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(Meme attack)
This sounds fun:)
Give me the title of a story I’ve never written, and feedback telling me what you liked best about it, and I will tell you any of: the first sentence, the last sentence, the thing that made me want to write it, the biggest problem I had while writing it, why it almost never got submitted to magazines, the scene that hit the cutting ( Read more... ) -
Carrying the Idiot Ball
I’m pathologically liberal, despite an upbringing in one of the last pockets of the 1950s left on the planet. The Isle of Man is a tiny community halfway between England and Ireland and, by dint of its presence in the centre of a pretty hostile environment, it’s very conservative. Gay rights were a huge issue when I was growing up there, to ( Read more... ) -
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I notice the health care debate has become, well, a bit of a health care tornado, or healthnado. For what it's worth, my two pennies ( Read more... ) -
Twitter Fiction
For such a thing exists! Indeed it does! And look, I've done some! And I forgot a couple of them! And like them!
Twitter fiction by me
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Phone Whingery
Oh O2 ( Read more... ) -
There are some things you can only do in the 21st Century
I've just caught the back end of the Apollo 11 twitter feed, recreating the minute by minute events of the flight as it came up on the 1021 warning, on the warning that they were low on fuel, on the bad radar data and finally on three words:
Eagle lunar landing.
I have done this, whilst listening to 'Welcome to Lunar Industries' part of Clint Mansell ( Read more... ) -
140 Characters of Total Free
Here you go:
His trilby made a hole in the rain. His long coat made him a shadow.
His leadshot gloves made him a weapon. His city took care of the rest. -
Just whinging to myself, all behind a cut and everything, move along
There are honestly very few things I hate more in the world right now than the 'Positive Thinking' advert for the Passat.
( So, this year is all about )
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