Short Stories


11 July 2021: First place in the Frome Festival Short Story Competition with Your Call.

The Bluebell Wood
Best British Short Stories 2016 – edited by Nicholas Royle
Salt Publishing, Cromer, 2016. 263 pp. ISBN 978-1-78463-063-8 (pb) 978-1-78463-064-5 (ebook)
Also translated into Arabic in issue 42 of Fikr Magazine

The Bluebell Wood
Anglo Files No. 177, September 2015
Also translated into Arabic in issue 42 of Fikr Magazine

The Good Butler
Speak My Language, and Other Stories – edited by Torsten Højer
Robinson, London, 2015, 572pp. ISBN 978-1-47211-997-1 (pb) 978-1-47211-998-8 (ebook)
The most sharply-observed character in the collection, with a satisfying ending that gives a good kicking to the well-worn queer-lit trope of the past-it gay man powerless in the face of youth – Matthew Bright, January 2016
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Raw Material
The New Writer, May/June 2010

History Lesson
Yes, I Am! Writing by South African Gay Men – compiled by Robin Malan & Ashraf Johaardien
Junkets Publisher, Cape Town, 2010, 176pp. ISBN 978-0-620-45828-3

Lucky for Some
The Sunday Express, 17/01/2010

10.30 from Metlaoui
Vrij Nederland Magazine, June 2007

Fairy Tale – an essay
The Way We Are Now: Gay and Lesbian Lives in
the 21st Century – edited by Ben Summerskill
Continuum, London, 2006, 214 pp. ISBN 0-8264-8785-8
As serialised in The Guardian, 22/04/06 – Why Grandad Lives with Peter
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A Portrait
New Writing 13 – edited by Toby Litt & Ali Smith
Picador, London, 2005, 355pp. ISBN 0-330-48599-7
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By the Pool
The Gay Times Book of Short Stories: New Century New Writing – edited by P-P Hartnett
Gay Times Books, Millivres Ltd., London, 2000, 305pp. ISBN 1-902852-19-2
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A Son’s Story
The Mammoth Book of Gay Short Stories – edited by Peter Burton
Robinson Publishing, London, 1997, 486pp. ISBN 1-85487-518-3
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Crossing the Line
Winter’s Tales 10 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1994, 223pp. ISBN 0-09-473830-0
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A Son’s Story
New Contrast – Volume 22, Number 2, June 1994

The Good Butler
Seduction – edited by Tony Peake
Serpent’s Tail, London, 1994, 224pp. ISBN 1-85242-314-5
Tony Peake’s tale expertly teases the reader as it oscillates between prurient sex scenes and the crisp moral cleverness of its butler hero – Tom Morris, The Guardian, 15/02/1994
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A Son’s Story
Winter’s Tales 9 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1993, 217pp. ISBN 0-09-472810-0
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Necessary Appendages
The Penguin Book of Contemporary South African
Short Stories – edited by Steven Gray
Penguin, London, 1993, 305pp. ISBN 0-14023-726-7
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Girl Dancing
Winter’s Tales 8 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1992, 190pp. ISBN 0-09-471600-5
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Necessary Appendages
Winter’s Tales 7 – edited by Robin Baird-Smith
Constable, London, 1991, 304pp. ISBN 0-09-470810-X
A raunchy story of sexual ambivalence – Publishing News, 16/08/1991
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