Noodles while you’re sleeping at Daily Science Fiction

January 8, 2021January 6, 2021 Categories: Thoughts · WritingTags: daily science fiction · flash fiction · Noodles while you're sleeping · publication · science fiction · short stories · writingLeave a comment

My flash fiction piece Noodles while you’re sleeping has been published over at Daily Science Fiction

Happy New Year, looking back and looking forwards

January 2, 2021 Categories: ThoughtsTags: goals · happy new year · new years resolutions · reading goals · writing goals2 Comments

Happy New Year – a brief look back and a brief look forwards

2020 – reading roundup and the Dust Lounge Book Awards

December 30, 2020December 20, 2020 Categories: Book Reviews · Books · ThoughtsTags: A man of shadows · Agustina Bazterrica · best books of 2020 · best books of the year · best reads of 2020 · Blacktop Wasteland · Chris Panatier · Chuck Palahniuk · Chuck Wendig · Consider This · Donald Ray Pollock · Earthlings · favourite books of the year · Grady Hendrix · Headcheese · jeff noon · Jess Hagemann · Juniper · My Best Friend’s Exorcism · Ross Jeffery · S.A. Cosby · Sayaka Murata · Stephen Graham Jones · tender is the flesh · The Devil All the Time · the memory police · the only good indians · The Phlebotomist · Wanderers · Yōko Ogawa1 Comment

Welcome to the 2020 reading roundup and book awards at the Dust Lounge. A mighty fine year for reading.

Season’s greetings

December 24, 2020December 23, 2020 Categories: ThoughtsTags: happy christmas · happy holidays · season's greetingsLeave a comment

Season’s greeting from the Dust Lounge and associated cats.

Chicken Bones at The Molotov Cocktail

December 4, 2020December 3, 2020 Categories: Thoughts · WritingTags: #vss365 · book review · chicken bones · flash fiction · publication · short story · Stephanie Ellis · The Five Turns of the Wheel · the molotov cocktail · vss365 · writing newsLeave a comment

My flash fiction piece Chicken Bones has been published over at the wickedly cool The Molotov Cocktail.

Spooky season and magic food robots

September 22, 2020September 19, 2020 Categories: ThoughtsTags: autumn · chilli · mexican gothic · recipe · slow cooker vegetarian chilli recipe · spooky season · the exorcist · the haunting of hill house · the shining · vegetarian chilliLeave a comment

Autumn is the best time of year – time for blankets, spooky stories and hot chilli straight from the slow cooker

Breakfast with Bobby at the Arcanist

August 23, 2020 Categories: Thoughts · WritingTags: breakfast with bobby · flash fiction · horror flash fiction · horror story · publication · short story · the arcanist2 Comments

My horror flash fiction Breakfast with Bobby has been published over at the brilliant The Arcanist

Never too old for teddy bears (with teeth)

July 22, 2020 Categories: ThoughtsTags: birthday · fuggler · getting older · teddy bear · teethLeave a comment

On getting another year older.

Some writerly news, in the midst of everything

June 6, 2020 Categories: Thoughts · WritingTags: Cabinet of Heed · flash fiction · Flash Flood · HTTP Error · National Flash Fiction Day 2020 · NFFD2020 · publicationLeave a comment

A small piece of writerly news; “Walls” has been published in The Cabinet of Heed’s Stream of Consciousness special issue