This is the page where my modesty lives! These are some of the generous words that people have wrote about me and my writing...

"Over the last 2-3 years I've known Paul, he's earned my respect and admiration on countless ocassions. He's become one of the most splendid and closest of friends, I've ever had the privelage to get to know. Helping to put this Web-Site together has been considered a very distinct honour. His short pieces are crammed to the rafters with the most marvelous of engaging characters, plot twists, and stunningly imaginative ideas. They range from moving, open and sincere anecdotal pieces, to the most terrifying of horror-based tales. Each filled to the brim with Paul's inimitable warmth, and tongue-in-cheek humour. Keep up the outstanding work Paul. Long may you continue to entertain us all."

Yorkshire Honeymoon is a slightly quirky and thoroughly enjoyable look at the English lifestyle, as it's revisited by a new groom on honeymoon with his American bride. From the inevitable run in with English 'cuisine' (and his wife's somewhat predictable reaction to her first taste of the culinary delight known as 'black pudding'), to the sights of Yorkshire and his home, Gifford carves off a slice of English life that will serve the most finicky of reading palates.

Writing with the same kind of affectionate warmth that made Herriot's "All Things" series such a hit, the author nevertheless maintains his own unique style, which is sexier and a bit edgier than Herriot's work.

A story of new love found and old love revisited, Gifford shares with us his view of his country after his absence from it, and his pleasure in seeing it, as if for the first time, through the eyes of his new bride. Funny, fresh and yet still managing to convey the kind of comfortable enchantment found only in the best-loved stories of home and hearth, Gifford pens a winner you will not soon forget-and will want to enjoy over and over again.

"I have one word to describe Paul's serial "Curious Accounts of the Imaginary Friend" on Virtual Tales. WOW. Yes, there are tons of other adjectives I could use to relay how wonderfully each piece grabs you and won't let go of your attention until it's done with you, WOW just seems to capture it at this moment. I just received the 4th installment and I was blown away. I never saw the ending coming, much like most of Paul's twists. It's nearly at the point where I'd much rather read a PS Gifford than a Stephen King. Paul gets to the point fast, drags you in and tears away rational thought - you can't predict how most of them will end, if you are lucky enough to guess correctly - there is still enough twist there to make it just off the beaten path and nothing you'd expect.

Keep up the wonderful writing Paul! I've procured a lovely leather binder to put your serials into as I print them out. Makes for lovely bedtime reading! :o) "

"What a beautiful story about Chester. And how much wisdom and insight you must have to recognise a lost soul when you saw him. Keep writing - you have a beautiful way with words. Take care and thank you for a beautiful story."

"I absolutely LOVED your story. It had me laughing, crying, and shaking my head. The words "Can we have him" whilst he was sitting in your car, on the way home already are truly priceless. It is exactly what I would have done. You are a brave, brave man .... :-) Thanks so much for sharing that story."

"This week we have another wonderfully weird tale from P.S. Gifford. There’s something vaguely Edgar Allen Poe-ish about Gifford’s writing style. There’s not a lot of science, not a lot of speculation, not a lot of other-worldliness. In fact, there’s usually not a lot of story, either, considering the relative shortness of his pieces. What there usually is, and "The House Call" is no exception, is a convincing monster of some sort. Other benchmarks of Gifford’s work include humor and hilarious dialogue. I thought you had a tabby down here! is one of the funniest semi-serious spec-fi dialogue lines I’ve ever read. "The House Call" blends just the right amount of humor into the piece to make the short length and relative lack of characterization irrelevant. Gifford can be grim and funny at the same time, like the very best of stories about things that growl in the shadows. A very fun and effective story which I would recommend for future anthologies."

"Ahhh, another short-short story. This one really more of a study in a single interesting vision of a man jumping at his own shadow. I can only re-iterate that I think this format of story has a distinct and interesting place, but Gifford seems to know how to do it particularly well. There are some ideas and visions (I’ve had a few of these myself) that are interesting enough to want to tell people about, but couldn’t necessarily carry their own weight in a short-fiction format. This was a quick and satisfying read that managed to be just complex enough to have the literary "meat" that we all look for in good fiction. Worth checking out, if only to appreciate the friendly simplicity of it. It read like a classroom writing exercise penned by a particularly apt student."

"An obscure and often-overlooked subgenre of SF is the short-short story. I have often felt a sort of Haiku-like affinity with this particular type of writing. I sometimes participate in writing exercises that are based on technical limitations that hone my narrative down to the very meat of what I'm trying to say. Writing a short-short is not only an excellent exercise, but (as Gifford effortlessly proves here) they can be quite enjoyable to read as well. They're like the sushi of the fiction world: quick, savory, and to the point. The succinct nature of a story under 500 words means that you literally can say nothing that has no meaning. You must kill off all the lovable side-tangents of the story and say only what needs to be said. Only the very best metaphor and simile survive, and they tend to be less grand and bloated and verbose. You end up with a Red Bull-like fiction experience where you get a sort of fiction-buzz, and just as you get a real thirst to guzzle it, it's gone. You're left with a quick and vivid impression of an idea, and a redefined impression of the real "space" of narrative. I'm not one of those people that feels like everything that needs to be said can be said in under 300 pages. I love epic-scale storytelling and I often wish good stories were longer, even if it just means another 50 pages of side story.

In any case, Gifford has created a very readable and clever story using very little iterative real estate. If I had one complaint, and I'm not sure I do, it would be that I needed to read a few sections of this story twice before I was satisfied with how they came out. In a story this short and compact, it seems as though grammar sometimes suffers, but after reading them over I was satisfied with how it read. It gets my recommendation for inclusion in the anthology as is, and I look forward to reading more from him."

"On a good note I recieved in today's mail a small litereature journal published in India today, which has published one of my shorts...I shall be definitely quoting his review of me...It is as follows..."P.S. Gifford writes beautiful short stories, studden with fantasy come realism..."

"P.S. Gifford(Paul) is an up and coming young author who is a master of suspense and horror stories. He paints his characters well and draws you into his story.. lulling you until the end comes like an unseen semi on the freeway. I find him a fasinating storyteller .. certainly not for the nervous..Anyone else can easily become a devoted fan ..."

"Hey-- I really didn't see that one coming! I'm a cynical reader so I'm usually looking for the twist ahead of time, so I was really pleased to be led into this one. Nice set up with the protag being horrible-- I would have even liked a line or two more about the witches at the end, maybe adding an 'I showed her' last bit. (hmmm, maybe not) Good job!"

"I have just found my story seen below has been published in KATHA KSHETRE - So did mine Robert! I feel honoured to be in print next to you! Did he send you a copy yet? Yes, it arrived today. I'm so proud I could bust. Congratulations on your publication. We share the same book, who knows where this could lead?"

"P.S. Gifford has a wonderful way of spinning tales of the normal everyday events of day to day life and then when your nice and comfortable....... simply pulls the rug out from under you! Delightfully twisted and wonderfully unexpected."

"Damn that competition!
I liked how you quickly and efficiently drew the scenario smoothly from start to finish and stuck the knife through our brains with the ending's unsuspecting twist.
Nicely done my good man..."