• Wings of Wax and Gold

    Wings of Wax and Gold

    To make up for the blogging fail at the end of last week (work just destroyed me), I wrote some fresh flash fiction. Hope folk enjoy. My father makes me wings of wax and gold.  He scavenges goose feathers from the courtyard below. The guards...

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  • Hypothetical movies

    Hypothetical movies

    I love movie trailers.  Love them to bits.  Occasionally, of an evening, rather than sit down and watch a proper show, I will just sit down and watch an hour of movie trailers.  It’s brilliant. This has not always been the case.  When I was...

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  • The Dilemma of Choice

    The Dilemma of Choice

    I was a psychology major at university.  Which did not really improve my chances of being employed, but which did (along with providing me with a healthy hatred of Freud and psychoanalysis) give me an surfeit of information regarding to the taxonomy of choices. I...

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  • Back in the day…

    Back in the day…

    I’ve been thinking about nostalgia a lot this week, ever since watching Dazed and Confused, I guess.  (Also I am alpha reading a novel, which is insanely good, but I probably should mention no more on that…)  But, pondering over simpler times, when decisions carried...

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  • Short story month

    Short story month

    I saw somewhere on the web that May is short story month.  So I thought, oh that would be a good opportunity to share some stuff.  And then I wandered into the bibliography section of this site and discovered a wilderness of horrors.  It’s like...

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  • The hero dies in this one

    The hero dies in this one

    The other day I said something in passing, which I intended mostly as just a rhetorical turn of phrase, but which I have been thinking about more and more.  Specifically, I said that money makes the world go round, but love makes people go round. ...

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