Sharps in The Dark Sire Issue 3 Spring 2020

A young woman turns to an arcane form of acupuncture for help with a personal issue.
An old-fashioned light-hearted twist-in-the -tale story.

Subscribe at https://darksire.weebly.com/subscribe.html or read for free on page 29 at https://joom.ag/hcaC

Poem – Farewell

A new piece published as a featured post in Spillwords.

Read it here for free – https://spillwords.com/farewell-by-ian-richardson/

You can even vote to like it if you as so inclined!

Kensington (Pushcart Prize nominated)

Kensington in Between These Shores Literary and Arts Annual Issue 2 (Pushcart Prize nominated)

 

In the depths of Kensington Parks a couple escape the outside world to enmesh themselves in a special intimacy.

ISSN 2398 – 4783

Purchase at
BTS Annual Shop

£10 per issue

 

 

Resurgam on Spillwords

A short poem. Free to read at http://spillwords.com/resurgam/

Published: Spillwords Sept 2018

There’s always snow on Kilimanjaro

‘There always snow on Kilimanjaro’ in The Tomorrow Issue (July 2018).  Vol 7 Issue 1 of Here Comes Everyone literary magazine.

 

Two ecologists consider the end of the world, and Hemingway, at the foot of Kilimanjaro.

“Poignant, believable and well executed.”

ISSN 2398 – 4783

Purchase at
HERE COMES EVERYONE Shop

£5 per issue

 

Dikē in the new Sins of the Gods Anthology

 

Sins of the Gods: Twisted Tales of Mythology: Volume 3 (Sins of Time) Paperback – 31 Oct 2017

When the paths of gods and men cross, then the skeins of fate twist. And none more twisted than the sixteen stories of mayhem, horror and the plain weird in these pages.

Available at

AMAZON US

AMAZON UK

AMAZON CANADA

Jean’s Bean

Smith & Kraus (July 28, 2017)

ISBN-10: 1575259117
ISBN-13: 978-1575259116

First performed as part of the Brockley Max festival, Jean’s Bean, a two minute play, has now been published by Smith & Kraus in their latest Actors’ resource book.

Buy it on AMAZON US

The Floating Mountain

Litro, November 2016

A rare outing into life writing for me as I recall a prominent feature of my childhood in Paisley, Scotland.
Available free online here at Litro literary magazine.

Death wears Tacky Back

2016

The Two-Fisted Librarians ‘zine is now available free on ISUU, featuring the incredibly silly ‘Death Wears Tacky Back’

Of course if you prefer a print copy, then it is available in part of a five issue bundle on ETSY

Troll in Bartelby Snopes (Pushcart Prize nominated)

Short story of the Month for August 2015

Print publication 11 January 2016

 When a boy’s imagination encounters the deep spirits of the land.

Charles  de Lint said, “Lots of mythic resonance and it didn’t go where I was expecting it to.”

Bartleby Snopes Issue 14 features stories and artwork from 35 authors and artists, including the 5 winners of the 7th Annual Dialogue Contest.

 Read free online at Bartley Snopes HERE

Or buy the print copy HERE 

Selected  by Bartleby Snopes as one of its few Pushcart Nominees for 2017!

https://www.bartlebysnopes.com/pushcart2016.htm