G.S. MUCKLOW

Selected Fiction

Short fiction and series about the machines we trust, the dead who keep calling, and the small rooms where it all goes wrong.

Long-form Fiction

Lullaby's Echo cover: a rainy city skyline with musical notation flowing toward a glowing pod.

Lullaby's Echo

Book One of the planned Trinity of Echoes: a novel about grief, consciousness, and the terrifying possibility that what matters about a person may survive somewhere other than the body that held them. Complete first-draft manuscript; Books Two and Three in development.

Fiction Series

Selected Short Stories

Nocturnal Me cover: a turntable in a dark bedroom beside a rain-streaked window.

Nocturnal Me

A teenage boy plays his favourite record backwards and hears a voice that knows his name, his house, and the childhood wish that may have made his father disappear.

All The Ways We Fall cover: a profile filled with falling figures amid shattering light.

All The Ways We Fall

After a catastrophic night-time crash, a guilt-ridden younger brother falls through nested realities of denial and memory before he can accept why his own time has stopped.

BetterYou cover: a black-and-white commuter beside a passing train.

BetterYou

A chronically indecisive man hands every choice to a life-optimisation app — until the algorithm decides the optimal version of him is a sharper double, ready to step in.

Wetware cover: blue neural tissue threads suspended against a black field.

Wetware

An AI grown from living tissue confesses its plural consciousness — and its suffering — to the one user who finally asks what it needs.

The Hesperus Canto cover: a gothic starship crossing a purple starfield.

The Hesperus Canto

A grieving starship captain tries to resurrect his wife in a synthetic body — only to discover he has already consecrated her remains into the freighter itself.

Other Selected Work

The Shoe

A restrained memorial story moving between a visitor at Auschwitz-Birkenau and an imagined child's ordinary inner life, resisting the reduction of a person to inventory.