Many of Steven's short stories - often akin to prose poems - have also been published at home and abroad. Gradually a full-length collection is taking shape.
The Summer is Ended
Scottish Cultural Press
It is Cam's last summer in Argyll before leaving for university in Aberdeen. During his last days in the West he must come to terms with the the changing relationships within his own family, his move to a new and alien world, and more than anything, the death of the best friend he has ever had.
The Summer is Ended is a compelling account of a deep friendship, and of a young man's struggle against an oppressive sense of isolation and loss.
Dan
Scottish Cultural Press
It no longer even mattered what his father thought now; he had as it were thrown himself across the wide gulf that had been between them with a whole heart,; he had beaten swords into ploughshares. He was back where his heart belonged.
Most of Dan's eighty years had been spent in a highland glen - his only absences from the idyllic world of his childhood and later on, of his marriage were an unhappy period as a student in Glasgow and a brief spell in Africa during the Second World War. This is Dan's story as he looks back through the years - his home, the war, his family and their conflicts - and at the decline of the Highland way of life that he so loved.
"have we a new Neil Gunn on the horizon?...The angst, the depth of feeling conjured up by this young writer is remarkable."
"...a young writer to be watched...[with] the energy, the fluency and an indefinable sense of love for whatever, whomever his pen touches."
The Unborn
Janus
When Ivan and Kerry set off from the dark and miserable caves which have been the only homes they have known, their aim is to save their much-loved leader from the hands of the Priests - hideous servants of the Voice. But once having escaped to the true land, they are caught up in events so desperate and profound that the eternal destiny of their entire race - the unborn - seems to depend upon their success or failure.
