Cloudburst '72

Cloudburst '72 is published in the Cyberpunk 2020 issue of The London Reader. I'm delighted to have my name on the same front page as one of the founders of the cyberpunk literary movement and Nebula award winners like Ken Liu, James Patrick Kelly, and Cat Rambo and Arthur C Clarke Award-winners Gwyneth Jones and Lauren Beukes....and Jakub Szamałek - the principal writer for the game Cyberpunk 2077. Pretty illustrious company for my little story!

But more than that I'm glad to have a platform to explore climate change, sustainability, technology and the human relationships of the future.

The London Reader’s Foreword: This sharply-worded piece of minifiction by Rosaleen Lynch cuts into 2172 and a world ravaged by climate change. Her quick-paced and fine-tuned take on a solarpunk future explores the dense subjects of climate catastrophe and reproductive technology. Despite the state of the devastated world, life emerges when least expected.

Red Grass

Delighted to have my short story Red Grass published in the Motherhood edition of The London Reader (Winter 2019) alongside established names like Emma Donoghue.

The London Reader's Foreword: This painful work of minifiction by Rosaleen Lynch portrays an incident of domestic violence similar to what far too many women face. While those whose job it is to be guardians of the peace can end up complicit in abuse, it is often mothers, as we see in "Red Grass", who are forced to show strength and take on the role of peace-keepers themselves.

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