STORIES

...would you like a cup of oogie boogie tea with your reading?

These are things made mainly from words rather than paint or some other substantial stuff. I write stories short and long, and other made up things. I've been told I ought to refer to at least some of it as Magical Realism, which I take as quite a compliment, but it's just what comes out of my head.

Some are whole, some in progress, some are missing... none are published, though, so if you'd like to read anything properly, you'll have to either get it from me, here, or wait till some brilliant publisher or agent trips over this website and decides to make my stories into proper books.

The Complete Jellyfish Chronicles - cove

Novel

The Jellyfish Chronicles

The farfetched story of an even more farfetched girl... the snap of a drawer, the flap of a butterfly wing, or a jellyfish’s wave can change the world.

Short Story

A Coconut Yarn

Part fairy tale, part lesson in esoteric bio-botany, a strange tiny novel that might have been found neatly tucked into an old (uninhabited) coconut shell.

Probably a Novella

???

There's more to come along these lines, percolating nicely in my head, and I shall put it here when it falls out into words.

Work in progress.

The House in Left Field - book cover (design and artwork by Ann Cognito)

Novel

A counterfeit biography layering the past, present, and highly unlikely. Tangents are not always out of the way and epiphanies are not always out of the ordinary (nor are they under any obligation to make sense).

The House

in Left Field

Novel

Stella Fische's forwarding address... also where some of the tangents in the first book fall into place, and more sprout.

Work in progress - mostly done.

Third Palm Tree

from the Left

Novel

In which Stella does exactly that, in Peru...because after everything else, why not ?

Work in progress - half done.

Take What's Left

and Add Chocolate

Cookbook

A fantastically illustrated collection of very interesting and somewhat unusual recipes, including the pesto.

Work in progress.

Cookbook

A delicious and beautiful read even if you don't often invent something from nothing in the middle of who-knows-where.

Work in progress.

Cookbook

Brilliantly weird and yummy ways to brighten up the kitchen, the self, the garden, the world...

Work in progress.

Recipes from Left Field

The Hermit's Cookbook

Oogie Boogie Tea

Coffee Table Book

Oddities: A Summary of the Life and Work of

Dr. Otto Lunsch

A richly illustrated, beautiful, baffling glimpse into the inner workings of a possibly extraordinary person.

Novel

The Complete

(as can be)

Life and Work of

Dr. Otto Lunsch

Artist, scientist, sea-gypsy, marine hitchhiker, eccentric... not all those who are lost on a deserted islands want to be rescued.

Work in progress.

Exhibit Poster (design and artwork by Ann Cognito)

Blurb

The Blurb from

the Exhibit of

the Collection of

the Estate of

Dr. Otto Lunsch

One of the most informative and least illuminating blurbs ever to accompany such an fascinating body of work.

Memoir

The Expedition

The story of my walk to Ottawa - with my dog - for the planet, and of the Ottawa Climate Emergency Camp, and the Climate Emergency Sailboat

Etc

Works in progress

A very large herd of words in the form of poetry, prose-poems, stories, essays, ideas, and more