John Upjohn finds a trail of footprints in the snow, leading away from the door of his house. But John Upjohn is the only person in his house. So, he decides to follow the footprints.
When Chloe breaks up with Daphne (not her real name) and moves out, Daphne starts to believe Chloe's slyly creeping back into her flat and leaving her coded messages. But what if it's not Chloe after all...?
King7 has absolute control over the weather. The Land he rules is a Meteorocracy. So, when he decides to bring about only the second Autumn of his adult life, he is confident he knows what will happen. But soon enough things start to go irreversibly wrong.
A girl meets a gorgeous boy and he changes her life completely.
Misunderstood and overmedicated, twelve-year-old Lilith Bloom finds the prospect of a grand family reunion decidedly dull... That is, until she discovers that the rose garden surrounding her grandfather's Berlin mansion is, well, completely and utterly carnivorous. Armed with Panther, her talking pet whippet, and the...
At the end of the 19th century, in a very remote village, a strange custom is observed by the children - on certain special days, they are allowed advance toward a banqueting table, and gorge themselves on delicious food, only they must never let go of the silken string they have been given to hold.
A young woman is waiting in an underground station. A young man sits down next to her, and proceeds to tell her everything about her life - the tragic, the heartwarming, the amazing, the catastrophic. What on earth is he? Angel, ghost, or something else?
Ariel Fontansia is ten pounds away from total relapse. Since the previous summer, she has been stuck in a vicious cycle of calories, pounds, and inches. Redemption, Maine, isn't another escape -- it's a dead end. With no one to keep her disorder in check and hallucinations of a dead cousin driving her insane, she fall...
In the British Library in London, a young woman begins to send a young man flirtatious messages - by ordering books in his name. It's delightful, harmless fun, she thinks... until someone starts sending flirtatious book-messages to her.
A young man living opposite a laundrette (or laundromat) sees a beautiful young woman undressing and getting inside one of the washing machines...
Leonard wants to bequeath his tattooed skin to the National Gallery of Australia. He has been almost completely inked by one of Australia's best contemporary artists, but he is a canvas that nobody wants. Strange things start happening to Leonard, Darwin's moth, a tattoo from his calf, flutters around him one night, h...
While on his computer, Victor Hastings admires the provocative pictures of girls he's dating. Meanwhile, these girls are posting more and more on Facebook and all the social sites. Now, all the young men in his cramped fraternity are competing for the attention of these online, amateur pinups. And the institution of t...
An old man's life hangs in the balance, will the apathy of family be his downfall, or the empathy of strangers his salvation? Written at the age of 13
A wife goes mad on the night of her marriage and her husband is left alone in an empty house. Filled with despair and longing, he sets out on a dream-filled voyage to find her. This text was written while listening to the first three minutes of Beethoven's Symphony No.7 in A major op.92 - II, Allegretto. In each secti...
A mermaid, the transformation of a boring accountant, an atomic submarine and a lot of jokes. Now available as a paperback, with mermaid illustrations. See the last section for a special offer! www.miltonmarmalade.uk The first several updated chapters will remain here on Wattpad for your delectation.
This is a collection of assorted poems, detailing one consciousness extending and swirling into another, and another, and another.
Secret numbers and hidden codes feature in this story about how cultural differences can affect even things that are supposed to be universally true. Originally published in Fantasy Magazine and reprinted in Looking Glass and Cosmos.
After his brother died, Hitoshi Watanabe quit his job and decided to walk to the hot spring waterfall at the end of the world. Originally published in Strange Horizons
This is a short story I wrote during the course of a single plane ride from Dallas, Texas, to my home in Lancaster, PA. In it I recount the city I used to live in, Dallas, through vivid mental detail. I went back to sell my novels (The Modern Reformer and Black Genesis: Desert Man) at Dallas Comic Con and found mysel...
