Great news. An expired voucher for free coffee saves the world in my new short story "The Darken Loop" which has been accepted by Jupiter SF magazine for publication in the January 2009 issue. Featuring the same characters, the story is a prequel to my earlier piece "The Ceres Configuration", which was published in Jupiter back in 2004. In the five years since it began, Jupiter magazine has become widely respected in the sci-fi small press field, both in the UK and across the pond, so I'm very pleased that this story has found such a good home. Click here to go to the Jupiter SF website.
I woke up early this morning on my 50th birthday. It was as bright outside as it would ever be at 5am due to it being the summer solstice, the longest period of daylight time. From here on, the nights get longer. Sitting in bed with a cup of tea I started to think about some of the first stories I wrote, and a few memories came back to me. The first thing I remember writing was in my penultimate year in primary school, so we're talking 1983-4. Successfully combining two major phobias of mine, it was called "Tarantursnake" and took up a whopping four pages of my English workbook. I remember getting a decent mark for it, but the only thing I could remember from the story itself was a man hanging on for dear life to a pole suspended over a pit of tarantursnakes. In fact, that may have been the whole thing. I'm not so sure it followed any conventional rules of narrative. Later, in 1987, in high school, a collection of us smuggled copies of the newly published paperback of
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