The Centre Cannot Hold

Here’s a much belated addition to that first chapter I put up here some weeks back - I’ll try to keep them coming a little more frequently.
Chapter Two
The business of giving a statement was always a lengthy one in Rag’s experience, especially when the cops had nothing to go on.
When they had you, they [...]

Okay, here’s chapter one of yet another new story - as always, let me know what you think:

A fragment, part of a larger work (which is, in itself, part of a larger series of works). Hope you like it.

Sorry to keep you waiting so long between installments folks - I had to take some time out to write the damn funkspek (at least in point form) so that I could keep my references to it consistent.
Here’s a good-seized chunk of Ducal Line action, and I have another one lined up when I get [...]

I have no idea precisely where this is going - this is just playing with some ideas for a vampire story that would invert Dracula, by featuring a Western European vampire moving to Romania and buying real estate there a century after the events of Stoker’s novel. Not at all sure that it can [...]

I’ve always wanted to write an epistolary novel - they seem like such a fun form to play in. But I’ve never really had an idea that suited the form, and didn’t really want to force it.
On Tuesday, I had such an idea. A science fiction novel about a commercial genetic engineering project, [...]

Not a new story this week, I’m sorry to say. I’ve been working on one, but I couldn’t get it finished in time. So this is an inventory piece, awaiting another draft - I like it, but I haven’t got it quite right. There’s something off in the rhythm.
Anyway, this one originally [...]

This is a story I wrote some time ago, when I had just discovered Arsène Lupin for the first time. It contains a number of cameos by various characters, some original to me, most not. It is, I hope, an amusing confection, like any good gentleman thief story should be