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Karl Drinkwater
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Lost Solace
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Chasing Solace
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Turner
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2011
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9 editions
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Cold Fusion 2000
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2012
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6 editions
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Harvest Festival
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They Move Below
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Karl Drinkwater's Horror Collection
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Helene
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2000 Tunes
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Hidden Solace
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Karl’s Author Newsletter
Welcome to ScotlandI haven’t done much writing recently. It’s been difficult to approach creative projects without Dolly’s supervision. Hence I’ve been distracting myself by doing DIY. Some of my window frames had rotten wood areas, so I’ve been working to restore and repaint them in the hopes that they survive another winter.
I’ve not even written many blog posts, just one about opposing AI da
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“Sad-looking brown eyes, they wrenched his heart like a gut punch. Worse – hell, worse – a bloke could punch him in the head but he’d stay up, and grin through the bloody split lip, intimidating his attacker; but there was no honour in wounds inside, wounds that only you could deal with.”
― Turner
― Turner
“We all have a black box inside us, and maybe one day another being vastly more powerful than we are will open it and understand it and judge us on it.”
― Lost Solace
― Lost Solace
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“When the rich give a party and the meal is finished, a man carries round amongst the guests a wooden image of a corpse in a coffin, carved and painted to look as much like the real thing as possible, and anything from 18 inches to 3 foot long; he shows it to each guest in turn, and says: "Look upon this body as you drink and enjoy yourself; for you will be just like it when you are dead."
[Herodotus ‘Histories’, II 82]”
― The Histories
[Herodotus ‘Histories’, II 82]”
― The Histories
“Sad-looking brown eyes, they wrenched his heart like a gut punch. Worse – hell, worse – a bloke could punch him in the head but he’d stay up, and grin through the bloody split lip, intimidating his attacker; but there was no honour in wounds inside, wounds that only you could deal with.”
― Turner
― Turner
“These rare mini mind-blanks always seemed to occur when he needed perking up, creative jolts as if his brain had temporarily overclocked its processor to light-speed frequency, but with the side effect of shutting his consciousness down to protect it from overheating. That theory certainly fit the observable phenomena.
Then again, the competing theories included: he was nuts; he had a brain tumour; aliens had temporarily abducted him.”
― Cold Fusion 2000
Then again, the competing theories included: he was nuts; he had a brain tumour; aliens had temporarily abducted him.”
― Cold Fusion 2000
“He wondered where his mind had wandered this time, what life it had lived as a trail of neurons sped through networks of possibilities particle-fast, too rapid to catch without a hadron collider, causing super quarks of weirdness and leaving him with only a vague after-image like a melting dream. He had to accept that he couldn’t catch all his thoughts, all the things going on in his body, the processes which slipped by in the background just leaving a shadow, an itch, the grain of sand that probably wouldn’t become a pearl, a blazing after-trace that lives a second then is gone forever. All those possibilities occurring in a second of frantic life: it never ceased to amaze him. The world was an incredible and beautifully constructed thing.
However, there wasn’t really time for a wank.”
― Cold Fusion 2000
However, there wasn’t really time for a wank.”
― Cold Fusion 2000
“Alex decided the stakes were high enough to justify one of his advanced psychological theories. He knew all women liked cats. People liked things that resembled themselves. Therefore applying some of the rules for interacting with cats to the reality of interacting with women could only help.
Most rules were straightforward:
• Admire their grace.
• Don’t interrupt them when they’re grooming.
• Back off if they hiss.”
― Cold Fusion 2000
Most rules were straightforward:
• Admire their grace.
• Don’t interrupt them when they’re grooming.
• Back off if they hiss.”
― Cold Fusion 2000
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