Trial Period is the latest short story by yours truly, available for your reading pleasure in Illumination, a publication on Medium. It concerns a former publisher and his young female subordinate, who form an unlikely friendship whilst working for a herbal remedy company. (No, nothing sexual happens, so if that’s what you’re after, look elsewhere.)

Instead of doing the usual thing of publishing it in chunks (it’s just over 10,000 words), Illumination have published it in full, mainly as a stats related experiment I won’t bore you with. However, in my view, having it all in one hit like this makes for a more satisfying reading experience, instead of needing to click from one part to the next.

This is a bit of an offbeat piece for me, but some of it reflects my present predicament. The protagonist isn’t me (he can’t be, as he doesn’t like horror) but he’s one of the closest characters to me that I’ve yet written. Speaking of horror, this isn’t a scary tale so anyone can read it, although it does have a supernatural tinge at one point.

Trial Period can be read here. Enjoy!