Alun looks after things.The old railway. The willow by the black pond. The moss he presses into the joins so the arrangements hold. His mother, in the chair by the telly, who still makes his tea the way he likes it.It is August in Caerphilly. The heat has soaked into the land and will not let go. Four old men have already been found. One has not. Alun does not watch the news for long. He has his routes, and as long as the routes are his, the house will stay as it is.

In the remote valleys of Mid Wales, the land remembers.When a small research team arrives to assess an isolated valley for cultural and environmental protection, they find more than mist and standing stones. The place the locals call the Scar is not simply a geological feature. It is watching. It has rules. And it does not forgive those who break them.Jilly, a young researcher still finding her place in the world, quickly senses that something is wrong. Paths shift. Time sl...

Bethan has spent years keeping the past buried. As an administrator in local government, she is good at systems, at process, at moving things forward. But when she is sent to persuade an old man to give up his home for a regeneration project, something begins to crack.Memories she has long ignored start to surface, of a girl called Lily, of laughter that was never kind, and of a moment in childhood she has never allowed herself to examine. As the days pass, the boundaries between h...

This short is the first in a series of stories about a young Japanese woman named Satori.It follows her struggles in a near future Japan where her home town of Osaka has been destroyed and quarantined.She is forced to reconsider many of the truths she once held dear.She has also heard rumors that her brother may yet be alive...The story runs to about 5500 words and is the first in a projected series.

In the shadow of Caerphilly's forgotten quarries, where ancient Welsh legends whisper warnings from the deep, Rhodri returns to claim his estranged uncle's crumbling estate. But what begins as a reluctant inheritance unravels into a nightmarish descent into "Weird Wales." A realm where glitches bleed into reality, and the knock-knock of mythical Coblynau miners echoes as a curse.Haunted by ghostly visions of his lost love and fractured family secrets, Rhodri uncovers a forbidden le...

Red Light is an exciting new collection of 5 science fiction tales.A woman trapped between strange aliens and a stranger red light.Time travel where the mystery of his past and future is unraveled piece by pieceAn ark in space, and a woman who will do anything to save her son.A woman, a daughter, a machine.And, the lines blur between reality, the media, reality, and...Thought provoking and weird stories, some set in the vastness of space, some with...

In the mist-shrouded valleys and forgotten corners of South Wales, the past doesn't fade—it bleeds through, whispering secrets that twist the ordinary into the uncanny. Hauntologies: Alpha, the first omnibus in David Rees-Thomas's acclaimed series, collects Volumes 1 and 2—Cleaners and Other Weird Tales and Unfinished Stories in a Seaside Town and Other Weird Tales—delivering eight tales of spectral dread and eerie introspection across over 200 pages, complete with a brand-new introduction...

The King is a novella about family, about mushrooms, and about the paths they choose.

In the glitch-haunted sprawl of DragonGrid—a cloud-shrouded megacity where Welsh valleys twisted into silicon nightmares—Draze clings to fragile shards of the past, echoes of loss pulsing through his wired mind like eroding code.But a shadowy job pulls him into forbidden depths, unleashing a devouring force: a rogue entity forged in war's forgotten fires, starving for the raw essence of human nightmares. As realities fracture and veils thin, Draze must risk it all to choke the beas...

In the misty valleys of South Wales, a man collapses on Aber's busy streets with a fatal wound, his final moments shrouded in dawn's eerie haze. Enter Inspector Price: a steadfast detective blending unyielding grit with profound compassion, navigating a world where toughness and kindness are the keys to survival.What begins as a suspected mugging near a shadowy cemetery spirals into chilling intrigue. Forensics uncover a premeditated strike, and a faded vintage photo awakens long-b...

The Close at Hand is an exciting collection of 5 science fiction tales.A generation starship nearing the end of its journey.A mother and son and little green menA man who is as old as his obsession for the city he once lovedA betrayal at the edge of the universeAnd, a tale of a journey far far away, and yet, so close to home.Science Fiction Tales Volume 3

At 103, Dylan volunteers for the final mapping of his mind.He expects the end of forgetting.Instead, the past tears loose, raw, immediate, and still unfinished. A single metal horse warms in his palm. A single night from 1944 refuses to stay buried.Memory does not return whole. It diffuses. It erodes. It bleeds across decades until the boy he was and the man he is can no longer be separated.Diffusion, paired with its haunting companion story "Rewind...