Claire Nixon

A stroll through a writing career...

Published Work

 

 

Butchery Pleas -- short story -- due to be published in Morpheus Tales July 09 -- www.morpheustales.com

 

It-The Black Death -- short story -- due to be published in Twisted Dreams Magazine Feb 09 -- www.myspace.com/twisteddreamsmagazine

 

No Need to Panic, Doomed Cargo, The Allotment, ebay, Eyes at the Back of My Head, Broken Bodies -- short stories -- to be published in The Grail's Charity Book 2008

 

Loving the Enemy, Open Road, Seventeen Letters and One Reply, The Postman's Bicycle -- short stories -- Against the Clock, 2007

 

Grandpa's Chair -- poetry -- Against the Clock, 2007

 

Blackmail -- short story -- Skive's The Short Story Quarterly, issue 4, August 2007, www.skivemagazine.com

 

Dad's Dinosaur Tooth -- children's piece of flash fiction -- Featured on Motherwise, won first place, Minders' Keepers, May 2007

 

Still Life, The Black Death, Eyes at the Back of My Head -- short stories -- La-fenetre, Jan 2007, ISSN: 1753-3449, http://la-fenetre.net/2007-03/bydesc/01-2007.html

 

My Sleepy Head -- poem for children -- La-fenetre, Jan 2007, ISSN: 1753-3449, http://la-fenetre.net/2007-03/bydesc/01-2007.html

 

First Cut -- short story -- UKAuthors Anthology, 2006, www.bluechrome.co.uk 

 

Still Life -- short story -- Secret Attic, September 2006, www.secretattic.com/booklets.htm

 

The Reckoning -- short story -- Skive's The Weather Man anthology, August 2006, www.skivemagazine.com

 

Tabitha & Pirate Jim -- Available now! An audio story for children -- Audio Stories For Kids, 2006, www.audiostoriesforkids.com

 

Old Biddy -- short story -- Antithesis Common Literary Magazine, June 2006, www.antithesiscommon.com/Issue4/cover.htm

 

Delusion -- short story -- Insomnia Magazine, May 2006, www.insomniamagazine.net

 

Made to Order -- short story -- Skive Magazine, issue 2, April 2006, www.skivemagazine.com

 

Stepping Stones -- short story -- R S Publishing, Jan 2006, www.rspublishing.com.au/viewbookshop.php

Feedback on Stepping Stones:

What starts out as a gruesome discover left me gasping. Claire Nixon is a new breed of horror writer. Knowing what she had planned she keeps the revelations just right, a true mistress of the art of suspense, of redemption nearly regained when she piles it on. Not gratuitously, this is well thought out in its climatic vision of a mind whose depths are slowly spawning its own essence. Deep, dark, describing this piece would not do it justice. Suffice it to say other famous writers seem tame compared to this. More frightening than `Psycho'. Lutz.

Christmas Morning -- flash fiction -- Xulonpress' anthology Home For Christmas, Nov' 2005, www.xulonpress.com/HomeForChristmas

 

Grumpy Old Man -- short story -- UKAuthors Anthology, Nov' 2005, www.bluechrome.co.uk/store/shop/item.asp?itemid=115&catid

 

Still Life -- short story -- Scifantastic Magazine, Published 2005, www.scifantasticmag.co.uk/

Feedback on Still Life:

Just read Scifantastic from cover to cover.
What a great choice of stories – my favourites were, I’M A COOK, COLD HANDS, WARM HEART, and STILL LIFE.
Yes, okay, my stomach turned when on the menu was Fried Human Infant in I’m a cook, but I can forgive almost anything when a story is so well written. The same applied to Still Life. Made my skin crawl but couldn’t stop reading it. It fits in with the amateur sleuth in me/ the whole world it seems, and I was gruesomely interested in how the crime was committed, very CSI. The ending I liked. 

 

The Teapot -- short story -- Demon Minds, July 2005, www.demonminds.com/tales/the_teapot.html

 

Christmas Bloody Shopping -- audio tale for adults, Tell You A Tale, December 2004, www.tellyouatale.com/talesInCategory.asp?categoryId=31

 

Tabitha and Pirate Jim -- A children’s’ illustrated storybook -- ISBN 1-905059-30-2 -- published 2004

Please click on the link below for more information about this story and details on how to obtain a copy

www.simplyclaire.co.uk/tabithaandpiratejim.htm