The Hawken Edition

What Is Love?

A Valentine’s horror story

Awake Brain Surgery

On Dec 13th this year my wife Tara will have surgery to resect a tumour in her brain. She’ll be awake during the entire operation. Merry Christmas.

Can You See Me In The Shadows?  — A Micro Story

But can a parasite burrow into your psyche? Feed off…

The Chemo Chronicles

Updates on Tara Hawken’s journey through treatment for brain cancer.

Moonlight Sonata

*This is a slight edit of my original award-winning story published in Midnight Echo…

Kill, Feed, Grow

Attack from the deep.

Eying the morning line up, I pull my surfboard from the back of the car. It’s…

Family Interrupted.

In September 2010 my wife Tara was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumour. I won’t go into crazy detail here about the…

Painful Toddler Erection

Painful. Toddler. Erection. Not three words I ever thought I’d Google together. But, there I was at 3am on a weeknight, searching…

The Easter Eggs of Hellbound

The Easter Eggs of Hellbound

What are Easter Eggs? I’m not talking chocolate wrapped in multi-coloured aluminium foil. I’m talking about treats hidden away within a story that you have to search out and find. The term has become fairly popular of late…