“How can you grapple with what consumes you?” She asks, her face creasing in bemusement. I had said the phrase with such pride, deep resonance and high…
Ermintrude was her name - she did not know why her parents had inflicted this upon her. But still she struggled gamely on, through every school register…
I am in a room with several others - it might be 7, it might be 9, I’m not sure and I can’t be bothered to count. It’s definitely not an even number - I…

January 2023

Doodling is always fun - sometimes useful, often not. But utility is unimportant, for there exists no moment that is not enhanced by the taking out of a…

December 2022

Christmas Day is arrogant and lazy. Christmas Day is arrogant and lazy - all the preceding days do the actual graft. It will be mid-December for me…
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How to describe a place to someone who has never been there, how to set the scene. Because it is vital that they feel as I felt when I was up through…

November 2022

I am driving a car - I don’t know how. I can barely open a door or hold a steering wheel, let alone sit and talk and arch my back with the confidence…
I was startled to discover that the number 1 bus actually exists. Buses should have numbers such as 83, 176, 214 or maybe 47 if you’re being generous…
“Only write when you’re hungover,” Dolores tell me when I’m hungover one morning. Alright, I think, and set about it. I am adventurous in my…

October 2022

“How big a cake will you have on your wedding day?” Dolores asked me in a dream one night.

September 2022

The blinking cursor blights the writer. Dickens Bronte Wordsworth Shelley or any others you might care to name in our tongue could finish and know it…
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Finishing up some new stories - popping this up in the meantime as I read it aloud a couple of weeks ago.