The Yeomen of the Guard is a concept that’s been with me for a long, long time. I’ve written stories about them for my personal enjoyment over the years after Marvel comics switched me onto Conan and I got into fantasy stories. The Yeomen are the central character of my own pre-cataclysmic, middle-ish, fantasy realm, [...]
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The Fifteenth Shot – A short fiction for The Escapist
The Fifteenth Shot is a short fiction based around the Space Invaders concept that I’m also currently redeveloping into a feature film script. That said, I also have a pretty strong concept about how it might make a modern game update on the Space Invaders theme, but that’s something for the future. This one’s still [...]
The Fifteenth Shot – A Short Story
THE FIFTEENTH SHOT A short fiction by Spanner for The Escapist Kaori’s elbow brushed alongside Eric’s, expertly demonstrating platonic support. Such incredible intuition. Moving like a spectre, she’d marshalled the most imperceptible techniques to make her presence felt without interrupting or startling people. Eric didn’t look away from the white sky when she spoke. “It [...]
The Ordeal of Mark: A Development Diary
The Ordeal of Mark never fails to get a reaction from its readers. Maybe it’s because of the sheer absurdity, the religious lampooning, the dry humour, the shame of it – I don’t know, but people seem to like it and loathe it (either’s fine for me – so long as it solicits a reaction). [...]
Interzone: Three Lepers Leg It
This is a daft short story I wrote in two hours – right before the deadline after the editor got in touch to say they had an emergency gap in the schedule. It could read better to be honest, but for such a rush job, I was pretty impressed with myself. Three Lepers Leg It [...]
The Escapist: Back ‘O The Arcade
I loved the arcades (they’re gone now – replaced by souless grabbing machines and regiments of racing games) and decided to tell The Escapist all about the seedy, back alley shit hole coin-op dens of English town centres. It’s followed by a couple of lesser known arcade game reviews of some personal faves. NOTE: I [...]
The Escapist: A Game Without Winners
A discussion of the computer game adaptation of Harlan Ellison’s short story, I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream for The Escapist online magazine. Click here to open a page directly to the article at The Escapist website.
The Ordeal of Mark: Original Short Story
The Ordeal of Mark By Spanner Alice didn’t like water at the best of times. Combined with the knot of tangled nerves in her stomach, the gently rocking boat brought the tension high into the back of her throat, and it took all her strength – and faith – not to pull the habit from [...]
One Dark Night In Kirkburton – An Excerpt
An Excerpt from: One Dark Night In Kirkburton A novella by Spanner. 9:28PM “Bollocks.” Jenks’ looked up from the ‘closed’ sign hanging behind the locked glass door of the off-license and tried to focus on his distant, morose reflection standing inside the darkened shop. Julie leaned in and pointed at the opening times. “Who the [...]