.

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Selected Poetry

• A Pocketful of Stones. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• Ankle Chain. Appeared in Working Titles, 1994. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• April Wednesday Park. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Auld Sod. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• By The Blank Window. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• Coming Home. Appeared in Aphelion, February 2004. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Cresting The Hill. Appeared in Orion From A New Perspective, 1992
• Crown of Thorns. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• Cutting. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• Diaspora. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006. Reprinted in Focus, October 2007.
• Don’t Look Back. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• Double Sunrise. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Driven. Appeared in Neverland, 1992
• Fireworks, Trumpets. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• First Steps. Appeared in Decanto, June 2005. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Gods and Drunkards. Appreared in Neverland, 1992
• Goodbye. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• How Could You Swear? Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• I Left You. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• In The First Minutes. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Living In The Past. Appeared in Aphelion, September 2004. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Long, Solitary Illness of the Mind. Appreared in Neverland, 1992
• Los Muertos. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Martian Winter. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Morgan Street. Appeared in Avon Literary Intelligencer, 1992. Reprinted in Neverland, 1992. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Nevada. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006. Reprinted in Focus, October 2007.
• November. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Nutshell. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Oi! People of Earth. Appeared in Aphelion, March 2005. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Olympus Mons. Appeared Los Muertos, 2006. Reprinted in Focus, October 2007.
• One Whole Day. Appeared in Neverland, 1992. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Our First Poet. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Pontypridd. Appeared Los Muertos, 2006.
• Purple Heart. Appeared Los Muertos, 2006.
• Ragnarok. Appeared Los Muertos, 2006. Reprinted in Focus, October 2007.
• Red Shoes. Appreared in Neverland, 1992
• Red Smoky Rising. Appreared in Neverland, 1992. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Rock Goblins. Appeared in The Rosy Body Cross #1, 1988.
• Rosy. Appeared in The Rosy Body Cross #2, November 1989
• Scrying. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• She Drove Her Eyes. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Sheffield. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Shopping. Appeared in Avanti! #1, 1988
• Shore Leave. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Snowball. Appeared in Phase #4, August 2003. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• Something Wonderful. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Stars Moon Sun Etc. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Sunday Morning, Drunk To Hell. Appeared in Orion From A New Perspective, 1992. Reprinted in Neverland, 1992
• Sunset. Appeared in Avanti! #1, 1988
• Taize. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Taking Shelter. Appeared in The Cardiff Poet, 1992
• The Black Dress. Appeared in The Cardiff Poet, 1992. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• The Clock Strikes. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• The Mirror Grim. Appreared in Neverland, 1992
• The Red Car. Appeared in The Cardiff Poet, 1992
• The Saucers Are Landing. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• The Tall Ships Departing. Appeared in Coffeehouse Poetry, May 2004. Reprinted in Los Muertos, 2006
• We Have Come To Find You. Appeared in Los Muertos, 2006
• Year Zero. Appeared Los Muertos, 2006. Reprinted in Focus, October 2007.