Writer for page and screen, guru of short stories, editor of Fiction on the Web. Rumoured to have killed wife with Scrabble and married self. He/him.
London
Joined June 2011
- Tweets4.1K
- Following1.6K
- Followers1.5K
- Likes936
Pinned Tweet
Who here is migrating to Bluesky? I've started posting over there instead. Come follow me: buff.ly/3UW45HP
Saw Forgotten Island. Two Filipinas discover the power of friendship when they are transported to a fantastic island populated by creatures from Philippine folklore. Same kind of hyperactive ultra-colourful animation style as Bad Guys or K-Pop Demon Hunters. Imaginative and fun.
Saw NAZA at the cinema. Documentary interviewing Israeli ex-intelligence officers about the systems and ethos behind the genocidal killings in Gaza. Highlights the monstrous hypocrisy of the Netenhayu regime, and draws strong parallels to the Nuremberg defense. Cold and brutal.
I was interviewed for the "Let's Have a Renaissance" podcast. It's on Apple, YouTube, Spotify, etc. I talk about starting Fiction on the Web in the 90s, the meaning of freedom, losing a bet to my wife and getting a tattoo, and lots more. music.youtube.com/watch?v=-T…
Bishop Bob by Mary Jo Rabe. Reader comments: "I enjoyed Bishop Bob's unconventional piety and his detailed backstory. That final sentence was surprising yet perfectly in character." "A lovely human story, so smoothly told." "Loved it!!" fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/0…
Reader comments on Patrick Carella's short story, published on Monday: "Some of the passages here reminded me of vintage Damon Runyon or Nat Fleischer, vintage sports writing from the Golden Age." "Vivid and amusing. I loved the ending." fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/1…
Joseph Hirsch's irreverent ghost story got a good reaction from readers: "I really enjoyed this! Very absorbing, it hums along from start to finish. Very cool!" fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/1…
Reader reactions to D. C. Martin's short story: "Wow, a writer totally lost in a rich fantasy life. He experiences almost a waking dream; or is it a nightmare. ... Very well done!" "A very interesting story. Well done, D.C." fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/1…
Watched In The Mood for Love. My first Wong Kar-Wai, and I want to see more. Kind of a Chinese Brief Encounter. Very distinctive cinematography. The music choices, and Mrs. Chan's dresses, both stood out too. Enjoyed this, but perhaps admired it more than I enjoyed it.
Rewatched Disney's Pinocchio. Child-trafficking body horror movie, you know, for kids. The animation is very creative. Story's a little all over the place, but at least it has a happier ending than the original book (in which Pinocchio gets hanged).
Saw both parts of De Gaulle at the cinema. The story of his stewardship of Free France during WWII. Fascinating. The line was so thin between him being remembered as an absurd madman and a patriotic hero. He overcomes setbacks with diplomacy, luck, and unwavering conviction.
The link between the official Fiction on the Web t-shirts being worn in this picture, and the silly behaviour, is correlation not causation. I promise. redbubble.com/i/t-shirt/Fict…
D. C. Martin's short story at Fiction on the Web was selected as "Story of the Week" in the Topiary Stories Sunday Fiction Review: topiary.code.blog/2026/10/10…
Huge reader reaction to T. E. Poremba's short story: "The premise of this story and its development are fascinating, as is the ending." "This was a horror story to me. The whole world turned into facsimiles and lies." "Love the black humor in this piece!" fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/1…
Topiary Stories picked The Kidnappers by Cris Aboobaker as as story of the week. FotW reader liked it too: "I love this story! I love the mix of normal and I guess paranormal." "Evokes the childhood imagination." "This one is both eerie and enchanting." fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/1…
In Bud Pharo's short story, a synthetic woman joins a lunar mining crew. "This one reminded me of Harry Harrison's work. It's science fiction (with some good hard science) but with a sense of humor and some heart, as well." fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/0…
Charlie Fish and Fiction on the Web retweeted
Very grateful for @FishCharlie publishing my short story “The Coroner” and for the kind reader comments, particularly the one that invokes Thomas McGuane and Cormac McCarthy.
Readers praised Hank Grezlak's short story The Coroner: "A grim, disturbing story that compels the reader's attention." "This skillfully written story—terse in spots, poetic in others—reminds me of Thomas McGuane's revisionist Westerns." fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/0…
Readers praised Hank Grezlak's short story The Coroner: "A grim, disturbing story that compels the reader's attention." "This skillfully written story—terse in spots, poetic in others—reminds me of Thomas McGuane's revisionist Westerns." fictionontheweb.co.uk/2026/0…
My buddy Jarick Weldon's magazine Corollary SF has just published its first issue! There's also a new story from me in the Editor's Library called The Billionaires Will Eat Themselves. I've read three of the other stories so far and they are *chef's kiss* corollarysf.com/
Saw The Lost Children of Tuam at the cinema. Moving docudrama about an amateur historian whose dogged research uncovered that 800 "illegitimate" children died during 35 years of systematic abuse in a religious children's home, and had been buried in a septic tank mass grave.
