Mark A. Rayner

@markarayner.com

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Human-shaped, simian-obsessed, robot-fighting, pirate-hearted, storytelling junkie, Mark A. Rayner is an award-winning writer of satirical & speculative fiction.

cover art for A Milkshake Apocalypse - a short story from the Tundraverse - by Mark A. Rayner
cover art for A Milkshake Apocalypse - a short story from the Tundraverse - by Mark A. Rayner
cover art for A Milkshake Apocalypse - a short story from the Tundraverse - by Mark A. Rayner
cover art for A Milkshake Apocalypse - a short story from the Tundraverse - by Mark A. Rayner
cover art for alpha max by mark a. rayner
cover art for alpha max by mark. a. rayner
cover art for alpha max by mark. a. rayner
cover art for Alpha Max by mark a. rayner
a black cat stands on its hind legs and nibbles on a fern
cover art of the gates of polished horn, a collection of stories, by mark a. rayner
A swarm of Beakers (from the muppets), one of them a Goth Beaker, on a busy street
"into the spider-verse meets groundhog day meets edge of tomorrow meets ricky and morty meets the dark tower with drugs, apocalyptic cannibals, saber-tooth tigers, sexxxy clowns and one of an infinite number of dudes named Maximilian Tundra - @lolitmeirl, Twitter
re-creative logo -- a flower with laurels
whimsical yet unsettling ... rayner plays with the question of what's real. his stories are like though experiments, with imagined and reimagined histories - the toronto star -- with cover art for the gates of polished horn, a collection of stories by mark a. rayner
3D representation of the cover art of Alpha Max by Mark A. Rayner
R2D2 with its stomach gate open, and a cute little white and grey tabby looking out from robot's tummy adorably
A giant yellow easter bunnyy with pink feet, hands, waistcoat and bow tie opening the crypt door for Jesus. Jesus is walking out and says: Thanks man, I owe you one. by jon adams
grey cat looking very cross in a dark background
slide showing cover art of the gates of polished horn by mark a rayner, and this review: Places Strange & Familiar "Rayner has a unique and interesting voice, and while the characters and the events are sometimes drawn from beyond this world, they are also believable within the frame of the stories." -Lisa Timpf, The Seabord Review
tom gauld cartoon Soren Kierkegaard, 1843 Cartoon showing a man walking to the left and a dog walking to the right while they say: "Live can only be understood backwards" "but it must be lived forwards."
a happy corgi with a giant stick can't get it past security bollards, and finds a way under a nearby fence
slide that shows cover of The Gates of Polished Horn by Mark a. Rayner (markarayner.com/gates) with a quote titled: wonderful and varied! “I loved this collection of stories. They are all beautifully written and make one stop and think. Best savoured slowly, and you should give them time to sink in.” –Olga Miret, author of The Man Who Never Was
four cats walking towards the camera while other cats look back at a forest fire
Detail from the Garden of Earthly Delights: Bird-headed monster or The Prince of Hell - close-up head eating human torso with black birds, smoke and fire shooting out of the torso's ass
Putin wearing an obviously fake mustache and set of glasses
Amazon Hot New Releases in Canadian Short Stories -- shows three covers including The Gates of Polished Horn, a collection of stories by Mark A. Rayner
In the background: two corgies in corgie-shaped floaties in the sea, labelled: The Sea Peoples In the foreground, a corgie swimming, looking scared, labelled: Bronze Age civilisations
long haired orange cat with its fur all stuck up and the cat looking extremely grumpy and this caption: Morgenmuffel (german) a person who is grumpy in the mornings and doesn't like to wake up early
Buddha's face with this caption: The root of suffering is the giving of the fucks
tuxedo cat lying on a beach, mouth open, almost like it's laughing: behind him is a sign that says no dogs
weird black and white photo of a female model riding an ostrich among a herd of ostriches
two graphs -- one showing a straight line (bottom left to top right): what I planned --the other shows a crazy squiggly line that says: what happened
Hot new releases in science fiction short stories -- bestsellers on Amazon showing three covers, including: The Gates of Polished Horn, a collection of stories, by Mark A. Rayner
sign with a picture of a bottle of sanitizer that says: "Please satanise your hands here"
Amazon bestseller page for science fiction short stories. Showing covers for eight books, including the cover art for The Gates of Polished Horn, a collection of stories, by Mark A. Rayner
a circular sign that says Fashion Fart, but really wants to say Fashion Art
Rayner plays with the question of what's real. His stories are like thought experiments, with imagined and reimagined histories
black and white image of a person with their forehead on the kitchen table, missing their mug as they pour coffee, and cereal spilled next to a bowl
cute buff-colored kitten wearing round glasses and sitting at a keyboard
the gates of polished horn cover art, a collection of stories by mark a rayner, and a quote from terry fallis, author of best laid plans and two-time winner of the leacock medal for humor: “Mark A. Rayner’s formidable storytelling is on full display in this thoughtful and diverse collection. He’s a fine and creative writer whose characters and storylines are quirky, inventive, and often very funny. Bravo!” markarayner.com/gates
A cat with large eyes and ears looks like its smiling, with a banana in front of it
man in a gorilla suit bouncing up and down on a pogo stick
woman walking with human-scaled godzilla monster, which is holding an umbrella
a brown bear looking at the camera from inside a pool, with just it's head above the water
white cat leading a herd of sheep on a snowy pathway.
The dog in a fire meme, except instead of saying "This is fine" he says: "So I have a book coming out."
dairy cow standing on roof of a house
white coffee mug with lines on it that say --shh --almost --now you may speak ---nevermind, i have to go poop now
cartoon showing a simple figure looking at a circle labelled sadness. It produces a box and covers the circle. When the box has completely obscured it, we can see the box is labelled: jokes. by @worry__lines
cat looking cross in the deep snow, with snow on its head
cartoon of fridge looking at the internet with caption: on the internet of things - nobody knows you're a fridge
orange cat hanging out in a bunch of bananas looking chill as hell
Proofreaders marks (cartoon) With little marks for these: Delete Set in italics Set in Italy Preferably in Roombe Insert ellipsis Insert cyclopsis Wrong font Horribly wrong font Ant problme Insert Colon Good Grief! Add Mustache And a Stetson Hat Curl mustache Flying mustache More Drama More hypnosis Insert space Write faster Got bored, played tic-tac-toe Word tornado by Grant Snider
cat with its head stuck in large coffee mug
cat standing on hind legs pleading with a sign behind it that says: The cat has been fed. Don't listen to his bullshit
speed limit sign of 100 km/h next to a goat cart track in ireland
a group of wookies posing for what appears to be an album cover
night sky with this quote superimposed: "What is the purpose of life? ... To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the creator of the universe, you fool." Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
Sign showing a canada goose with its wings spread and the words underneath: Fuck aboot and find oot. A maple leaf under that.