The Pen Wrangler

It's that time of year when pumpkin spice latte is all the rage and people who hate Christmas are getting overly excited about Halloween...

Another story went in at the weekend. It felt good to be back on the wagon after a messy summer. I did submit stories over the holidays. I j...

An embarrassingly quick exit from my last competition. A shame really, because I quite liked the story. It seems that the ones I really like...

Have you ever started a story and realised that you were rewriting something else? I'm sure you've heard that euphemism that there a...

Sad to say, I'm out of the 250 Word Microfiction Challenge. I was disappointed, because I was very proud of Litany (see below). I honest...

I couldn't really hold off anymore, so the story is submitted. I hope it does ok, but I won't hold my breath. In truth, I'm not ...

A bad pun of a title, but it leads directly into what I want to talk about. Normally when I start writing a story I get a title and an outli...