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March 20, 2017
Read ‘The Hack’ in The Singularity Magazine
You wait ages for a bus and two come along at once. Here’s the second story of mine to be published this month.
It’s called The Hack and appears on London-based Sci-fi magazine The Singularity’s website.
You can have a read here. (Excerpt below.)
The Hack
Rep-7 stared at the photograph. He recorded the details: fuzzy brown and black fur, short snout, ears and eyes large in comparison to the overall size and shape of the face. A puppy. He cross-referenced the picture and the network came back...
March 12, 2017
Read ‘The Red Elk’ on Scrutiny Journal
Here’s my first published story of 2017 – The Red Elk. It links with previous stories Year of the Money Lender and Naoko. More to come!
Published by the good people at Scrutiny Journal who specialise in magical realism.
You can read my short story and lots of others here.
The Red Elk
It had never occurred to him that the red elk wasn’t real. For a year now, Sato had followed its trail through the thick forest around the mountain that people called the Sea of Trees and Sato called his playgrou...
December 5, 2016
Read The Sixpence in the Pudding in O Horrid Night
Saaaantaaaa! I know him!
Time to get excited about Christmas! And, in the old fashioned tradition, time to scare each other with Christmas ghost stories around the fire.
My short story The Sixpence in the Pudding (excerpt below) features in the new Christmas horror anthology, O Horrid Night, by Fundead Publications. It sits alongside 19 other spooky tales perfect for the season.
You can buy O Horrid Night in paperback or on Kindle here.
The Sixpence in the Pudding
Of course there were stories...
November 22, 2016
Dead in Autumn, Buried in Winter OUT NOW
Excited to say my debut novel, Dead in Autumn, Buried in Winter is out now in paperback and on Kindle!
You can buy it on Amazon or Createspace.
Old Blue Eyes, Madonna, Chewbacca and Frankenstein’s Monster go trick-or-treating in the upmarket part of town. They find a lavish three-storey house lying empty, the keys left in the lock. They should post them through the letterbox, they should hand them in to a neighbour, they should leave them under the doormat. But they don’t.
It is Hallowe’en af...
October 31, 2016
Dead in Autumn, Buried in Winter Hallowe’en excerpt
Happy Hallowe’en everyone!
On this day last year I started writing my first novel. The first draft took six weeks, the rest of the year was spent editing, rewriting and proofing.
Now it’s finished and just about ready for release, but seen asthe storyopenson Hallowe’en, I thought I’d give everyone a sneak peak as their Hallowe’en treat (so you’ve no reason to egg my house you punks).Hope you enjoy.
Oh, and it’s called Dead in Autumn, Buried in Winter.
Dead in Autumn – Hallowe’en teaser
Madonn...
October 30, 2016
Beaten to a Pulp! Hallowe’en giveaway
Hallowe’en is upon us, and to celebrate I’m offering you all a treat.
The Kindle edition of Beaten to a Pulp! is free for the day.
There’ll also be another special announcement so stay tuned!
Get Beaten to a Pulp! free here.
October 27, 2016
Read ‘Unofficial Tapes #1’ on FTP Magazine
You can check out my latest piece of flash fiction, Unofficial Tapes #1, over on the excellent FTP Magazinewebsite.
It’s y attempt at being both political/funny, who knows if either works, but if you wanna find out you can read it here:
http://www.ftpmagazine.com/2016/10/26/unofficial-tapes-1-callum-mcsorley/
FTPis a new Glasgow-based arts magazine. The initials stand for Fuck The Patriarchy, which tells you more or less everything you need to know about it.
(Photo: FTP)
October 7, 2016
FunDead Christmas horror
Really excited to have a short story accepted for FunDead Publication’s Christmas horror anthology.
Yet to be named, it’ll be coming out later in the year – a perfect Christmas stocking present, maybe? – full of scary tales in the vein of Charles Dickens and Algernon Blackwood.
My own story, The Sixpence in the Pudding, is a Gothic horror – Victorian mansions, creaky door hinges, humbugs, you name it. More info, and the chance of a sneak peek, soon.
FunDead – based in Salem, Massachusetts, fa...
September 22, 2016
Read ‘Naoko’ on Aether & Ichor
Happy tosay another of my stories has been picked up!
‘Naoko’ is a prequel to the story ‘Year of the Money Lender’ that appears in my debut collection, Beaten to a Pulp!and details Sato’s life following the great fire (YML was first published by Freedom Fiction back in Feb.)
‘Naoko’ was published by the excellent fantasy website (and fellow WordPressers) Aether & Ichor.
You can read it here.
(Photo: Freedom Fiction)
Naoko
She said her name was Mitsuko, but it was definitely Naoko. An older Na...
September 18, 2016
Beaten to a Pulp! now available in print
Really excited to announce my debut collection of short stories Beaten to a Pulp! is now available in paperback.
You can order a copy from Amazon or CreateSpace for 4.50.
Beaten to a Pulp!
A manuscript discovered on a broken hard drive reveals a tale of secret societies, drugs and murder in Victorian Glasgow.
In ancient Japan a scarred servant plots to take down a dragon slumlord while in modern Tokyo gangster Hiroshi is stalked by a seemingly invincible samurai.
Smugglers from a...
