Dixon James: 14 books

Angus is a sweet guy, but he's having a bad day in this funny short story by Dixon James. A hammered thumb, a lost opportunity and a generally bad luck day is topped off by a medical emergency, and Angus might just have to learn a little self acceptance to get through this. Besides,...

Short, post apocalyptic survival fiction from Dixon James Harlan, a pretentious poet looking for social media likes, ventures into the Restricted Zone to craft a viral meme about the dead Elder Civilisation, Something to get him into the next bracket of influencers. There he meets Percy,...

A Science fiction short story by Dixon James. You just can't make some people happy. Future society looks pretty good, according to Isobel. No money, anti aging technology, artificial intelligence, the post singularity world is one big party and Isobel is jumping right in. Not...

A Literary Short Story by Dixon James Some things cut deep even when you make an art form of artifice, and surface detail is never an asset when you’re dealing with death. Narcissistic to the core, Katie has her dream fashion job, a classic Mustang and a hunky country boyfriend. But...

A dark short story by Dixon James. A farmer hunts the foxes which are raiding his poultry. But he doesn't bank on the bold fox who seems to mock him; the opalescent, night seeing eyes staring at him out of the dark and making him doubt his most deeply held convictions. Killing the sinister...

Is it Drug addiction, Co-dependence Or love? Simon has been sleepless. Only a mysterious sleep drug from a late night street dealer, seems to help. And there's Carly. It's not much of a relationship, just weeks ago he was trying to cut her loose. Now, since he's been sleeping better, they feel...

An Urban Fantasy short story by Dixon James. Zoe is a young sorcerer, gifted and powerful. Give Zoe a porcelain plate and she can summon the ghosts of diner parties long gone. Long dead relatives will drink and smoke once more. Until the plate explodes, that is. Zoe hasn’t had any...

A darkly humorous short story by Dixon James Alistair isn’t bad tempered, goodness no, he's reached a mature age now. Anyway, he can't stand self righteous people. But when the evil cat from next door embarks on a killing spree in his frog pond, Alistair’s serene facade develops...

An urban dystopia short story by Dixon James. Glenda stands in the rain with her child. Protecting her baby has brought her here, chilled to the bone and waiting for a vital delivery. The world has gone rabid, her city twisted into an urban dystopia. Punkers and dealers rule the streets....

Enter a world where people are expected to wear clown makeup in public, In this absurdist black humour short story. In this smart, funny satire examining the masks we are required to wear, a tragedy in the life of a family patriarch causes him to reflect upon the strange hoops we are expected...

A humorous breakup story. Since Debbie lef his heart in tatters, Richard is unable to cook, to clean the house or even to leave the house. Reduced to a Breakup Man version of himself, depression sets in and Richard spends all day in front of day time television, crying into his stubble. Then...

A short story. Selma and Frith are alone, without help and stranded in a remote corner of interplanetary space. The two girls, orphaned and in peril, must save the unstable ecology of their home, an illegal space habitat.  Without their parents and their biotechnology skills,...

Jess is a young girl who has been punished. She has been sent to work at the Railway Historical Society as a part of a community work order, to paint trains. There she meets the old school Barry, who is obsessed with trains, runs the place and who has nobody now that his funding has been cut...

Death of a Lightly Scrambled Man, a disability short story. Parked in a wheel chair, royally messed up in the body and lightly scrambled in the brain, what can a disabled life hold for me? The routines of the hospital: being fed bland formula through a tube, being cooed to by hideously...