Edgar Million

Biography

Edgar Millions books are mostly sci-fi, with a dash of fantasy, horror and contemporary fiction thrown in.

I have numerous stories available on Smashwords all free of charge and one short novel, A Button To Save the World (available for a miniscule fee - or for free to anyone who follows me on Twitter and asks for it).

I grew up in London and studied Art and Animation at Central St Martins and Surrey Institute of Art and Design, and thanks to Smashwords have finally found something to do with all the short stories I write to distract me from the novel I'm now attempting to edit.

The novel, my first full length book, is going to be called “Ordinary” and would have published already if I didn't keep being interrupted by regularly having to attend a day job to earn money.

Smashwords Interview

What are your five favorite books, and why?
The Passion by Jeanette Winterson. The most perfectly written story of unrequited love and pain, war and beauty.

Something by John Irving, probably A Prayer for Owen Meany. JI brings this strange little character to life and makes I him and his tortuous voice so real and vivid that I've been back to it many times.

Fragile Things. Wonderful collection of Short Stories, intelligent, dark, and also brings the poorly treated Susan from the Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe in from the clutches of CS Lewis.

The Cement Garden. Creepy, sordid tale from the writer of his generation. Perfect from start to finish.

A brief history of nearly everything. Bill Bryson. The best book of popular science I've read. Brings difficult subjects to life.
What are you working on next?
Always writing stories, fragments in many cases, and re-writing and re-writing my novel, Ordinary about a man who travels to other realities and discovers in each that the versions of himself as the same boring berks as he in every world he visits.
Read more of this interview.

Where to find Edgar Million online

Books

Christmas Passed
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 6,940. Language: English. Published: November 18, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
A penniless young couple move into their first home in the run up to Xmas. It’s nothing special, but it’s a home, and with a baby on the way it’s everything. But the home holds a secret. A dark angry presence watches them and will force them to discover the dark secret of the house and of themselves.
Everything Is Going to Be Okay
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 5,390. Language: English. Published: April 6, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(4.00 from 1 review)
Some people made better use of lockdown than others, they mowed lawns, built sheds, finished all those little jobs they’d never quite had time for before, and Steve Harrison did all those things, then he made a time machine. Like all those other little jobs, he’d been putting it off for ages. Now it was time to go.
The Places Above and Below
Price: Free! Words: 1,110. Language: English. Published: March 11, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
The afterlife awaits you, but it is not quite what anyone expects.
Row Your Boat
Price: Free! Words: 2,970. Language: English. Published: January 23, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
A lump found. Cancer? Just Danny being a hypochondriac again. Except Danny has found something. A secret world so vast it could change everything.
The Last Christmas (or the, Ho Ho Holocaust)
Price: $0.99 USD. Words: 1,380. Language: English. Published: October 20, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
Have you been naughty or nice? Father Christmas knows. He’s appointed himself judge and jury of humanity. Will you survive?
Empathy
Price: Free! Words: 2,070. Language: English. Published: March 2, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Weird fiction, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
Kathy awakes to that ancient fear. Have they buried her alive? The truth, as she will discover, is far worse.
The Passengers
Price: Free! Words: 4,190. Language: English. Published: January 1, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » General
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
Have you ever stood in a clearly empty room and thought, I am being watched? I am not alone. You search cupboards, look behind doors, and despite finding anyone, still cannot shake the sense, of being studied. In The Passengers, we find Michael, a biologist, on the verge of finding the secret observer in each of our lives. But will he be allowed to discover the secret?
A Lucky Escape
Price: Free! Words: 2,140. Language: English. Published: September 24, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
A US president, one-time reality TV star, vain and weak, watches bombs fall from space, powerless. What should I do? He asks himself. He didn't think to ask anyone else, because he considered his own mind, a cut above all others. What if there was something we could do the avoid this outcome. In the early eighties a group of world leaders sit about a table and ask the same question.
The Witness
Price: Free! Words: 1,620. Language: English. Published: March 18, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Themes & motifs » Spiritual & metaphysical
(5.00 from 1 review)
The Witness When you die you return, a mute, invisible presence who watches all your days repeat. All your sorrows, all your joys. You watch your entire life replay as a mute observer. A witness.
Franny and June
Price: Free! Words: 10,920. Language: English. Published: March 5, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
‘Franny and June’ is ‘Freaky Friday’ meets ‘We need to talk about Kevin’. Remember all those body-swap movies in the 80s? Like Big and Vice Versa and ask yourself, what might happen if the doting parent misses their youth a little too much. Who wouldn’t like another chance to do all again, to get it right this time? To be young and pain free, careless and bright? Still, what price would you pay?
The Dream
Price: Free! Words: 3,690. Language: English. Published: January 7, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
Think about your children and imagine the worst. You think, when they are an adult, you can stop worrying. You never can, you never will, and this is the story of The Dream.
The Outsider
Price: Free! Words: 4,460. Language: English. Published: November 5, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » General, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Psychological
On a normal day, a bizarre tragic thing happened. The world cried out for answers, but the one man who might have had them had none to give.
Unfollowed
Price: Free! Words: 850. Language: English. Published: September 11, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » General
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
The good thing about Twitter is that it brings us so close to our heroes. The bad thing about Twitter is that we find we are as far away as ever. One ‘fan’ takes the adoration of their hero a little too far.
The September Harvest
Price: Free! Words: 2,520. Language: English. Published: August 28, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
The Headteacher wants to let Cassandra and Gary in on a secret. What they sell at the exclusive public school is not just education, but luck. And if you can buy your child an advantage in life, then you must, right? But at who's expense?
Parking Space
Price: Free! Words: 4,550. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Apocalyptic
(3.50 from 2 reviews)
How much would a little extra space mean to you? Cupboards overflowing? Do you long for a man cave? How about a spare room conjured out of nowhere. The very latest in interdimensional car and furniture storage. What could possibly go wrong?
Spying on Heaven
Price: Free! Words: 4,810. Language: English. Published: May 30, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories
(4.00 from 1 review)
Bog often sits up on the community centre roof. It’s his haven. He sits and listens to the groups which meet there through the dirty skylights. Today though, there’s a new group meeting at the centre. A small crowd of misfits claiming to be gods are meeting to talk through their worries and their anguish and Bog is witness to their strange delusion. Because they must be deluded. Right?
Billy Ray dreams of monsters
Price: Free! Words: 800. Language: English. Published: October 23, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller, Fiction » Horror » General
Billy Ray sleeps and dreams of monsters lurking in the darkness. They watch and wait. Billy Ray dreams of monsters, and monsters dream of him.
The League of Decent Chaps
Price: Free! Words: 8,570. Language: English. Published: July 20, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Fantasy » Contemporary
(1.00 from 1 review)
What if the world were different? What if rudeness and bad manners could be punished by a spell in an asylum or prison? What kind of a world would that be, and how would we get there. The world turns on one day in 1977, one day when everything changes. Nearly thirty years later the son who'd witnessed his Father's murder is at the heart of defending all the morals which his Fath
A Concise Re-telling of the Life of God
Price: Free! Words: 6,310. Language: English. Published: February 7, 2015 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Spiritual & metaphysical
Before the beginning, God was lonely. Finally the true tale of the life of God is told. From before the Big Bang through vaguely intelligent design to the present day and onto a rather bleak future The Concise Re-Telling of the Life of God documents the lonely misunderstood life of our all-seeing Lord and how She overcome her inauspicious beginnings and journeyed towards a happy-ish ending.
The Lifers - A Ghost Story
Price: Free! Words: 6,980. Language: English. Published: December 20, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Horror » Ghost, Fiction » Fantasy » Paranormal
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
There are different rules in the darkness. When she first starts her new job, working the night shift in a nocturnal call centre Elizabeth immediately knows something is wrong, a coldness in the atmosphere and her creepy colleagues watch her every move. There are different rules in the night. A dark secret lies at the heart of this community and Elizabeth doesn’t know if she wants to find out.
In Bloom
Price: Free! Words: 5,430. Language: English. Published: November 22, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Young adult or teen » Fantasy
The old man next door, Old Man Rab, has disappeared and been replaced by the sinister Mrs Hitchcock and now no-one remembers him, except nine year old Kim Cutbush. His Mum and Dad think he's mad but It’s not just Rab who has gone. All over the village, people’s loved ones are disappearing and being stitched, or ripped out of time, and no-one can remember them except Kim.
Superloo
Price: Free! Words: 5,660. Language: English. Published: October 28, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(5.00 from 1 review)
The entire network of Superloo’s* in London joined up for a single night to become a series of interchangeable pathways, crisscrossing the city, teleporting users of the service to random unexpected locations across the city, Martin tells his friends, but they don't believe it happened. But where did he go? * Pod-like spacy looking toilet facility. Possibly doubles up as teleporter cubicle.
The Secret Frequency
Price: Free! Words: 3,690. Language: English. Published: October 14, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Utopias & dystopias, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(3.67 from 3 reviews)
Jack Ellis had aged well. Although that was nothing new; not now. Everyone aged well these days. Looking from his perch down at burning city below he mused that aging well was no longer the problem, no need for moisturisers or multi-vitamins. Living well was the challenge nowadays. And it was all his fault.
The Photography Contest
Price: Free! Words: 4,450. Language: English. Published: September 12, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Action & suspense, Fiction » Thriller & suspense » Psychological thriller
(5.00 from 1 review)
A corrupt Government official discovers his intimate personal life is being chronicled online in a public photographic journal. The photographer though, plans to end more than his career.
Possibility - A SUM Inspired Story
Price: Free! Words: 1,040. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Fantasy » Short stories, Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories
(5.00 from 3 reviews)
What happens after you die? Instead of nothing, or heaven, you discover a world where every possible you who ever lived exists in a world made entirely of you.
Touching distance: 0.1mm
Price: Free! Words: 8,190. Language: English. Published: August 12, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Themes & motifs » Spiritual & metaphysical
Two lives. Two deaths. In one universe June lives. In the other Jim survives his wife. Both live on without the other. Desperately sad, but still sharing the same space. So very far apart.
Not Enough Hours in the Day
Price: Free! Words: 6,030. Language: English. Published: July 31, 2014 . Categories: Fiction » Science fiction » Short stories, Fiction » Women's fiction » General
(4.00 from 3 reviews)
Catherine Porter is drowning in life. Kids. Husband. Job. Not enough hours in the day. Then she finds a way to pause time. A way to become Mrs Perfect. The yummy mummy who has it all. Can anyone 'have it all' though?

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Smashwords book reviews by Edgar Million

  • Sacrifices on June 26, 2016

    Great story. Intriguing characters and very well written, exocative tale. Look forward to reading more.
  • Hollywood Ending on Aug. 01, 2016

    Really like this. Really nice tight story arc and moral to the tale. I like the way you point to the concept you should 'be nice to people on the way, up as you might mean them on the way down' but really subtly. Plus it has ghosts. What's not to love.
  • Where Women Live on Aug. 28, 2016

    Great story. Strong feminist message.