Penned: A Rub-a-Duck Story

Trapped a hundred years in the future with no friends, no direction, and no magical rubber duck to help him escape, Penn must scour the Earth in the hope of finding his way back home. Blighted by a curse of immortality and stalked by an eternal shadow, the path ahead promises to be a long and winding road…

Penned is a six-part series of short stories set in the Rub-a-Duck universe, chronicling the events that follow the conclusion to A Quack in Time. Featuring Christmas specials, excavations into literal and psychological depths, and an epic two-part finale, Penned dares to go where no duck has gone before.

Read all six chapters now!

1. The Nutquacker
2. Ruins of a Mastermind
3. Quackdrophenia
4. Eternoël
5. Rich in Heart
6. Rich in Spirit

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Short Story: Penned #6 – Rich in Spirit (Part 2 of 2)

Age-old mysteries are finally revealed as a grand army rises and a terrible war is waged. With the past, present, and future hanging precariously in the balance, only one thing is for certain: darkness shall fall on the day the ducks align…

Download: Penned #6 – Rich in Spirit (bookfold)

Short Story: Penned #5 – Rich in Heart (Part 1 of 2)

Stalked by an eternal shadow, Penn is thrown into a deadly confrontation and forced to make an impossible choice. Damaged by a broken heart and a broken spirit, can he trust himself to do what’s right in the moment of truth?

Download: Penned #5 – Rich in Heart (bookfold)

Penned will conclude in “Rich in Spirit”, releasing on 25th February!

Coming Soon: Penned – The Final Chapters!

“Who wants to live forever?”

Stalked by an eternal shadow, Penn is thrown into a deadly confrontation and forced to make an impossible choice. Damaged by a broken heart and a broken spirit, can he trust himself to do what’s right in the moment of truth?

Age-old mysteries are finally revealed as a grand army rises and a terrible war is waged. With the past, present, and future hanging precariously in the balance, only one thing is for certain: darkness shall fall on the day the ducks align…

Penned will conclude in the two-part finale, “Rich in Heart” and “Rich in Spirit”, coming later this year.

Penned: The Story So Far

Need to catch up on the entire Penned saga to date, or just want to relive the last year of Penn’s adventures all at once? Then I’ve got you covered! The first four exciting chapters – from The Nutquacker all the way to Eternoël – can now be experienced in one handy, dandy bumper-length 100 page collection! As an extra special Christmas treat, I’ve even thrown in a specially-written Prologue chronicling Penn’s previous encounters with the magical rubber duck. This truly is the most definitive way of reading the whole Rub-a-Duck story so far…!

Download: Penned – The Story So Far (Chapters 1-4)

Short Story: Penned #4 – Eternoël

“I wish it could be Christmas every day…”

Christmas has finally come for Penn. As snow and cheer begin to fill the frosty air, the lone wanderer is miraculously reunited with a long lost friend who strives to remind him what the festive season is all about.

But can happiness truly ever be eternal for somebody who never grows old…?

Download: Penned #4 – Eternoël (bookfold)

Short Story: The Christmas Present (From “Seven Wonders of the Word”)

This story is taken from Seven Wonders of the Word, available to buy in paperback

Holidays are here again and it’s the most wonderful time of the year – for everyone except Henry. Still reeling from festive heartache the year before, he is struggling to get into the spirit of the season, even despite his friends’ best efforts to cheer him up. But when a sprightly new face enters his life, tantalisingly wrapped gift in hand, will he be able to stop acting like a Scrooge and accept the Christmas present?

Download: The Christmas Present (PDF, bookfold)