Final chapter now posted – have a look before I consign The Og to the store!!! The Og is Chief Gargoyle Model to the King, but he’s got a problem. However he contorts his face, he can’t produce an expression that is scarifying enough [...]
5 months ago
A true short about the infamous child killer, Mary Bell, who murdered two small boys in the Scotswood area of Newcastle, back in 1968. Mary was only ten or eleven herself; the two victims were three and four years old. This contains some very upsetting material. I'm leaving a link to the actual case which contains all [...]
2 days ago
I am embarking on a quest to be better than the rest at a truly respectable endeavor, to write the worst poem ever my poem will include [this horror a prelude] unnecessary rhymes that will abruptly stop. this poem will be rife with clichés liberally sprinkled like dandruff or anthrax I will act like no [...]
2 weeks ago
My name is Luca is the blog of a seventeen year old with a guilty secret. He hasn’t seen his father for eight years and his mother has just broken the law. L0nely and isolated, Luca trawls the intra-net, looking for friends. His first entry is dated 1.1.22. This is an entirely new venture [...]
7 months ago
What is it about gay marriage that frightens so many people? What is it about the thought of a woman marrying another woman and a man marrying another man that makes so many people so damn angry? Isn’t this a bit like the mixed marriages of a few decades ago? Is gay the [...]
5 weeks ago
Like water pouring into an empty bath to warm cold feet just as the early rising sun is glimpsed from hopeful shores and brittle, floury oats soften to a warm, sweetened cream in the pan so you gifted words to my ears, each one sparking the growing heat between us but as cloudy, tepid water [...]
3 days ago
CHAPTER 8 and Chapter 9 added 17th May 2012 – Explicit Adult Content – The hardest limits are the ones you set yourself… Finding herself divorced, approaching forty and ambivalent about much that life has so far offered, Sweetie finds herself drawn toward an alternative world, and the opportunity to give colour to [...]
6 weeks ago
A short story that morphed out of my other butcher related tale 'A Slice of Life'. This is very different to that one though-definatly no humour here. Althought there are 4 'chapters' it actually isn't very long, all feedback and comments appreciated and thanks for reading!
6 days ago
Since Clint Eastwood and Barack Obama waded into the controversy over same sex marriage this week, I thought I'd give you a pictish perspective…
6 days ago
….I Love You in Filipino…. (photo website: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/tagalog_mainpage.htm)
1 week ago
Here is the first paragraph of an old short story of mine (also included here in full) I invite you to write the next paragraph in the comments section below and I will add it. Then the next person writes the next paragraph and so on until, hopefully, we have a completed collaboratively written story. [...]
4 months ago
Name: David William Henry Age: 19 Marital Status: Single Children: Two Place of Employment: Various Occupation: Burglar Davey, is preferred name, was an orphan. His parents, whoever they were, had giving him away. He never really thought about them. They were to him a couple [...]
2 months ago
Being a reprint of Mr TRELAWNEY HART’s report on the ‘Beasant Mystery’ to Sir ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE, reputed author and member of the Institute of Psychical Research. London, December 1917
9 months ago
In these days of ‘sell by’ dates, salmonella scares and food hygienists the following tale is almost apocryphal. It comes from the memory of an elderly lady who was once ‘in service’ with a wealthy Edinburgh family and I hope it doesn’t put you off your food.
2 days ago
First prize winners of the Santander Universities Entrepreneurship Awards
