17th July 2011 Maintenance update, primarily: Added links to Mousetrap, my first story in the Swarm Cycle Universe - having been waiting for a link to go up on the Swarm Cycle main page. Also sorted a number of technical issues with the text files side of things which will be irrelevant to you, given that you're sensibly looking at the web version ...
17th July 2011 OK, so normal service - which, is slow service - has clearly been resumed. For the moment, though, have another little bit of Ruth. And other, exciting things will be happening Real Soon Now.
19th April 2011 Well, rapid updating or what, eh? Have a new story, Magus, very short, and ... well, possibly slightly amusing?
17th April 2011 And more Ruth ... in fact two more parts (linked through, obviously) both of which are very short. Will try and get some other things up within a week or three. Yeah, yeah, I know ...
26th February 2011 Another short bit of Ruth goes up. And goes off in a direction which was definitively not part of the original plan. Part 4, another Wisdom and a new thing in the Chronicles 'universe' are all in the drafts pile, so ...
6th February 2011Long break - sorry - but have a couple of new stories - one not named after a book in the bible Caveat Lector and another Wisdom, Antithesis. The former is, to some extent, part of a much longer story that is probably never going to get written, the latter - well, its SciFi, and ...
Ruth, incidentally, as not been abandoned - its just a bit stuck, at the moment - but I should have something more to post relatively soon.
18th October 2010 Posted the first couple of (very short) episodes of a new story ... Ruth
24th September 2010 Sorted a major error on the 'stories' page ... have also more or less finished moving home so new content should be around Real Soon Now ...
1st September 2010 Added another Wisdom story - Conversion. This has been hanging around for ages but hopefully the joins aren't too apparent.
27th August 2010 And now the final part Numbers. Short stories - much quicker to write ...
26th August 2010 Posted the second and third (of four) parts of Numbers. Which might even be finsihed within a week ...
23rd August 2010 Ho, hum. Just when you thought the nightmare was over. Posted a 'new' story Numbers. Which is a (brief) beginning to a (much shorter) sequel to Chron.
On the bright side, I'm not being paid to write this, nor are you paying to read it. So that's OK ...
15th August 2010 Ho. Hum. So much for things getting simpler, Real Life, wise. However - have eventually - sort of Finished Chronicles. Which I hope isn't too much of a damp squib. Still loads of loose ends lying around - so expect some follow ups / sequels at some point in the future ...
29th June 2010 Well ... that was a bit of a shite month. Trying to get things together, here, though, so posted Chronicles 8c - which I'm trying to convince myself does finally set everyone up for the big ending ... and that's a triumph of hope over experience if ever there was one ...
Will try to get on top of my outstanding e-mails over the next couple of days. And should be posting a new story - and a new Wisdom - Real Soon Now ...
21st May 2010 Added another short bit of Chronicles ... 8b ... Sorry for the delay but the last couple of episodes are actively being worked on. But don't hold your breath ... I'm not going to have time to do much with this over the next few weeks.
Incidentally, the stats ASSTR send me indicate that a few people have e-mailed me over the past couple of weeks - but I haven't actually received said messages. If this was you - well, now you know why I never replied ... and feel free to have another go ...
22nd April 2010 Posted part 8a of Chronicles - three more to go I think ... and at least this one's quite short ... even if it overlaps - time wise - with Ch7 ...
14th April 2010 Posted Job 2 which, strangely enough, is the second part of the new two parter. Chronicles grinds on some time soon ...
10th April 2010 Posted Job 1 which is the first part of a new two parter, though I think it probably works as a story in its own right.
2nd April 2010 Posted Chronicles 7 ... in which the long delayed German jaunt finally happens. And quite a lot of other things, too ...
A new stand alone should be ready to post soon, and a further Wisdom ... hopefully in less than a month's time ...
3rd March 2010 Posted Wisdom: Penetration ... which is, frankly, a bit of a boys own adventure story, in a way. And not the sort of penetration you might expect, either.
Also changed the feedback page to include examples of actual feedback received to date ... which is why its now called reactions.
26th February 2010 Posted Chronicles Part 6f ... which is, more or less, 6e(ii) ... but moves things along a bit ...
Also passed the 50 000 downloads mark a week or so back, which means that on average about one in every thousand people who've looked at these stories have given me any sort of comment. Sigh ...
4th February 2010 Posted Wisdom: Alien which is sort of weird, IMHO, and not at all what I expected when I started writing these. And probably doesn't deal with the sort of aliens that you first thought of ...
23rd January 2010 Posted Chronicles 6e which isn't, in fact, 6d(ii) - pay attention at the back, there - but is pretty much two stories. No, actually, it is two stories. Just sort of intertwined. Oh, hell ... its an experiment ... read it and see. More Wisdom stuff in the pipeline, sadly.
14th January 2010 Well ... don't say I didn't warn you: Here's a second Wisdom story which is quite long ... and rather more involved than I'd originally intended. Back to Chronicles next time.
9th January 2010 Posted the - god help us all - sixteenth part of Chronicles Chapter 6d - although 6d(i) might have been more accurate. There's a second Wisdom story coming together, too, I'm sorry to say
2nd January 2010 Oh well, so much for Chronicles being finished within the year. The next bit - back in London with Dave - is here ... Developing the plot, again ... and dreaming of the conclusion ...
21st December 2009 Happy solstice, everyone. To celebrate (perhaps) here's yet another bit of Chronicles ... which once again has gone somewhere I didn't really expect. Hell, the thing was originally only going to be three parts long ...
8th December 2009 Added part 6a of Chronicles, which might be more a sort of 5f - except that even I thought that was a bit scary. Anyway, its quite short and the plot moves on a little more, even if no-one actually ends up in bed with anyone else. I know, I know ... maybe next time?
30th November 2009 Wanted to sort some fairly major typos in Chron 5e - I kind of forgot to proof read the thing - but didn't want to simply post edits. So have Wisdom ... just a scene setting taster at the moment, but an introduction to a new series of interlinked but not sequential sci-fi stories, involving characters with fewer moral quibbles (and much more power) than the nice people in Chronicles ...
27th November 2009 Added Chronicles 5e: more plot development ... maybe also character development ... see what you think.
Also sorted some typos and stuff in previous installments. Nothing much has happened with the new "stand alones", but ...
11th November 2009 Added Chronicles 5d: a slightly darker episode ... at least at first ... with a twist that you might have predicted but I certainly wouldn't have ...
A couple of new "stand alones" in progress, too, which may see the light of day at some point ...
3rd November 2009 Added Chronicles 5c which means the whole thing is now more than 40 000 words long (that's a few hours of my life I'll never get back) ... 5d is almost ready ... Also added some links to people whose stories I've enjoyed - and turned everything green ...
25th October 2009 Added Chronicles 5a and 5b. Moving the plot along here, preparing for Quite a Lot Of Things To Happen in the next couple of episodes ...
3rd October 2009 Added Chronicles 4a and 4b Still not sure where its going, but here it is again. Revised the style sheets again ...
This time I might really have sorted the feedback form(s) - unless everyone who's contacted me has been extremely shy ... but thanks for the nice words, anyway ...
September 29th 2009 Added a new stand alone - Genesis - which is a kind of an every day story of anarcho hippy folks. And sort of vaguely true - except for the wife and kids bit, actually. Chronicles has kind of ground to a halt for the moment - I think my planned conclusion may have to be spun off as a new story as it will take years to get there from where we are at present. Anybody got any suggestions as to where it should go? Oh, and, yes - the Germans are due to make a reappearance, to reassure an anonymous contact ...
I may also have sorted out a glitch in the reply form that was blocking contact details. Apologies if you replied and I appear to have ignored it!
September 24th 2009 Everything's gone orange!
Added Chronicles 3a and 3b, on the web and as text. Does anyone else think this is getting out of hand?
Added a basic feedback form to all of the web pages and a print friendly style sheet so the web versions should now print more efficiently. Working on a couple of stand alones which may see the light of day sometime ...
September 11th 2009 - added Chronicles 1b and 2, as well as text/FTP versions of both Chronicles and Exodus. Did some minor updating of the style sheets, restructured most of the story links to save myself having to update all of the pages all of the time ...
September 4th 2009 - posted first three stories. With considerable trepidation, but ...