In which I share my enthusiasm for Neil Gaiman

Despite loathing English literature as a school subject I have written an actual essay about a couple of Neil Gaiman's short stories, with quotes and everything. The lovely people at Thresholds, the home of everything short story, have published it so you can read it on their website. It's called A Kind of Magic, and I've been intermittently singing the relevant Queen song all week.

If you've been around for a while you know I love comic fantasy (and Douglas Adams, and indeed Neil Gaiman) so it's not surprising that both stories are in that genre. I am still writing the stuff, it's just that with such luminaries to compare myself to I rarely find my own work up to my required standard. I had a comic fantasy story published in Bards and Sages Quarterly a few (seven!) years ago, so you could buy a copy if you want to know what mine looks like when it hits the target.