Colin writes: "I’m 42, married, but no children. I work for an export division of a well-known Multinational fmcg company – you’d know their brands, if not their name. We recently moved to just outside Bristol, so decorating and putting together flat-pack furniture are other excuses not to write.

"My previous appearances have included several in Aphelion webzine, in Fragmented Infinity, and in Peridot Books. My novel Vengeance was published by the now defunct www.hiddencave.com.

"My webpage is at www.geocities.com/colin_harvey, and includes a fairly grim photograph – one of my pet hates is photographs. I’ve been working on a novel, Lightning Days for the last eighteen months. I may finish it one of these decades, and actually get to write a short story – writing articles for TWU is my only distraction, in writing terms, from what has become quite an epic."