Songs Of The Dead - co-written by Sarah Singleton - published in GUD magazine, issue 0

Chris Butler was born in Nottingham, England in 1964. When he was one year of age he decided to move to nearby Melton Mowbray and his parents and brothers went along with that decision. He was unprolific in the pre-school years, his artistic output being somewhat primitive in nature. At some point he realised that the outside world was difficult to comprehend and so he developed a richly imagined internal one instead.

Despite having a very good English teacher, Chris inexplicably veered off into the sciences, eventually graduating with a BSc in Mathematics and Computer Science from Birmingham University.

While maintaining gainful employment doing stuff with computers, his need to tell stories eventually got the better of him. And so he manages to find time to write fiction, which he loves despite (or perhaps because of) its endless frustrations. He lives on the south coast of England and loves books, film, music and other modes of artistic expression.

Chris is a member of the Montpelier writing group, and also regularly attends the Milford UK workshop, held annually in Wales over a week in late summer.

He is the author of the novel Any Time Now, and numerous other stories.

(Cosmos Books, £12 UK / $15 U.S. / $20 CAN, 161 pages, paperback, ISBN: 1587153289)

Cover artwork and design by Lauren Halkon.

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Kate Chapman lives alone now, the life she expected to live cruelly snatched away from her. When a stranger crashes into her life she thinks perhaps she might start to live again. But the stranger is more than he seems. He is displaced in time, manipulating forces he believes he can control. He knows that he is falling in love with her. But Kate, and those she loves the most, are in danger. And time is running out.