So yesterday, I posted about a new short story, The Advent Calendar—written for The Kick-About and shared here in the knowledge that, really, no one likes to read short stories on a blog (or rather, on their phone).
The Advent Calendar is but one original story written in response to The Kick-About’s fortnightly prompts and to mark my 50th birthday on January 1st 2025, I have spent a good part of 2024 readying an anthology of my previous short stories as a paperback book, made possible through Kindle Direct Publishing.
Even the Most Shunned of Things brings together twelve stories and it’s been a satisfying process polishing them for publication as I prepare to hit my half-century. This is therefore an opportunity to say thank you to the ‘Kick-Abouters’, for their readership, as the prospect of ‘being read’ is part and parcel of the act of writing.
For those of you who know me even a little bit, you will likely be unfazed by this collection of stories in which strange and unsettling things happen to otherwise ordinary people; for others of you, I’m sharing here my writer’s bio, which pretty much sums things up:
“Phil Gomm is a writer and artist who lives by the seaside in the UK. His formative memories of listening to ghost stories around a candle flame on Christmas Eve shape much of his work. Those childhood moments live on in his imagination, and he sometimes writes stories for the child he once was. Phil likewise writes the sorts of stories that spooked him on Christmas Eve. As it turns out, he still rather relishes games of dread.
For him, to be a little bit afraid is to be properly awake.”
Even the Most Shunned of Things
Red's Kingdom 
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