About
R. M. Mayne is a novelist and bioinformatician originally from London, UK. He has published three books, most recently his debut short story collection The Ward at the End of the World (Bridge House Publishing, UK), and has co-authored more than one hundred scientific articles. When not writing fiction, he does research on blood transfusion safety at the University of Oxford, UK. He lives in a forest and is currently either under a cat or breaking something he’s trying to fix.
Coming H2 2026
I looked into her eyes and saw nothing but the serenity that had been conveyed every time I had gazed into them in the waking world. These blissful orbs watched as I drowned.
Three people are trapped underground. A man faces a firing squad after a strange ritual destroys his island paradise. A rescue team search an abandoned research ship for its missing crew. A woman drinks herself to sleep in a remote and dilapidated medieval tower. Someone dreams of the death of a mother and child they met in a park. All these people will be unified, though they don’t know it, when they find themselves in The Ward.