Jane Jago's Blog, page 38
November 16, 2024
Dying to be Roman XIX
Dying to be Roman by Jane Jago and E.M. Swift-Hook is a whodunit set in an alternative modern day Britain where the Roman Empire still rules.
It was more than half an hour before she returned to the Tribune’s study, where she found the two men playing a complicated board game, which, by Decimus’ face, Dai was winning.
“Thank goodness you are back, puella. Before I got my arse whipped by a sheep-shagging provincial. What did our master say?”
“Before or after he stopped swearing?”
“After.”
“Well. F...
November 15, 2024
Granny’s A-Z – F is for Fat Shaming
Things that make us go poop…
Granny and the ‘ladies’ darts team of The Dog and Trumpet alphabetically collate their collective contempt for the inhabitants of the twenty-first century.
F is for: Fat Shaming
Why are some people only happy when they are disrespecting others? How is it okay to look at someone’s picture on antisocial media and pronounce them overweight?
It’s a symptom of a serious societal failing.
How has it gained such a toehold?
The collective theory of three e...
November 14, 2024
100 Acre Wood Revisited – Pig Rap
Things are not quite how you might remember them in the 100 Acre Wood for Christopher Robin, Pooh Bear and their friends…
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November 13, 2024
Ian Bristow Inspires – The Deep
Writing inspired by the art of Ian Bristow
The Pain,
Lightless, black as night
It Burns,
Salt water scores your skin
Red Eyes,
Have pity not, nor sight
They Stare,
Yet understand your sin
Your Prayer,
For sight of that far home
Too Far,
Too lost beneath the deep
Your Wish,
To be no more alone
His Answer,
The last and final sleep
Ian is an awesome artist and cover designer, you can find his work at Bristow Design.
November 12, 2024
Drabblings – Déjà vu
Telling an entire story in just one hundred words…
It happened again.
It had happened once already. She was sure. Just as she took the key from her pocket, the door opened by itself.
Or had that been in a dream?
An oddly familiar tension gripped her stomach as she hesitated on the threshold.
Burglars? Poltergeists? Had she forgotten to shut the door when going out?
It was like rethinking the thoughts, standing in a reflection of herself, watching an event that had already happ...
November 11, 2024
Jacintha Farquhar Advises on Not Writing Too Many Heads
Jacintha Farquhar, maternal parent of Moonbeam Farquhar Metheringham IV offers important life lessons to those who like to think they’ve got what it takes to write a damn book…
es, it is me. Jacintha. Struggling to be sober enough to write something sufficiently significant to be worthy of putting out in public, which is more than many of you lot try to do.
I have been making a point of reading you ‘indie’ authors a bit over the last few weeks and I have to say there are some really stunning b...
November 10, 2024
November
It’s November now
Chilly rain and fog
Wind shakes the house
Like a wet smelly dog
It’s November now
Nights are growing long
But leaves still hang on bony trees
Like forgotten notes of a song
November 9, 2024
Dying to be Roman XVIII
Dying to be Roman by Jane Jago and E.M. Swift-Hook is a whodunit set in an alternative modern day Britain where the Roman Empire still rules.
As she wavered on the edge of tears there came a polite tap on the door. Boudicca stepped away from Decimus as he straightened his spine.
“Come.”
The Praetorian who came into the room looked about as shocked as it is possible for a properly hard man to be.
“Report, man.”
“Sorry dominus. Marcella Tullia Junius. We went to her apartment. There was nobody ther...
November 8, 2024
Granny’s A-Z – E is for Educational Snobbery
Things that make us go poop…
Granny and the ‘ladies’ darts team of The Dog and Trumpet alphabetically collate their collective contempt for the inhabitants of the twenty-first century.
E is for: Educational Snobbery (subtitled Not Everybody Needs an Effing Degree)
What is the ever-****ing matter with society? If a person wants to be a carpenter (or a plumber, or a mechanic, or whatever) that doesn’t make them any less of a human being than someone who has ambitions towards more academic...
November 7, 2024
100 Acre Wood Revisited – Yore Rap
Things are not quite how you might remember them in the 100 Acre Wood for Christopher Robin, Pooh Bear and their friends…
***** ***** *****
