Author Archives: Rejected Short Stories

1941 The Ocean Spray Hotel, ‘American Style Bar’ Saltdean East Sussex. The hotel, like the men inside it, is a wrecked shell of its former self; the 426 bedrooms (which once boasted opulent Art Deco features) are now home to 300 veterans, exhibiting varying degrees of war trauma. Ivan Dâr has been living in theContinue reading “The Ocean Spray Hotel”

Dare half of the Phi Books, a collaboration with Alexandra Antonopoulou 1. Party Walls[1] The Wrong Intercom  Although I know little about her it would be accurate to say that Elizabeth Cho is the closest person to me in the world. If, for some reason, we pressed ourselves flat like geckos against the party wallContinue reading “Party Walls”

+Exhibitions & Conferences, doctoral supervision, funding Publications (book chapters & academic papers) Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2023) ‘The Future of Broadcast Media According to Kids’, Children’s Media Year Book 2023. Dare, Eleanor, Yamada-Rice, Dylan (2023) ‘Queer Psycho and The HE Circus: Applying Queering, Magic and More-than-human Theories to Immersive Visual Story Worlds as an AntidoteContinue reading “Academic Publications”

An excerpt from ‘Road’ Skin Vision John Lent could see his reflection in five CCTV screens. The large mole between his eyebrows stared out like a desiccated third eye. Lent had once been told that such a mole was a sure sign of a deep yet excitable thinker who needs to keep their ego inContinue reading “Skin Vision”

If you look at the code below you’ll see that my state is activated and defined by a number of factors, including the psychometric evaluation of readers, CCTV images of the South Bank area, financial and weather information and the height of the Thames at London Bridge. This may paint a rather confusing picture andContinue reading “The Boolean Logic of the Thames”

I am writing this with a pencil that is gradually wearing out. I can’t tell you how many of them I’ve got through to-date, hundreds, thousands maybe? I favour the egg yellow hexagonal ones with lamp black stripes along each edge. They hold so nicely in the hand. They feel so real and present. IContinue reading “Life Row”

“I’m going to have a crap and a cigarette, when I get back I want you to start telling me the truth” “Why am I being detained here?’ I’d been in the room for over three hours and it was at this point I caught myself falling into what certain healthcare professionals have identified asContinue reading “I’m going to have a crap and a cigarette, when I get back I want you to start telling me the truth”

My name is Flight Lieutenant Susan Kirts and I want to tell you about a crisis situation which too many people are ignoring. The problem is simple – there are too many homeless people in space. This may be stating the obvious to some of you, perhaps most of you with any common sense, butContinue reading “There are too Many Homeless People in Space”

I am the senior entomologist for the London Borough of Battersea. I have done this job for twenty two years, during which time most of my work has involved minor infestations and flea bites. In the last several years, however, I have been almost exclusively preoccupied by bees. Unfortunately this obsession has resulted in myContinue reading “The Truth About Colony Collapse Disorder”

“One should not intervene, it simply isn’t ethical, that has always been my position”. “With all respect Dr Linn, it’s a little too late for that argument now. We have intervened, so why stop at this point, when things are so critical?” “I wasn’t informed of these interventions and would never have sanctioned them –Continue reading “The Sinkhole Inquiline”