I received an email today from Robert Moriyama, the short fiction editor at Aphelion magazine. He sent me a very complimentary acceptance letter for a story I submitted earlier in the year. It will be featured in the next issue of Aphelion, which should go live this Sunday. Obviously I’m over the moon about this. Aphelion have also recently accepted a poem of mine, which should run in the same issue.

Robert said it was a good entry in the John Wyndham genre, of a disaster seen through the eyes of an ordinary person. I’m a big fan of Wyndham so this doesn’t come as a surprise, although being told it is good was a nice lift, after a string of rejections.

With the final month of university being a mad scrabble, and the new job taking up a lot of my time, writing has taken something of a backseat over the last couple of months. However I’ve got a couple of other stories ready for submission and some more poetry, and this has given me a much needed boost to carry on and get things done.

I’ll put a short update post on the site, and through my Twitter account, when the story and poem are up.

I hope you enjoy them!

Later.

I’ve just posted a piece of flash fiction on the fiction page. Hope you enjoy it.

I’ve also written a review of Gareth L. Powell’s short story collection The Last Reef and added a link to his site on the web links page.

Enjoy!