Everything is grey, from top to bottom, heaven to earth.They say the sky was once blue or sometimes even pink and orange. The trees were green and the people white and black. But now we are all grey; covered in the ash of a time lost and squandered that has left us all the same.And now we are rebuilding. A new world… a big grey one.(This is a reworking of story I had previously began to write - Yesterday Was Grey)

Here's what you need to know.

"The Grid" a highly regulated internet of the not so distant future has almost entirely eradicated crime. Through some kind of advanced AI tech the police are able to collate user data into behavioural profile pictures -  otherwise known as  ‘stealthies’ - aimed at finding and even predicting criminal personalities. The police force continues to exist, but their capacity has become subjugated to the realms of data analysis and software maintenance.

Living "offgrid"  has not been abolished, but without a "Gridtag" - a universal internet ID that allows you access to the Grid but also gives the police the ability to monitor you - many necessities are inaccessible. Shopping, driving and telecommunications to name a few, as well as the ability to travel internationally. You following so far?Despite this, there are still a few that attempt to live outside of mainstream society as much as possible.

This is where Damien Budinski and Sahar Smith come in. It's their job to keep tabs, real world tabs, on these individuals who choose to live a life offgrid, in order to assess their threat as best as a human mind can.Usually less exciting than it sounds, their job is about to get difficult as they are tasked with finding a man that will prove impossibly illusive. But who is he, why is he attempting to take down The Grid and what's the deal with his apparent psychic powers?

Missing the rush hour train seemed to have paid off for our nameless protagonist, finally having time to stretch out and take a nap on the way to work. That is until the ticket conductor comes round and everything seems to be a bit...off. Moving down the carriages most of the people on board seem to have a lot to say, some of them rather depressing, and many of them looking a bit worse for wear.Who are these strange characters on the train and just where are they going? Read on to find out.

A silly short poem I wrote when I couldn't sleep. It made me laugh at 3 in the morning but probably isn't half as funny without the sleep deprivation. Maybe I'll write some more if I can't sleep tomorrow night.

An unconvincing private investigator, a smoking black cat, and an inner child at his wits' end. A trio of characters all about to entwine their lives with Tom.

A worrier by nature, Tom's life has come to a bit of a standstill, unable to push passed his inhibitions. His  perspective on life is about to be radically altered though, after a chance meeting with a  hitch hiker named Cotton. Pale and gaunt, and dressed in a parrot onesie, Cotton strikes Tom as a little on the odd side. After letting her into his car, a conversation unfolds and things begin to get surreal. For one his inner child is suddenly sitting on his shoulder.

And these are not the only peculiar characters in town Tom is about to encounter. A beautiful man with a power over anyone he talks to seems intent on talking to him too. But is it really Tom he's after?

Join Tom in a surreal adventure set in this seemingly mundane world.

This is a reworking of a story I'd posted recently. I've changed the perspective to third person and altered the plot a bit.Thanks for reading, hope you like it :D

Your standard post apocalyptic setting: Ash covers the earth, a small community hunkers down in an old power station tower and a girl from the past with bright blue eyes awakens, blind to the world around her. Joined by a gang of not so talkative survivors and one very talkative one, they must traverse this bleak grey world, devoid of colour, and maybe in the process inject a bit of life back into it. Because when things are grey, all you can try and do is see the bright side. Course it's not always so easy.

Political powers are shifting and this time they look set to cement their hold over the Western Alliance. Set in a world much like the our own, the populations of Europe and America are becoming restless. As tension boils in the background, everything changes with the introduction of a major biological technology. Debilitating illness as well as a more sinister threat faces the only person standing in the way of those that seek to control, but things are changing for our unlikely saviour too and she may not have been as alone and powerless as she first thought.

Think British romcom meets... well maybe just think British romcom.

A story about Sebastian (Seb to those he knows...which aren't many), a university student still not comfortable in his own skin, searching for the rule book on how to socialize. He's shy and sometimes a bit pretentious, maybe even narcissistic but means well at heart...or he at least he sees it that way. All he wants really is to find love in a perhaps too quintessentially British manner.

As it's set during his university years in England it contains a lot of drunken stories, stumbling around Oxford.

Hope you enjoy it. Would love to hear any feedback.