Gareth Preston's Blog, page 22
November 14, 2014
Arsenic and Old Lace
I’m shamelessly plugging my upcoming appearance in “Arsenic and Old Lace”, the classic American black comedy by Joseph Kesselring. I’m playing Dr Herman Einstein, the plastic surgeon and cringing henchman of the fiendish Jonathan Brewster. Armed with a comic German accent, I’ve been part of a hard working cast of actors and technicians at Bolton Little Theater and the rehearsals have been busy but rewarding.
The play is on for seven nights between 6th to 13th of December, tickets are £10 and i...
October 16, 2014
Our First
I wrote this as entry to a recent flash fiction competition run by Creative Industries Trafford. It’s an attempt to get out of my comfort zone and write something in a completely new area for me – writing explicitly about sex. Hope you like it.
Our First
We lie together, side by side now, and I am enjoying our achievement. I slowly pass my hand from her shoulder which still bears the faint imprint of the bra strap, down her side, over the slight curve of her hip, communicating my tenderness. He...
October 8, 2014
My pitch? Orcs podcasting on Youtube.
A few years ago I wrote a pitch for a Warhammer 40000 anthology called “Fear the Alien”. In case you don’t know, Warhammer 40000 is a huge SF franchise that has grown around a tabletop wargame set in a distant future. A universe where humans, elves, orcs and other races were fighting a never ending war with super technology rather than magic, although this scenario was equally fantastical. I must admit I was not a player or collector of the series, nor had a read any of the earlier books. How...
October 2, 2014
On a Cold Martian Night – My first published magazine short fiction
I’m excited to announced that first commercially published short fiction is now out on the newsstand, inside issue 405 of Starburst – the world’s longest running magazine of cult media.
“On a Cold Martian Night” is a sharp little story of the dangers of future colonisation, especially the danger humans bring along with them. Thanks to Rylan Cavell for his moody artwork.
One of the magazine’s requirements is that submitted stories be no more than 2000 words, and it was quite a challenge to hone...
August 3, 2014
Brand new Mercy Thompson comicbook
My good friend and fellow writer Rik Hoskin (creator of the Agents of Psyence, whoseaudio series I produced) has just told me about his latest project. He’s scripting the Mercy Thompson horror comic for Dynamite Publishing, working alongside author/creator Patricia Briggs. Mercy Thompson is the heroine of a series of popular urban fantasy novels. A young Native American woman who can shapeshift into a coyote, and who’s life inevitably brings her into touch with mysteries and dangers withinWas...
July 29, 2014
About Face
I originally wrote this short piece for my page on the neo:artists website. Originally I had intended it to be the center of a piece of art, full of imaginary sketches from God’s heavenly scribble pad. As I’m no longer a member it has been taken down but I quite like this one, so I thought I would give it another airing on this blog. I hope you enjoy it too.
From: God
To: Uriel
Date: Sixth Day
Subject: Re: About the Face
Greetings. Thank you for your update, lots of big ideas there, really...
July 27, 2014
Taken my first step
Hello. This is my first post to my first WordPress page. I’ve heard a lot about this site and its been recommend to me by friends. Essentially it is going to be here partly as an online creative CV for my work and partly as a place for new writing and oddments that perhaps wouldn’t fit in my usual online haunts. This page may well alter a bit as I work out how to customise it in the early days.
A little bit about me, for any readers who might find this page out of curiosity, I am a writer and...
