S P Mount

Originally from Scotland, S P Mount travelled the far-flung corners of the world through a career in tourism before settling in Canada where he lives with his rescue dog ‘Quentin'–the senior party of the small business they own together.

S P considers himself ‘against the grain’–a disposition that bemuses lifelong friends. While some of the darker aspects of his writing often arise to surprise even him, he usually roots for the underdog and has a penchant for trying to write the bad guy likeable. He has an innate aversion to clichés such as apple pie that tastes ‘just like granny used to make’.

S P has studied the art of writing for many years and achieved his creative writing qualifications in British Columbia. he is published in numerous anthologies.

"I might have ‘multiple personality disorder’, but still, I know 'we' only ever need a table for one."

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Website: https://www.amazon.com/S-P-Mount/e/B004JRF6R2/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_1
Twitter: @SP_Mount

• Ignatius Ignoramus, The Ill-Fated on Sep. 08, 2012
  
  TFR, finally - and anyone else reading will know what that stands for by reading the foreword. How utterly and deliciously ridiculous was this short story. And what a lovely surprise to find it dedicated to myself - although I am not sure at all if I'm proud of being responsible for any author to be able to reach into their inner idiot to produce such a piece of nonsense. While the story is absolutely ludicrous, and no doubt an amusement, I really think children would really like it too, and I could really see illustrations of the highly inventive characters accompanying this story. But what struck me, and for any reader coming to another, more serious Jerriann Law story, was the sheer flow of the writing and the unusual imagination that are beautifully demonstrated here, an indication of how the author's mind's eye can stray across an abyss of imagination with ease and inventiveness This little tale is eloquently written and innately told from the heart of a true born storyteller who rose to a challenge to cater to the nonsensical, Yes, I'm acquainted with the author digitally, but I do not give out full marks SIMPLY for that reason. A very well deserved 5 stars for the quality and for conquering a style that, initially, did not come easy to this writer.
  
• Dead Man's Fingers on Sep. 09, 2012
  
  Familiar with other works of this author, I think this piece was an earlier one. What I find most interesting is her style and word choice, almost foreign to me as a Brit, but I enjoy them, find them quirky. This comes under weird fiction, and most certainly that's what it is. I found the story amusing in that amid everything horrific the characters found themselves, there was time for an obsession with a flying car, a hint of steamy romance as well as the main characters still maintaining a polite demeanour when having tea and cake as if nothing terrible was befalling them at all - which left me wondering if the humour was unintentional as it's not mentioned anywhere. But it certainly made me giggle a few times. With twelve chapters it is a quick, easy and enjoyable read.
  
• Red Slippers on Sep. 26, 2012
  
  If I had been a child, this would have been the kind of story that would have set my intrigue going, an inanimate object with some kind of power attached. As usual, I found the author's choice of wording quirky, middle American, but I guess that's only my own European sensibility; being unaccustomed to it. I don't know much about children's choices today, or what age group this might appeal to, so perhaps not best qualified to comment. Endearing and humorous, perhaps with a latter day innocence and written simply enough for an older 'younger' child to follow on their own.