Klepsydra writer
Sandra Bond is a novelist and poet from the British Midlands. She knows not only that people prefer hamburgers to poetry, but why they do.
Stories
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Ballades, blank verse, and one lone sestina from Sandra Bond, who is "talented, knowledgable, insightful, entertaining, generous, kind and quite brilliant". |
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Three Men In Orbit by Sandra Bond "They're back... and they've got a sextant!" A steampunk extravaganza set in an early twentieth century where science has conquered gravity and colonised the Moon, but where other issues of the day remain as problematic as in our own timeline... such as the vexed question of votes for women. The beloved characters of Jerome K. Jerome's THREE MEN IN A BOAT take a pleasure-trip into space in an anti-gravity sphere, only to find themselves caught up in shenanigans and skullduggery millions of miles from anything to be found on the Thames. Will they be able to make it back to Earth with their skins and their reputations both intact? |
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The Devil's Finger by Sandra Bond "Cryptids and comedy don't mix." Looking after outspoken comedian Jemima Charfield keeps her super-assistant Imogen Payne so busy, she barely has time for a social life. But when Jemima uncovers a real, live, shapeshifting beast, Imogen will need to surpass herself... or risk a murder charge for both of them! Cryptids, comedy, catastrophe and carpet warehouses combine in a crisply witty supernatural thriller. |
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The Psychopath Club by Sandra Bond "He's a good kid. He just wants to kill you." The high school misfits and loners who call themselves The Psychopath Club don’t know that among them is a budding serial killer, Darroll Martock. Now, thanks to an enigmatic creature from somewhere beyond imagination, he’s gained a frightening new power...and this cold, remote Midwest town will never be the same. “The Psychopath Club is dark, funny and plays with your expectations. ...A proper psychopath, an unwanted horse’s head and more than one slip into strange new worlds...drawing you on to see just where the outrageous Darroll Martock is going to end up.”Stewart Hotston, author of Tangle’s Game |