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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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Happy Halloween
Read more: Happy HalloweenYes, Happy Halloween fiends! Or, for you die hard pedantics, if you’re not happy to call it Halloween, let’s go with Dia de los Muertos. Either way, I hope the scares are enjoyable and the spooks are well behaved, and that the punch is full of an appropriate amount of spirits. Enjoy the horrors –…
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5 tips for surviving Halloween
Read more: 5 tips for surviving HalloweenWhat’s that? You mean, you don’t want to be scared to the point of your hair falling out and your eyes turning to ice? You mean you’d rather think about what presents to get little Bobby for Christmas? You mean you’d rather drink sherry for breakfast and try out your new recipe for how to…
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Halloween is coming…
Read more: Halloween is coming…Oh yes it is, with its claws and teeth and shifty eyes. With its heart-warming soups and hollowed out pumpkins. With its children that knock on your door and blackmail you into giving them a nasty case of tooth rot. And by far and away it’s the best time of year – the nights draw…
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Feed me the green stuff
Read more: Feed me the green stuffWell, I can’t say this hasn’t happened before… but I feel like I’m about to start dabbling in vegetarianism again. I’ve tried veganism before, for the best part of a week – but I know I’m setting myself up for a fail if I go the full way and ban cheese from my life (cheese…
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Finally, sitting under a new roof
Read more: Finally, sitting under a new roofOr, well, an old roof, it being a somewhat old house. You might remember me talking about moving a few months ago. Well, due to flat and agent failures that move never happened. But now it has, just to a different house this time. I’ve repacked and re-unpacked and now I’ve fought with flatpack*, roughly…
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New free wordage
Read more: New free wordageLast week I got the proper great news that 365 Tomorrows featured one of my stories. It’s a little story, maybe a 60 second read. But it’s one I’ve been fond of for a while, and it’s always good to see lonely words go to a nice home. Read the story at 365 Tomorrows here,…
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Grind Spark – the complete earworm sessions
Read more: Grind Spark – the complete earworm sessionsIt’s time to close the book on Grind Spark. Not completely, there’s still tweaks and edits afoot. But times are a-changing and new WIPs (Work in Progress, Walrus in Pants, Wet Insidious Pulses… whatever takes your fancy) with whole new earworms are calling. So it’s time to wrap up the Grind Spark playlist. I present…
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This heinous hiatus is nearly over…
Read more: This heinous hiatus is nearly over…Ok. You got me. I put my hands up. There has been an overly long break between blog posts and this is something that should not be allowed to pass. *Shelters behind the Beast against volleys of rotten fruit* Suffice to say, general life, work and an impending house move (got a good feeling that…
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What happens when the football’s on (in which I visit a writing forum)
Read more: What happens when the football’s on (in which I visit a writing forum)THE FOOTBALL’S ON, THE FOOTBALL’S ON. Get your flags at the ready and get the beer flowing, it’s time to watch them people on that grass court kick a bag of wind about and shout at each other and roll about on the floor when they trip over a daisy. Or, alternatively, let’s visit a…
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Before beer it was time for the dentist
Read more: Before beer it was time for the dentistThe sun was shining and the air was alive with the sounds of commuters ripping off their ties and descending on bars. Everyone was in a party mood. And I was in the dentist. On Friday 13th. Fourteen years since the last time I went, I was leaning back in a chair with bright lights…