short story

Pick a story medium, any medium…

I’ve an idea in my head for a story that’s been rattling around for a while and which is resolutely refusing to coalesce into something tangible. Having now dabbled with long and short form prose, radio and movie scriptwriting and comic writing and illustration, I find myself tempted by them Read more

By Simon Jones, ago

Johnny’s New Job, by Chris Beckett

Having just had a week off work I’ve been catching up on the last few issues of Interzone. #227, the March-April issue, contained a story called ‘Johnny’s New Job’, written by Chris Beckett. It’s a scathing, damning criticism of the media, government and mob mentality that always forms in the Read more

By Simon Jones, ago