If you’ve never heard the term ‘Selkie’ before then odds are you’re not from Scotland. A Selkie is a traditional mythical creature that lives most of its life as a seal, bobbing about in the ocean, but on rare occasions will take off its seal skin to reveal the human beneath. Or in other words, Its a Ware-Seal! Stories of Selkies were popular in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and later were related in print by a number of early Victorian authors who introduced the idea of the immoral human peasant entrapping the beautiful selkie and having a child with her. For this version I’ve set it in the very…

Well… I’ve finally done it. Welcome to my slightly scruffy little corner of the internet. I’m a fifty-eight-year-old, so-far-unpublished author. Yes, I know that makes me an “author” only in my own head for now, but I’ve decided it’s time to stop writing just for myself and actually share some of the stories rattling around in there. I’ve been scribbling since school, when short stories felt like a private pastime. Later, boarding school gave me the perfect excuse to dive into Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, where I became a dungeon master and spent countless hours building worlds for my friends to stumble through. University took me to Plymouth, where I…