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‘Everything is Fine’ in Ellipsis Zine
Read more: ‘Everything is Fine’ in Ellipsis ZineEllipsis Zine is back, and it’s so good to see this wonderful literary magazine back after closing in 2024. Ellipsis Zine has always been a brilliant home for flash fiction, and so I’m hugely pleased that they’ve given some space for my small, strange piece ‘Everything is Fine’.
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5 dystopian fictions to brighten up your day
Read more: 5 dystopian fictions to brighten up your dayTrump in charge of America. Brexit. Boris Johnson looking after the UK’s foreign affairs. A ‘loose woman’ won Celebrity Big Brother. You’d be forgiven for thinking we don’t need any dystopian fictions to liven up our day to day wanderings – after watching the news perhaps we’re all bleaked out. But perhaps that’s exactly why…
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On reading: Metropolitan Dreams by Mark A King
Read more: On reading: Metropolitan Dreams by Mark A KingTitle: Mark A King Author: Metropolitan Dreams From the back: This is a tale of two cities. Darkness and light. Sinners and angels.
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Happy Valentine’s Day
Read more: Happy Valentine’s DayHappy Valentine’s Day and all the joys it may or may not bring. Today is mostly a day of vomit inducing romantified couples paying for overpriced meals and polluting my social media feeds with over-eager double-selfies and #blessed hashtags.
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On reading: The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Read more: On reading: The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason ArnoppTitle: The Last Days of Jack Sparks Author: Jason Arnopp From the back: It was no secret that journalist Jack Sparks had been researching the occult for his new book. No stranger to controversy, he’d already triggered a furious Twitter storm by mocking an exorcism he witnessed.
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Belated best reads of 2016
Read more: Belated best reads of 2016Belated posts and a quieter than intended Dust Lounge in part due to excitement over kittens, then tears over the sad loss of one of them. I won’t be dwelling on it here. Suffice to say there was much unexpected sadness over the festive season, and little Mole will be missed. Thankfully Diesel is doing…
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Kittentroducing…
Read more: Kittentroducing…Hah – do you see what I did there? KITTENtroducing? What? That doesn’t really work? Well I don’t care and I have kittens on the brain so let’s just pretend that was one of the best word plays in the whole goddamn world and move on.
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On reading: The Sheriff by Simon Fairbanks
Read more: On reading: The Sheriff by Simon FairbanksTitle: The Sheriff Author: Simon Fairbanks From the back: The Sheriffs wander the clouds to keep peace across Nephos. Sheriff Denebola is recruited by young Toby to help rid his village of a winged demon. The demon has tormented the people of Angel’s Keep every night for the past week so Denebola vows to capture…
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On reading: The Garden by James Kester
Read more: On reading: The Garden by James KesterTitle: The Garden Author: James Kester From the back: Throughout human history, the peddlers of certainty have reigned supreme. When Galileo first cast doubt about the place of the Earth within the cosmos, he was condemned . . . Either you believed that God’s Eden was the garden of all life, or you were a…
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On reading: Slade House by David Mitchell
Read more: On reading: Slade House by David MitchellTitle: Slade House Author: David Mitchell From the back: Born out of the short story David Mitchell published on Twitter in 2014 and inhabiting the same universe as his latest bestselling novel The Bone Clocks, this is the perfect book to curl up with on a dark and stormy night.