Below you'll find the stories currently published at Camy's Gaff. To read them just click on the graphic.
All of the stories are stand alone except for 'Feredir', which is a sequel to 'Nyquist' (though you don't have to read 'Nyquist' first). 'The Millrace' has one character from 'JJ and The Boys' in it.
I also write poetry (shock horror). Actually I write lyrics and poetry, but for the sake of your sanity I'm keeping strictly to poetry here ... though they're both one and the same as far as I'm concerned .... Yep, that makes no sense. So if you'd like to read them, click on the link above.
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A boy, his pigeon, and some crims. |
Whimsical. |
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written for the Turning Twenty Collection. |
Horror. |
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A Marby, Brian and Kitty tale for Halloween 2021 |
Whimsically Dark. |
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A tale for Halloween 2021 |
Darkly odd. |
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The continuing story of Marby and Brian.
Read Halloween 2020 first! |
Whimsical |
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Do we ever really know a devil's heart? |
Whimsical |
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Sometimes, whiffy feet can be a godsend... |
Whimsical |
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The woods are lovely, dark and deep... |
Whimsical |
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An Algy story written for the Ten Year Anniversary of AwesomeDude. |
Whimsical |
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David has an odd encounter on the way to the shops. |
Whimsical |
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Written for the AwesomeDude.com Halloween challenge 2012, Pleiades is my first horror. I won't say more except: read it. |
Horror |
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The final part of Algy's Peril in which Algy has to be rescued by his friends and falls head over heals in requited love! |
Drama |
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After his previous trouble on Hampstead Heath Algy decides it's better to try again than be scared off. Then his cousins arrive on a visit from Australia - with very unforeseen results! |
Drama |
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an Algy story written for the anthology 'Midnight Dude: selected Readings'. Algy, Alan and Tricky get into trouble when Algy discovers cruising. |
Drama |
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On the 4th July Cern announce they've found the long debated Higgs Boson. On the 4th July David falls out with Orin and storms off ... and meets Charlie, a very strange man indeed. |
Liminal |
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Halloo!, Jack's story, is set in a very real place. Whether the ending is as real, or just spurious neurons firing during death, is for you to decide - as is the reality of angels. |
Liminal |
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Schonk was written for Gee whillickers Challenge and is a tongue-in-cheek look at one family coming to terms with its proclivities. |
Comedy Drama |
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Alan comes home to find Keith, his younger brother, has gone off the rails and his parents expect him to sort it out. |
Light Drama |
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A letter from abroad to end an unsuitable relationship. |
Light Drama |
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Ray Brede is tortured by a mistake he made years ago. Then Ceil, a man Ray thought long dead, turns up out of the blue, and Ray's life changes dramatically. |
Drama |
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Algy Catvern breaks down during school detention, but is all as it seems? |
Light Drama |
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Happiness is often relative, and there are all sorts of happiness too. |
Light Drama |
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Some people are not what they seem to be, as Tomas finds out to his eternal cost. |
Dark Drama |
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A stream of consciousness during a day in November. |
Light Drama |
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At twelve or thirteen you get to go to 'proper school'. Neil wanted to stay at home, but fate had other plans. |
Light Drama |
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Valerie is enamoured of Reginald's Roger, whilst Guillermo and Kyle have secrets. On the day of Valerie's Christmas shopping expedition there's distinct 'trouble at mill'. |
Light Drama |
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During research for a script he is writing Neil meets Matt, a teenager living on the streets. Strangers at first, they discover they have more in common than they could possibly have imagined. They share a dark secret and together, plan revenge. |
Dark Drama |
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Sebastian is secretly in love with his best friend Richard, though he's hung up about his sexuality and knows Richard likes girls. Now he's convinced that his mother knows he's gay, and he's unsure how to get Equella out of his cave. |
Romance |
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A weird present and a keyboard player who's a pain, all add up to make Neil's introduction to Mike quite an interesting time. |
Romance |
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A perfect night looks like being spoilt ... or is Algy worrying needlessly? |
Romance |
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A tale of six characters. Some are in love, and some aren't. One is a prefect and one; an utter bastard. |
Drama |
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Supermarkets are stressful: even more so when you find your lover standing by your car, and your wife and son right behind you with the shopping. Perspective gives three points of view of the same situation. |
Drama |
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Kip likes his job: working backstage in the theatre. He gets to know Myers and Gerry, the theatre's two fly-men, and slowly, Kip finds his life changing. |
Romance |
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A difficult Prefect and a stupid rule, make Algy's life awkward. And to cap it all, he agrees to do a favour for his Housemaster. |
Romance |
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Cat's back for the holidays. Raging with hormones and in love with his best friend he decides his parents gin might be a laugh. Then he meets Will, a fellow traveller, and learns a few truths. |
Romance |
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Like many people, Mark has a fantasy lover, but the fantasy takes a dark turn that ends late one night in a fatal decision...
Written for The Hub's 'Voyeur' Anthology. |
Dark Drama |
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Amidst a world lost to hatred and killing, schoolmates and best friends Clive and Henry must make a decision that will determine the course of their lives. What will they choose?
Written for The Hub's 'Fear' Anthology. |
Dark Drama |
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On the day of the thunderstorm Chris realises he can't shut out his feelings any longer ... and he's late for work, too! |
Romance |
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When his mother picks up his journal: 'The Unrequited Love of Daniel Norfolk', Daniel decides its time to find the courage to tell Lucas. But life is just 'one strange ball of oddness', as he soon finds out. |
Romance |
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When Jonathan Sharp meets Jaques Lavalier he has no idea who his friend really is: but then he has no idea who he really is either. |
Fantasy |
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You find all sorts at boarding school, but when Frazer meets Nyquist on the first night back from holiday, his world is changed forever - in more ways than one. |
Fantasy |
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Hoppy falls in love with Beethee, an Imp, in this sweet otherworldly Halloween tale. |
Fantasy |
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A Master Vampire and his familiar - but who is who? Then Bob arrives, and Niki has to make some swift decisions to stop his beloved looking like an idiot. |
Fantasy |
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John Palmer is in love, but only comes to terms with it when JJ goes missing... |
Mystery Romance |
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Sid is obsessed with Jack, but Jack wants nothing to do with him because he likes Davey. When disaster strikes Sid sees a way to get rid of Davey forever... |
Action Adventure |
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Robert decides he's had enough, then Eddie finds out .... Can true everlasting love save the day? |
Dark Drama |
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Jame has something important to tell Marki, but he has no idea where to start, especially when he sees what his friend wants him to wear to the party. |
Romance |
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When Christopher Smythe gets a Valentine card his world is turned upside down - until he can fathom out who sent it to him ... and then! |
Romance |
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There is a very fine line between ending and beginning, as well as an inevitability. |
Drama |
