United Kingdom
I'm a fiction writer and editor based in Scotland. I write across a wide range of genres, my favourites being fantasy and horror.
My work has appeared in a number of publications, online and in print, including LampLight and Storgy Magazine. My short story, "Knock, knock, knuckle bone" will appear in Storgy's upcoming Shallow Creek anthology.
Isolated from society, immortal engineer, Alexander de Chénier, has created a miraculous machine in imitation of Edinburgh's famous Thus begins Alexander's reintroduction into a world that he thought he had abandoned forever. When he discovers the talented street singer, Sophie Carmichael, and naive student, Daniel Mackenzie, he decides to play a dangerous game.
The Lichen Man | A.L. Kersel In the mid-winter half-light, I crawl on my belly through a courtyard of statues. The snow is claggy and sticks to the fur on my chest. I sniff the air-pine, cinders, wet earth. Not much else. Not these days. The musk of a fox.
The Institute is prestigious and stretches skywards accordingly, white walls and grey slate against pebbles and shorn grass, on one side a bramble twist of bracken, on the other, the sea. I have a whistle, humming low and sweet under my breath, and I have a bodhran, skin stretched taught to be pattered by hand and stick.
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