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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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Easter eggs, buns or eternal damnation – the choice is yours
Read more: Easter eggs, buns or eternal damnation – the choice is yoursThis week we’re getting into the gritty stuff. There’s decisions to be made and they need making now… RIGHT NOW… or the Easter rabbit will claw up your skirts and chew on your flesh with its stinking, foam-flecked teeth. And once the sweet, fluffy bunny is finished with you, then the chicks on your gran’s…
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Grind Spark Earworm #8 – UNKLE
Read more: Grind Spark Earworm #8 – UNKLELast week the Grind Spark earworm took us to the epic soundscapes of Sigur Ros – listen to it and get lost in mountains here. This week, well, this week it’s time for something completely different. It’s time for something that I didn’t even realise came from an advert before I searched YouTube for a…
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The horrors you feed me
Read more: The horrors you feed meLast week in the dust lounge, I asked you to wine and dine me with your horror suggestions. I wanted to stuff my face with the best horror films and books you could cook up. I wanted to gorge myself until the sweat poured from my eyebags and my stomach stretched around a stinking beast…
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Grind Spark Earworm #7 – Sigur Ros
Read more: Grind Spark Earworm #7 – Sigur RosLast week we took a break from the Grind Spark playlist to hear the sounds that whip your creative muse into action. Thought of some more? Then get yerself over there and add em in. But now we’re back, spiralling down into the dirty ribcage of the Grind Spark earworm. And this week it’s gone…
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Feed me horror, fiends
Read more: Feed me horror, fiendsSo, I finished a pretty darn big project last week. I mean finished it. I mean edited it right through to the end, and now, I think, most of the words are in nearly the right order. Or as much in the right order as they’re going to get for now. *Insert balloons, wine, general…
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Interval time at the Dust Lounge – what’s your earworm?
Read more: Interval time at the Dust Lounge – what’s your earworm?It’s interval time for the Grind Spark playlist this week. We’ve had six fine noise noodlers to tickle your phono-holes, and there will be more to come. But this week, the earworm tables are turning. This week the dog with the gramophone is handing over the crank stick. This week, I’m asking you – what’s…
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Grind Spark Earworm #6 – Boards of Canada
Read more: Grind Spark Earworm #6 – Boards of CanadaHow’s the Sunday roast going today? Chicken? Pork? Bean-based baked snack? Well there’s more Grind Spark earworm to help you through the over-cooked broccoli and the burnt potatoes. Last week we were up in the fields with Aphex Twin’s Avril 14th. Listen to it now or forever lose the secret ballerina within your soul. And…
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A moving experience
Read more: A moving experienceIt’s been a weird week. It’s been packing and unpacking and cleaning and recleaning. It’s been shouting with letting agents and smooching with them. I’ve been stressed as a nervous hamster wired on coffee. But I think I’m coming out the end of it now and thank fuck for that. They say that moving house…
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Grind Spark Earworm #5 – Aphex Twin
Read more: Grind Spark Earworm #5 – Aphex TwinIt’s that time again. Time for the Sunday roast and your weekly hit from the Grind Spark playlist. The next Grind Spark earworm. The EARWORM OF THE WEEK. Somehow, that sounds like something we should get checked out at the doctors. Anyway. Back to business. Last week, it was all about Radiohead, which I’m sure…
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A postcard from writing hell
Read more: A postcard from writing hellI am still in recovery. *Peeks out from beneath mountain of blankets* It’s taken me two weeks before I could even talk about it. *Stares at pile of screwed up paper barricading the door* Two weeks ago, I wrote a synopsis for Grind Spark. *Gnaws knuckles to the bone* Now, I’ve seen the warning signs.…