Latest scribblings…
After The Rain OUT NOW!
My short story collection is out now from Hanesyn Publishing (full disclosure: that's my own press). Initially, it's available to subscribers to my email list (as a gift) and if you feel like getting the latest news, information on new releases and occasional...
Dragon Star
As promised, having raised more than £500 for SANDS in August, the audio version of Dragonstar is embedded below. Dragon Star is the story I wrote in the week after we lost our son, scribbled in a notebook, sat at my mother-in-laws and trying to chain the grief in the...
Cat. Bag. Wide Open Space.
Over on my wife's corner of the internet she has revealed that her next project is a short comic. The comic is an adaption of a flash fiction piece I wrote a scary amount of time ago now and that I have since adapted into a comic script. The story features a cat and...
I just feel like running.
Tomorrow I am running in the Barry Island 10k. This is the second 10K of the year after my dismal (but enjoyable) Cardiff Bay 10k in April where my feet were held together with tape and I was out of shape. My aim is to beat that time (1hr 18m) and I will be delighted...
Oubliette
Oubliette: A Tale of Draco The Dragon By Neil Beynon For Ziggy on his fifth birthday. We, a pair of apes, are sitting on a shell of rock, heated by molten metal, spinning round a flaming ball of gas, being flung through the universe at four hundred and ninety thousand...
Five
Bridgend, South Wales 23rd April 2018 Dear Ziggy, You should be five today. We should be putting balloons on the doors, making a cake and inviting your friends round for a party and bemoaning the fact your birthday is on a Monday this year. I should be telling your...