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Evolution and Intelligence

It would have to do. At least for now. But those blue seas and the green land bothered Him. He was sure He’d created one like this before. There was a world He’d created some time back, not that time made much sense to an immortal. He seemed to remember it was one with blue…

New on Wattpad: The Woman with the Golden Sex Spatula Chapter 2

[Read The Woman with the Golden Sex Spatula from the start]   Early the next morning, Maureen and Norbert were back at their CPED: UK local office in Little Frigging in the Wold, ready to compile their report on the incident in the Lower Crotchstaine woods for the Central Perversion Enforcement Directorate’s Head Office (CPED:…

How the Years Lost Our Secrets

Back then, there were secrets. I could see it in her eyes, that momentary hesitation before she spoke. Of course, we both lied, often to ourselves more than to each other. Somehow, though, that time passed, the lies faded, and those secrets were hidden away as we tried to forget them. Occasionally a memory, a…

The Evolution of the Supermarket Car Park

Sir Bastion Bargepole was – as many already know – the first explorer successfully to circumnavigate the Tesco car park in Bewdley, back in the early Victorian era. Of course, back in those days supermarkets had only just been discovered in the wild untamed jungles outside the Home Counties. As cars had yet to be…

Of All the Dimensions in All the Universes

They all said how they had never seen me so happy, which I suppose must mean I was once a very miserable bugger indeed. ‘When can we meet her?’ It was a question I grew tired of hearing. I developed an extensive repertoire of evasive, non-committal responses. Of course, the best one was eventually admitting…

First Draft Problems: No. 1. Ooh, My Eyes

First Draft Problems – When Typing Goes Wrong An explanation: This is the first in what will possibly be a regular series, considering my typing abilities. It will feature short extracts from the current WiP 1st draft, where my typing fingers and what passes for my mind have had different ideas about what I meant…

Between and Beyond Everything

It grew from nothing. The universe is emptier than we think. Everything that looks so solid is full of nothing, emptiness waiting to be filled. Out there, though, beyond what we like to see as reality, mysterious things were waiting. They were not even living, not even creatures… yet. But given enough space, they grew…

The Princess and the Kingdom

This time it would be different. Although, just how different that different would be, Melch wasn’t quite certain. All he knew was that the king should not be able to get away with it. Even if he was king… especially if he was king. After all, this was no longer the Century of Filing Cabinets,…

The Woman with the Golden Sex Spatula – Chapter One

Clutching their Perversion Proximity Sensors close to their palpitating chests, Norbert and Maureen Trouser-Quandary wormed their way through the entangling undergrowth. They made their way cautiously towards the very edge of the clearing near the heart of Lower Crotchstaine Woods. There they waited, both tense with trepidation, as the scene unfolded before their eyes. Of…

The Ancient Music of Stone Age Britain

Recent excavations around certain ancient Stone Age sites in the UK have uncovered what archaeologists believe is the first evidence of a Rolling Stones gig at Stonehenge. Of course, the fossil evidence – mostly based on carbon dating Keith Richards, the Mick Jagger fossil record and dendrochronological study of Ron Wood has long shown that…