A new short story of mine, entitled Flea, is featured on the Lablit website.
I know I’ve been pretty quiet lately, so here is a little taster of what I have been working on. 
Flea is a very short story that takes place in a pub called the Talbot Arms, that asks: Would you rather be the rat or the flea? The answer is not as straightforward as you may think.
I have been spending a lot of my time lately writing about animals: Flea is the first of a series of very short stories that explore our similarities to certain creatures, so keep an eye out as more start to pop up in the coming months. All of them are short enough to read on the way to work: they are all going to about the same length as a tube ride. (Of course, the points at which human and animal characteristics and instinct overlap has been something that has interested me in for a long time, as is probably obvious to readers of The Bestiary.)
Please do have a look at the story and let me know what you think. I’m very happy its got such a good home – Lablit.com is dedicated to the perceptions and portrayal of laboratory culture in fiction and throughout the media. It’s a great site, full of essays, profiles, interviews, reviews and, of course, short stories. Check it out!
Calling all writers!
Where do you get your inspiration from? I recently published a short story called Papercuts and Curses on Medium. For that story I used an image from the Harriet Bennett photo album (though many people have since told me that the man in the picture looks just like me). The owner of these evocative Victorian […]