The Many Worlds of Clarissa:
Stories from my Substack Vol. 1

Welcome to this first volume of short stories from The Many Worlds of Clarissa. These are all stories I’ve published on my substack (called The Many Worlds of Clarissa) which I’m now publishing wider as an ebook for those who prefer to read on other platforms. 

These stories are where I play a little and explore different ideas and topics without commiting to a full novel. Many of them could be expanded further in the future, so if there is one you particularly like, then let me know! Some of these are tonally darker than my other published fiction, although there is still no graphic violence, or explicit scenes of any kind. There is a kiss or two, and things end hopefully. I am not a grimdark writer in any way, shape or form! 

A Mixed Bag

A collection of ten short stories with a measure of the fantastic in each. Includes the following:

• The weaver’s daughter: A fairy tale about making friends with the monsters next door.
• What Jack found: When your son finds a fairy in the garden do you release him to potentially hostile forces, or risk your family to keep him safe?
• Awakening Iorwen: A sleeping beauty re-telling set against the consolidation of Roman rule in Wales.
• A lakeside meeting: Bernard is on the run from the hybrid butterflies he developed to interface with your brain.
• In the box: Two students find a mysterious growing box in their office.
• We need to talk: How can Damian absolve his guilt over the accident that crippled his sister?
• Spook school: There’s something different about the school next door, but it’s not what Josephine expects.
• The husband test: An unexpected package ruins everything.
• The Halloween dare: Nothing is as it seems when exploring the house at the top of the hill.
• Bargaining with a demon: An unexpected visitor gives Charlie an opportunity of a lifetime, but does she dare to take advantage of it?