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AJ Reid writes from a salt-scoured stretch of the Wirral coast, where the Irish Sea claws at the land. His stories carry the bite of Northern grit: tense psychological thrillers, brutal dystopias, sly satires and raw surreal shorts and poetry.
Expect moral vertigo in the style of Graham Greene, Ballard’s hollow futures, Roald Dahl’s wicked reversals and Jung’s mythic shadows — always delivered with dark humour and a stubborn core of kindness that refuses to die quietly. Whether it’s the sinister “grey noise” haunting a sound engineer, a flooded fascist Britain or a bullied boy discovering he’s the reincarnation of King Arthur, Reid keeps circling the same unforgiving question: what survives when everything else is stripped away?
Writing Magazine called his work “darkly playful.”Books available on Amazon and Gumroad.
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