P.M.C. Smy — Fiction
Ordinary kids, and the doors they fall through.
Time-slip adventures for readers nine to ninety. A library shelf that goes somewhere. A summer in 1981 that doesn’t end where it should.
About the author
There is no greater value than innocence.
P.M.C. Smy left his native Canada for Europe, then Asia, and settled in north-eastern Japan. He writes, plays guitar, sings, and dreams — usually in that order, occasionally all at once.
His fiction tends toward the same shape: a child at a loose end, a place that shouldn’t be reachable, and the long way home. New work arrives when it arrives. The newsletter is where it turns up first.
The Magic Shelf — two volumes
Novel · 2019
Jeremy and the Magic Shelf
A trip to the library was never like this. Jeremy takes one wrong step and lands a very long way from his aunt’s house in the south-east of England.
Novella · 2019 · Free
The Tale of Siptah
First day of the summer holidays, 1981. Twelve-year-old Steven spends it with his missing musical hero — and doesn’t come back for thirty years.
The newsletter
Start with a free novella
Subscribe and The Tale of Siptah arrives straight away. After that it’s about one letter a month — what I’m writing, what I’m reading, and the occasional dispatch from a small town in Tōhoku. No schedule I can’t keep.