Stephen Lean

The first two stories in the ‘Dangerous Playthings’ series are now finished and you can read them for free!

They’re approximately 6500 words each and you can see a synopsis of each one on my short stories page.

I’m currently working on the third one and there are two, possibly three, more to come after that.

Then I will be combining them all into a collection which will be for sale on Amazon Kindle, and once that’s done there’ll be a paperback version as well. Phew!

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There’ll be some more free stuff to come for all subscribers but at the moment I’m working flat out on the stories so you’ll just have to trust me on this. Have I ever lied to you?

Here’s my contribution to Chuck Wendig’s ‘flash fiction challenge’. The brief got my writerly juices flowing, it was as follows:

Go to Your Favorite Music Player. Dig out your digital music collection.
Hit SHUFFLE, then “Play.”
Meaning, let a random song come bubbling up out of nothing.
The title to this song is the title to your story.
Use the song for inspiration, too, if you feel so inclined.
Let’s tighten up the word count a little, too –
You only have 500 words this time.    Read more »