Gavin Turner

Gavin Turner writes literary speculative fiction where ordinary life begins to behave incorrectly.

His stories take place in recognisable worlds — offices, relationships, landscapes, small towns — but reality in these spaces is unstable. Rules shift. Causality bends. Memory, identity, and consequence do not always align. What begins as familiar fiction gradually reveals itself as something stranger: systems behaving just slightly wrong, but consistently enough to feel inevitable.

His work moves across several forms of speculative storytelling: metaphysical fiction, mythic intrusion narratives, bureaucratic absurdism, and reality-distortion science fiction. Though varied in setting and tone, all his writing explores the same underlying idea: that reality is not fixed, and that meaning often emerges from the places where it breaks.

He is the author of Chopsticks, a novella about stolen music and a curse that limits a musician to a single repeating melody, and A Mouthful of Space Dust, alongside other short fiction published in independent literary and speculative venues.

His work is for readers who enjoy fiction that sits between genres — where literary realism slips into the uncanny, and where the rules of the world are never quite stable.