Huckleberry Hax's Blog, page 18
December 28, 2019
My top ten SL photos (by me) of 2019
It’s time to recycle content again. 2019 has been fairly photography-light for me, with most of my time this year being taken up filming Stömol. That’s not to say I haven’t snapped the occasional pic every now and again, however, and some of them even got a few likes over on Flickr. Here, then, are […]
December 22, 2019
Season’s greetings 2019
He landed his sleigh in the car park of Big Data UK HQ and trudged with his sack across freshly laid snow and into the foyer, all gleaming and new, where a beautiful tree was covered in stars that blinked on and off in corporate white and onto a wall christmas wishes were beamed in […]
September 29, 2019
Announcing Stömol
Things have been a bit quiet on this blog (and on my Flickr stream) recently. You noticed, right? Of course you did. Well, for the last eight months I’ve been working on a pretty large machinima project, a full-blown science fiction movie called Stömol – all filmed in Second Life. It’ll be about an hour […]
July 21, 2019
Where avatars die
This is the place where avatars die. A white-edged limbo, lost in the sky, where the empties slump in suspended goodbye, discarded containers of life, now passed by. This is the place where avatars die, husks still and lifeless, stuck in standby. Arms which once hugged unfolded now lie. Eyes which once wept locked open […]
June 28, 2019
The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries (2019) by Huckleberry Hax
ALL 10 PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AVATAR DINING CLUB STORIES PLUS TWO NEW TALES EXCLUSIVE TO THIS COLLECTION. How was Raw Concrete identified in a secret account? How did a cheating partner’s wife manage to get snapshots of his misdemeanour? How was Bill Reckinsaw able to appear in two places at exactly the same time? These and […]
June 25, 2019
Book launch party: The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries
On Friday 28 June I’ll be launching my new book, “The Avatar Dining Club Mysteries” at the rooftop pool of The Nancy Redgrave Building. The collection includes all ten previously published stories about my little group of virtual world mystery solvers plus two new and previously unpublished tales. I’ve also written an afterword for each […]
June 24, 2019
The Apostrophian
A new Avatar Dining Club mystery for you to read. If you’re a fan of this series, look at for a special announcement at the end of the story! “The greatest abuse that goes on in the virtual world is that of our own language!” Although the voice came from the small speakers of the […]
June 15, 2019
Texture
I started to type something funny, but then I saw that she was typing something. So I stopped to wait for her comment. And then she stopped too. I waited a few seconds. Nothing happened. So I resumed my typing. And so did she. So I stopped again and waited some more. It was partly […]
May 20, 2019
Behind the counter
hair clips hair brushes toothbrushes toothpicks lipstick bleach a tray of bottles of nail polish bottles of correction fluid plastic alarm clocks ballpoint pens balls of string brightly coloured pegs double A batteries, sold individually incandescent light bulbs torches condoms sachets of instant coffee jars of mustard tinned meat lemon juice jam flour toilet paper […]
May 12, 2019
Viral
Click. One thought breaks free, seeking minds, to be absorbed; a stray neutron, fat and heavy: it penetrates; it infuriates; it swells its target. Click click. It both angers and reassures. It is a message about life: sub-atomic; a grain of rice; an itch and also a scratch. It begs its target’s agreement. It damns […]
