14/4/21 Many people are denying that there is a purge happening at the moment by big tech. Amazon, Smashwords, Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter are all deleting content they don’t like, content that doesn’t fit with the narrative. Mention election fraud, vaccines, lockdowns, covid etc and you could find your content vanished. I myself have been […]
Continue readingSappho Translations
Sappho’s Moon and Pleiades Original Greek poem: Δέδυκε μεν ἀ σελάννα καὶ Πληΐαδεσ, μέσαι δὲ νύκτεσ πάρα δ᾽ ἔρχετ᾽ ὤρα, ἔγω δὲ μόνα κατεύδω Google translate: Dedyke although a selanna And Pliiades, through Dec nyktes too d erchet hour, I do not own katefdo Corrected with Word spelling suggestions: Eddie although a sultana And Pleiades, […]
Continue readingThe Good House
Genre: Fantasy / Science Fiction – 2019edit. Originally written: 2015 PART 1 Alison loaded a shell into the breech of the tank’s gun and Claire gave her the thumbs up from the commander’s position. Claire looked outside where the tank was stationary in a wide wooded gulley; not the best landscape for the […]
Continue readingCaffeinated in Woolwich
Written in 2017 for my degree. This non-fiction is a response to the non-fiction piece “Lights Out For the Territory” by Iain Sinclair where he follows the same route in the 1980’s We sit in deep faux leather sofas at the new Coffee Lounge in Woolwich, with a large cappuccino each on the wooden […]
Continue readingThe Gimp
A story written in 2017. Has a slightly naughty BDSM element to it! If you think 50 Shades is about BDSM then don’t bother reading this story. John was making coffee when the gimp suit arrived. It had been a normal day until then. The kids had gone off to school, as usual, followed by […]
Continue readingThe train rattled
This is the second oldest poem I still have, I think, or Dry Golden is the second oldest, really not sure. However, it’s one of the oldest if not the oldest. The event on the train happened in 1995. I worked in London at the time and hated it. Going home was such joy. I […]
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This was written in 2018 for my BA in Creative Writing. My first ever go at fantasy. It was inspired by Philip Pullman when I listened to his Radio4 programme about writing. He said he started at the beginning and the story came into place place as if my magic. That was exactly what happened […]
Continue readingStage 2030 Covid
Written at the start of 2021 for my masters degree. Science fiction! “It’s quite simple,” said Karen. “I’m going to be terminated.” “But you’re still of use to society, surely?” replied Simon. “I don’t know, since they changed the rules again, and they found things in my past.” Simon nodded. He knew the rules had […]
Continue readingDeparture Gate
Written 2017. Most people don’t understand what this is about. If you have no attention span or analytical mind then you won’t… the clues are all there. It was inspired by Hemingway’s “Hill’s Like White Elephants”. I have written no more or less than is needed to say what the story is about. It was […]
Continue readinglet there be cake
This was written in 2019. I happen to live in an old church surrounded by a graveyard. Didn’t take much imagination! the sun is falling below the gravestone, he made 83 when I was two i expect the sun is falling everywhere and none of it means a thing stones words lives deaths and tax […]
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