34: "...but rereading at a later date so much had leaked away of the living memory it had become incomprehensible useless to my purpose."

33: "My murderer will be (or, more specifically, is) a person of very special character."

32: "At first sight, they look badly matched, him all honey, her all vinegar, but deep down, they're the same."

31: "Belgium's artistic pedigree is out of all proportion to its size."

I've had the following published since October last year. Available from all the ususl outlets.

30: "I closed my eyes and visualised an undulating line, leading from the centre of my chest toward the Thames in the distance."

29: "A man who isn't satisfied with the pleasures a woman can give him in one night is putting a noose around his neck."

New film project. Script written. Actors sourced. Still lo-fi. Bullet engraved. Title familiar to some...

Will be dipping my toe in Suffolk on Saturday...come along!

28: "a neon at a vacant mall / dusty with sunset rags / broadcasts quarantine bingo / free penguin parade on a virtual bridge."

27: "The man sitting next to Janvier was a whole different person now, a human mass on whom no one had any purchase, an almost frightening monolith."

26: "I suppose that nobody really knows anyone - particularly if you all you see are the expensive dresses and glittering jewels - for everyone has their private sorrows."

My 13th short story collection is now available from the World Fantasy Award Winning @blackshuckbooks.bsky.social Copies arrived today! blackshuckbooks.co.uk/somnambulant...

25: "Perhaps he had been afraid all his life."

24: "It is an unacknowledged fact that pain can be infinite, but goodness never loses its capacity to surprise."

Yesterday I attended the brilliant SykeHouse Film and Writer’s Festival where my short film, "Armadillotown", not only premiered and was well-received, but which later went on to win in the Best Experimental Short Film category. It was an absolute blast! Thanks to Dave Jeffery for the photo.

23: "You see, each one of us has our own way of thinking and behaviour which others find incomprehensible."

22: "If it is possible to feel grief for the first time - without someone being dead - this is the moment."

Next Saturday we're running this event at The Forum (@theforumnorwich.bsky.social) in Norwich. Over 40 creatives from publishers to authors to zinemakers. Please share and pop along!

21: "I've continued researching men who were madly in love with women they barely knew."

20: "If they were quick, they could still have their glass of beer."

As it's been announced in the Black Shuck Books newsletter, I'm delighted to confirm that my (appropriately) 13th short story collection, "Somnambulant Hearts", will be published by them in June. blackshuckbooks.co.uk/somnambulant...

19: "They drank in what they saw. A dying star, bloated, cool and vast. A red ember, defiantly swollen, teetering on the edge of collapse."

18: "Maigret was looking at the budgerigars in the cage, through which a sunbeam passed."

17: "These nights, the whistle got the coyotes started, and then the wolves."

"The Good Men" can be read as a riff on the 1962 film, "Les Bonnes Femmes", directed by Claude Chabrol, but with the genders reversed and the action relocated from a Parisian domestic appliance store to a Birmingham garage... Only a fiver (plus postage) here: www.salopress.com/store-2/the-...

Salò Press are now publishing short stories under a new imprint named Infidelities (with poetry distinct under the Flirtations imprint). The first five are up for pre-orders (including my short story, The Good Men), available individually or in a bundle. Check out the link: www.salopress.com/store/

16: "The Fool sees in the hearts of the so-called ordinary people he has met that they are not in fact ordinary at all."

15: "It had been a love affair fuelled by the adrenalin and fury of war."

14: "That evening the villagers gathered around the box spinney, linking hands with their children, singing softly as they circled the trees."