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A night like none.

Note: this is neither a short story nor a poem, it is a combination of both. I call it a conglomerate*. (not sure if there is an actual name for this sort of writing, if not then I invented a new style; I suppose)

He left the room a hallowed soul, dignified by the evil within him. Some say evil is not sacred, but I say judge not yet ye be judged. Surrounded by greed and satisfaction, he lurched over the unwilling townsmen, caressing the long and tattered crimson-black hair that cascaded from t...

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Man Hunt, Moon Men and Mania

“Manhunt and Moon Men”

The summer I saw aliens was spent, in part, groping for words to explain the language of idle bike chains cruising down Heather Hill passed unknown new neighbors watering old gardens, planted forever ago, like 1988. That summer was a lot of groping.

Middle of August, on tour with the natives, a fox-faced kid called Little Mark.
“That’s the Valdez pit—bunch of Spics…the grandparents live with them, and all the sisters—one kid is the other kid’s uncle even though he’s youn...

"The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste..."

“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

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Ernest Hemingway (via 4rticles)

Don’t usually go in for writing advise per say but this is certainly some of the best. Live. And its appropriate f...

The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa and a Halloween Competition.

I wrote both my novels, Lilith’s Tears and then The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa with the idea of a “gothic fairy tale” in mind and I think it worked out - reviewers did pick up on the gothic nature of the stories. With Halloween getting closer (I will be in a live action ghost play/ghost walk kind of thing and all made up to look creepier than I normally do) I have been thinking of which novel especially has the Halloween vibe, and I think it’s the Travelling Circus...

The Tale of the Three Brothers.

The Tale of the Three Brothers.

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"At first, I found that today is nothing but a contrived impression of yesterday. Summer, and all its..."

“At first, I found that today is nothing but a contrived impression of yesterday. Summer, and all its lazy thoughts, its scents, its natural scenes, slid identically into earthy Autumn, which offered its hand of wood smoke, of low, shimmering vapours, fallen leaves and a golden sun relieved of daily guard by the gentle, copper moon. More than once, I had heard all of life likened to a vast stage of exits no less dramatic than arrivals.”

- The Mirror of a Million Fragments in The Miller and the...

Wouldn’t be a week on my blog without a cat picture.

Wouldn’t be a week on my blog without a cat picture.

adamsnaughtynaomi:Always wanted to do this.

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Always wanted to do this.