Zits'n'Bits

An offbeat collection of poetry for children of all ages! Meet Mojo Jojo, Arnold Rimble and the spider on your ceiling! And watch out for the zits and farts along the way!

Red

What is your favourite colour? Hopefully not red...

Lamenting a Horror Icon

Wattpad and DC Vertigo commissioned me to share my favourite 80s horror icon with you to celebrate Vertigo releasing a brand new title, SURVIVORS’ CLUB. I’m so excited to read it and you can check out early sketches and other official content at @VertigoComics, right here on Wattpad!

Final Entry

Of all the days to have a problem, today was the worst. Of all the problems to have on all of the days, this was the worst. 3000 years, they'd travelled the stars. 3,000 years of searching and archiving, cataloguing every single planet in the entire Universe. Their journey was now over. The day was here when they coul...

The Four Wotsits of the Doodad

Death, War, Pestilence and Famine - the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse - have been hanging around for so long waiting to being about the end of the world, they've forgotten who they really are. War is a Top Gear groupie, Fam (the Man) cheats at Monopoly against his sidekick Pestilencio and Death sighs a lot - somethi...

Tooth, the Whole Tooth and Nothing but the Tooth

One day, for my birthday, I was given a fossilised Mastodon tooth. Genuinely. Something of a strange gift, you might think. But cool, nonetheless. This is the story about the owner of the tooth coming to retrieve it. Meet Beryl. She's nice, in a huge Mastodon kind of way. And she likes cups of tea. Wish I'd...

Suffer the Little Children

Simon Fuller and his daughters Fey and Rebecca are a perfect family, doing their best to recover from the death of Simon's wife. One day, Rebecca introduces Simon to her imaginary friend, Nathaniel. She tells her father he can keep Nathaniel 'forever'. Then the phone appears. Then the lies begin. And the pain. Sim...

Darker Places

*Featured in the Creepy Camping Tales reading list for the Blair Witch movie!* What if you could steal the final moments from the dying? What if you had the darkest secret, but couldn't think what it might be? What if you entered the forest in the deep of the night. Who is the melting man? And are your neighbours re...

Dark Places

I am Death. I know who you are... There is darkness and madness in each of us. We must do battle with our own demons. But... What if those demons opened the door in the back of your mind and stepped out. What if they became real? If the night, the shadows, the reflections and Death himself walked among us? And what if...

Whispers (Brahms/The Boy)

"Some people could sell their soul for a baby's laugh." When Yvonne is employed to be a nanny for the Denholm's son, Albert, she finds him to be her strangest charge yet. Albert is a porcelain doll. One night she hears a baby's laugh in a house which should be empty. How can she not investigate? But there are rules...

Rose

Three children, a cabin in the woods, a witch and a big bad wolf... Have you heard stories like this before? No, you haven't... When Sarah and her brothers, Adam and Tom, go to play in the woods around their home, they encounter things that only exist in nightmares. And what was the spell they read from the old book...

Walking Tenderly with a Demon

Incarnate is a new movie from the creators of The Purge: Anarchy and Sinister II and stars The Dark Knight's Aaron Eckhart and Gotham's David Mazouz. It opens on December 2nd 2016 and I am delighted to have been commissioned to write a story, Tender Walks the Demon, to accompany the movie. Read more about the movie...

Mr. Composure

"Once upon a time..." All the best stories begin that way. Once upon a time, Jack climbed a beanstalk. Cinderella did go to the ball. Once upon a time, his parents died. When your parents are killed in front of you, on the one day of the year when all crime is legal, what do you do? You prepare for...

Demons are People Too

When a demon is tasked with finding the key to unlock the Gates of Hell and bring about the Apocalypse, no-one would have guessed what a HELL of job it would be! For a start, he doesn't have a cool demonic name like his friends. And things keep going wrong, like the police, the hospital and the priest. All he wants...

Voice on the Wing

I'd always heard the voices. From being a young child when the doctors had long since given up trying to find a cause, the voices woke me, screaming, in the night. But then, they began to guide me. When I started to find the dead bodies - animals, children - I was called a psychic. I was used to help, but I cou...

Home

Home is where the heart is. That's what they say. But when you revisit your old school, memories you thought long buried can be a killer. Your friends. Your teachers. The melting man...

Interviews with a Madman

It's lonely in the asylum, so imagine my delight when the mighty folks from Wattpad dropped by! It gave me the chance to chat to all sorts of strange oddities... I mean writers. Step through the doors of my mind and take a seat. Don't worry about the straps. Drop me a line if you fancy joining me for a wee talk und...

Rudolph Saves Christmas

Rudolph, that very famous red-nosed reindeer, has been accused of blowing up Santa's sleigh! Join him as he, with the help of a very special squirrel called Flop, try to escape from prison and find the real culprit! Then meet a spider on your present and a mouse who took a stroll through a deep dark wood, in a wacky c...

The Door

The door wasn't there that morning. But now it was. And Steven couldn't help but step through. So why is he at the hotel, and why does that man look and sound so much like him? And why does the touch of another suddenly make him want to vomit? - This story originally appeared in the fantastic Sun Kissed Fan...

Daughter

- WINNER in the @BeautyAndTheBeastUK Writing Challenge Contest!!! - Beauty is not purely skin deep. Children don't necessarily understand this, however. My daughter was suffering from bullying at her new school. I wrote this to show beauty isn't just on the outside. You only need to look. As such, I think it's a fitti...

Jack

Do you know Jack? The Ripper? Saucy Jack? Leather Apron? The most infamous serial killer in history has long been fodder for the imagination of authors and artists alike, but his true identity remains an enigma to this day. Take a fresh look at the notorious Murderer of Whitechapel through the eyes and quills of Wattp...

Wings

A stream of failed relationships lays in the wake of Megan's chaotic path. When she secludes herself in her friend's remote cabin, needing to escape yet another heart she's destroyed because of her own dark issues, she just wants to drink wine and stare at a dirty wall, letting the rest of the world drift by. But, whe...

Bits

Contest entries and stuff. Here are my entries for various writing challenges, contests and prompts. There's poetry, flashfiction and more!

Puddlebrain

What good is a witch without her magic? Puddlebrain, Gemini and Edna are witches. Unfortunately, after an incident with the mayor and a family of silverfish, they've all lost their magic. When a sinister shadow begins to abduct the villagers and then her sisters, Puddlebrain, with only the obnoxious gnome Billy for h...

And the Meek Shall Walk

Princess Aren is determined to make the human who killed her mother and exiled her people to the bottom of the ocean pay. To do so, she must go to extremes of pain and heartache in her search for justice. Aren, however, is no sweet, happy mermaid. To kill is to ignite a fire of passion in her heart which only the...

Red Queen

It's the mirrors. Or the shadows that dwell within them... Alice hates reflections. Never being able to adjust to being a twin, she escapes into an insane world of darkness, mad hatters and invisible cats. And she becomes the ruler of it all! What a wonder...! - *Wattpad Fairytale Community's Retelling Awards FC...

Dorthy

Zombies and werewolves and witches, oh my! Dorothy is a normal teenage girl. She goes to school, hangs out and resists the advances of the boys in her year. And she lives with her aunt after the death of her parents. A trip to a mall is brought to an abrupt halt when a freak storm hits. Dorothy is transported to anot...

Mortal Sin - Sin Book II

The toss of a coin can change your life. Vehicles can crash into buildings. Cities can crumble. A man can die. And be reborn. When your memory is lost and Death is your shadow, you turn to the only person who has offered their hand - a strange, evasive woman with pale skin and sad eyes. But who is she...

31 Creepy Words and other Short Horror Stories

31 words isn't much to tell a tale, but even those few are able to chill your blood. Herein lie super short yet super scary stories, including serials The Night and House, each of only the magical 31 words. Do you know what 31 is? 13 backwards... - #19 in Horror! #1 Stories #1 in Horrorfiction #1 in Chills #1 in Micr...

Sin (Wattys Winner)

On the flip of a coin, people die around Sin. Escaped from a lunatic asylum and haunted by his dead sister, he must find out why, and discover who is trying to use his power to destroy everything and everyone. ***** Dead, dead, dead. Say it enough times and it becomes just another word. What would you do? Could you k...