Rare Meat

~ Chris B.

My latest short story has been accepted for publication on Cold Open Stories, a community project to collect the best examples of Warhammer 40,000 fan fiction. If you’re interested in that setting or simply enjoy dark sci-fi then you may want to take a look! You can read ‘Rare Meat’ here.

A unit of veteran guardsmen and women have survived their allotted twenty years in the Astra Militarium and return to their home planet expecting a well-earned retirement. But the planetary governor has one last mission for them; to hunt and kill a very singular beast on an abandoned space station at the edge of the star system. Find out what secrets they uncover in ‘Rare Meat’.

Creative Writing Live Steam

~ Chris B.

On the evening of Saturday 23rd October I will be joining the Cold Open Stories team for their Creative Writing and Fan-Fiction live stream.

I’ll be speaking from 8:00pm – 8:30pm GMT on the subject of “Character-Driven Short Stories”, hopefully with time for a short Q&A at the end of my slot. I’ll share the link nearer the time, but if you’d like a notification of the steam then make sure you subscribe to the Cold Open Stories YouTube channel. Hopefully I’ll see you all there!

Cold Open Stories

~ Chris B.

I’ve recently had two stories accepted for publication on Cold Open Stories, a community project to collect the best examples of Warhammer 40,000 fan fiction. If you’re interested in that setting or simply enjoy dark sci-fi then you may want to take a look!

The Dark Stabba

Ork Kommando Kaptin Gron has a secret mission to recover a powerful weapon for his Warboss. But can he achieve his objective without being stabbed in the back (or the front)? Find out in ‘The Dark Stabba’.

A Matter of Time

Founding his own Ordo hasn’t lived up to Inquisitor Syman Kant’s vision. The work is unproductive, leads are few, and one-by-one his allies are drifting away. Can he prove the worth of the Ordo Digna, or is it doomed to fail? Find out in ‘A Matter of Time’.

The Things Behind The Door

~ Chris B.
Lockdown has trapped Beatrix in her house. But what’s trapped in there with her? Find out in ‘The Things Behind the Door’, a new audio drama short written by me and performed by Lisa Graydon as part of the Ragged Scratch podcast’s ‘Isolation Sessions’.
The Things Behind The Door
This was a fun little project that I got involved with recently. The Ragged Scratch Podcast put out a call for five-minute (or thereabout) long monologues from writers, and a call for voice artists with their own home recording studios. Writers were then matched with voice artists with the aim of completing this project while at home in lockdown, hence the name “The Isolation Sessions”.
Please have a listen if you’ve got five minutes. I’m sure you’ll agree that Lisa has done an excellent job, not only on performing my script but also with the sound production as well! There are some other wonderful stories in the other Isolation Sessions episodes, so I’d definitely encourage you to work your way through the back-catalogue if you have the time.

Frankie Fightwell On The Radio

~ Chris B.

Frankie Fightwell is back! Due to the coronavirus lockdown, this year’s Wandsworth Arts Fringe has moved online with ‘WAF In Your Living Room’. My 2018 award-winning radio play – The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell – is on the schedule and available to stream from the WAF website from 8th – 24th May this year.

Additionally, ‘The Final Adventure of Frankie Fightwell’ will be broadcast tonight – Saturday 16th May – on London digital radio station Riverside Radio at 7pm. A great opportunity to hear the show if you missed it the first time around, or if you want to relive the fun of the live recording.

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