My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand

My Rabbit's Shadow Looks Like a Hand (2021)
Eibonvale Books

An experimental novella utilising many effects, including parallel columns and text grids, stories within stories and more, all combined into a unique and cohesive whole.

The novella was partly inspired by Don Marquis and his 'Archy and Mehitabel' sequence of poems. In this novella there are twelve shadow rabbits who create twelve texts (poetry and prose mostly) that are fully contained works but also interact with each other to form a bigger story.

These twelve facets are set in a frame by another story and it turns out that this framing story is also potentially framed in a larger cosmos.

A fantasy, a comedy, a magic realist adventure and an example of OuLiPo writing.

Students of Myself

Students of Myself (2021)
Elsewhen Press

"There are few students in my class. When one considers what the subject is, this isn’t surprising. I teach myself.In other words, I impart to my students facts and fancies based on my life and ideas. It’s the least popular class in the university and I doubt it will be funded for another term. But none of that is my fault. I wanted to teach a proper discipline such as ecology, but the authorities wouldn’t let me. They insisted that I teach myself; and as a result, I do so.

The students are given an assignment. They each have to write a short piece about how I spend my free time. But this is information I’ve always kept secret. I can’t imagine how they’re expected to know anything about my private life, certainly not in detail.

Clearly I’m being spied on. Unless it’s guesswork?

I read the essays anxiously.

Yes, only some of them have got it right…"