Short fiction

Various short stories include…

The Chicken Run 1991 Chapman, vol 63
Cats. 1995 Chapman, vol 81
Garden Birds. 1993; Short-listed for the Ian St James Award, and published in Acclaim  vol2, 1994
Blank Canvas. 2002. Short-listed for Wells Festival of Literature
Blackthorn Winter. 2005 – which, modified, became Chapter 1 of The Embalmer’s Book of Recipes

I have reproduced two other stories here in full, as they were part of my Tell Them Our Stories project with the European Genomics Foundation about specimens (‘patients’) in the Surgeons’ Hall Museum, Edinburgh