by Christine Wilks
short stories:
Dragon
At work the other women avoided her, even in the smokers’ room. But Megan didn’t care. She was too busy driving her career in top gear, trying to get into the fast lane, flashing and tailgating those slow coaches blocking her way. The only breaks she took were fag breaks - but she sucked fast and hard. She could work fifty, sixty hours a week no problem. That’s how tough she was. …read more >>
For The Best
Prring! Trudy blinks at the screen on the kitchen wall. It’s a text from Simon. She knows what it’s going to say. It’s time. Her body clock could’ve told her that, if she’d been listening to it - but she hasn’t, she’s been ignoring it for days. Dreading it. No use belly-aching, she tells herself (and suddenly there is an ache in her belly). At conception they agreed on a deadline, and this is it. …read more >>
articles and other writings:
Fitting the Pattern
This is a work in progress for my online MA in Creative Writing and New Media (password required).
Alice and the Digital Dump
Digging in the sand as a child at the British seaside, adults were fond of warning not to dig too deep or I might drop right through to Australia. What nonsense, I thought, but how fascinating, like Alice falling down the hole to Wonderland. Not so nonsensical now, I wake up my computer and come out in Australia, Japan, USA, or Canada. And like the looking glass in Alice’s parlour, I find my computer screen “turning into a sort of mist” and before I know it I’m through the glass into another world. …read more >>
Underbelly sound clips
This is a work in progress for CWNM (password required).
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