Doctor Who short stories
Doctor Who is really suited to the short story format. It works well in pretty much every format, really but I'm very fond of the short, quick hit you get with short stories. The odd thing is that you can often be more experimental with a short story than with a novel. At least I can.
I've written shorts for various spin offs as well as the Doctor. I love the way spin offs add to the Doctor Who universe.
DOCTOR WHO
written with Claire Bartlettin Doctor Who - Short Trips: Past Tense
How can changing the result of an Ashes test match at Headingley in 1981 bring about social unrest and the end of civilisation as we know it in Britain? Blame Tegan, it's her fault. It's up to Peri and Erimem - neither of whom know or care the first thing about cricket - to put history back on track. The Doctor would love to help but he's hiding out in the commentary box with the Test Match Special team.
Doctor Who - Short Trips: Past Tense was published by Big Finish.
How can changing the result of an Ashes test match at Headingley in 1981 bring about social unrest and the end of civilisation as we know it in Britain? Blame Tegan, it's her fault. It's up to Peri and Erimem - neither of whom know or care the first thing about cricket - to put history back on track. The Doctor would love to help but he's hiding out in the commentary box with the Test Match Special team.
Doctor Who - Short Trips: Past Tense was published by Big Finish.
written with Claire Bartlettin Doctor Who - Short Trips: Repercussions
The book is about the repercussions of the Doctor's actions. We thought it would be interesting to look at the repercussions of being the Doctor's friend. We couldn't do what we wanted to any of the known companions so we had to give him a stand-in here. The Doctor, Gallifrey, ancient cults, vampires... it's not destined to end well, is it?
Doctor Who - Short Trips: Repercussions was published by Big Finish.
The book is about the repercussions of the Doctor's actions. We thought it would be interesting to look at the repercussions of being the Doctor's friend. We couldn't do what we wanted to any of the known companions so we had to give him a stand-in here. The Doctor, Gallifrey, ancient cults, vampires... it's not destined to end well, is it?
Doctor Who - Short Trips: Repercussions was published by Big Finish.
written with Claire Bartlettin Doctor Who - Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas
We wanted to do the most Christmassy of Christmas stories. Masses of snow, people enduring stoically, and a new-born baby bringing hope to a world. Yes, it's sentimental, but it's Christmas and what is Christmas without a bit of sentiment?
Doctor Who - Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas was published by Big Finish.
We wanted to do the most Christmassy of Christmas stories. Masses of snow, people enduring stoically, and a new-born baby bringing hope to a world. Yes, it's sentimental, but it's Christmas and what is Christmas without a bit of sentiment?
Doctor Who - Short Trips: The Ghosts of Christmas was published by Big Finish.
in A Target for Tommy
A sort-of retelling of the Doctor Who tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors but featuring three different Doctors... three very unlikely other Doctors... and some other familiar faces too...
A sort-of retelling of the Doctor Who tenth anniversary story The Three Doctors but featuring three different Doctors... three very unlikely other Doctors... and some other familiar faces too...
written with Claire Bartlettin Unbound: Adventures in Time and Space
On Androzani Minor, the Doctor and his companion, Peri, are dying of Spectrox Toxaemia.
When the TARDIS arrives in 2008 England, Peri is fifteen years older and barely conscious... and the Doctor is missing.
Before she can find the Doctor, Peri has the small matter of an Ice Warrior invasion to deal with...
On Androzani Minor, the Doctor and his companion, Peri, are dying of Spectrox Toxaemia.
When the TARDIS arrives in 2008 England, Peri is fifteen years older and barely conscious... and the Doctor is missing.
Before she can find the Doctor, Peri has the small matter of an Ice Warrior invasion to deal with...
in Master Pieces
Erimem is about to celebrate the opening of an Egyptian exhibition but one of the pieces has caught the attention of more than one renegade Time Lord...
Details here.
Erimem is about to celebrate the opening of an Egyptian exhibition but one of the pieces has caught the attention of more than one renegade Time Lord...
Details here.
in Master Switches
Just why is the Master on Skaro while the Time Lords send the Fourth Doctor to alter the creation of the Daleks? What is the Master up to, and what does he make of this new Doctor?
Just why is the Master on Skaro while the Time Lords send the Fourth Doctor to alter the creation of the Daleks? What is the Master up to, and what does he make of this new Doctor?
in Build High for HappinessObverse Books, 2021
A little robot in Paradise Towers gets injured and does far more than just repair itself.
A little robot in Paradise Towers gets injured and does far more than just repair itself.
BRIGADIER LETHBRIDGE-STEWART
in The Xmas Files
Just to be absolutely clear, I didn't write any of the stories in The Xmas Files. I did, however, write a small portion of Home for Christmas. About a thousand words of it. I'm not telling you which thousand though you really should be able to work it out from the content alone. It was a nice thing to do, a lovely bit of fun. However, just to reiterate, the bulk of the book was written by the splendid Simon Forward. I'm only adding this here for completion's sake. You can pick up The Xmas Files free on the Candy Jar website. Buy yourself some books while you're there.
Just to be absolutely clear, I didn't write any of the stories in The Xmas Files. I did, however, write a small portion of Home for Christmas. About a thousand words of it. I'm not telling you which thousand though you really should be able to work it out from the content alone. It was a nice thing to do, a lovely bit of fun. However, just to reiterate, the bulk of the book was written by the splendid Simon Forward. I'm only adding this here for completion's sake. You can pick up The Xmas Files free on the Candy Jar website. Buy yourself some books while you're there.
free on the Candy Jar website, 2022
The Brigadier arrives at a dodgy seaside hotel with a lady friend, looking for some R&R... but duty does inconveniently get in the way... ...oh, and the hotel manager is a bit familiar.
The Brigadier arrives at a dodgy seaside hotel with a lady friend, looking for some R&R... but duty does inconveniently get in the way... ...oh, and the hotel manager is a bit familiar.
in Mind of Stone: Special Edition
I'm not sure if this is an epilogue, a final chapter, a short story or a coda - or maybe it's all of those. Anyway, it's an additional little piece which comes at the end of the story of the Brig's visit to jail.
I'm not sure if this is an epilogue, a final chapter, a short story or a coda - or maybe it's all of those. Anyway, it's an additional little piece which comes at the end of the story of the Brig's visit to jail.
in Operation Wildcat and other storiesCandy Jar Books 2022
My tale is one of the "other stories" - it's a Benton story, set early in his time with UNIT as he works out just what he's got himself involved with.
My tale is one of the "other stories" - it's a Benton story, set early in his time with UNIT as he works out just what he's got himself involved with.
ERIMEM
in Erimem - Into The Unknown
In Echoes, Erimem experiences futures, pasts and presents she can never know... why?
Interludes are small character moments which develop and expand the regulars in the Erimem series.
In Echoes, Erimem experiences futures, pasts and presents she can never know... why?
Interludes are small character moments which develop and expand the regulars in the Erimem series.
Thebes Publishing website
A very silly, very short story commemorating the launch of an ESA Mars probe and the release of a new Erimem novel Prime Imperative... and is a nod to a genuine music legend.
A very silly, very short story commemorating the launch of an ESA Mars probe and the release of a new Erimem novel Prime Imperative... and is a nod to a genuine music legend.
in Erimem: Prime Imperative
A character piece concerning Erimem's friends Ibrahim and Helena moving into their new home, and the repercussions that will have both for them and for Erimem's adventures.
A character piece concerning Erimem's friends Ibrahim and Helena moving into their new home, and the repercussions that will have both for them and for Erimem's adventures.
in Erimem: All I Want for Christmas
Christmas is many things. It's about fun and being with loved ones. It's about presents and laughter... but it's got a darker side, for those who are alone, those who don't have a family to be with. I always have an emotional moment at Christmas as I remember the people no longer with us to celebrate but then I can remember those who are still here and there's a balance between the good and the bad. That's what this story is about.
Christmas is many things. It's about fun and being with loved ones. It's about presents and laughter... but it's got a darker side, for those who are alone, those who don't have a family to be with. I always have an emotional moment at Christmas as I remember the people no longer with us to celebrate but then I can remember those who are still here and there's a balance between the good and the bad. That's what this story is about.
A short story posted on the Thebes Publishing website. It's New Year themed and all about friendship - the real, special friendships that live a lifetime.
in Wildthyme In Purple
A small town in Arizona is overrun by worried soldiers. A journalist hits town looking for a story... a story the military are desperate to cover up. What's more terrifying? The giant insect killing local cattle, or the relentless advance of Iris Wildthyme's red bus as she closes in on a party in Vegas with the Rat Pack?
A small town in Arizona is overrun by worried soldiers. A journalist hits town looking for a story... a story the military are desperate to cover up. What's more terrifying? The giant insect killing local cattle, or the relentless advance of Iris Wildthyme's red bus as she closes in on a party in Vegas with the Rat Pack?
in Locked In Space
Obverse Books 2023
Stuck in the bus, Iris is... well, let's save this till the book is out...