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Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 3 “Ah-ha-ha-ha-haaaa!!!” cackled the Japester, bursting into the bank with an inexplicable fart noise and a cloud of evil purple smoke. There was an awkward silence. The bank teller looked around. “Are you going to tell me to give you money and everyone to get on the ground, or…” The […]

Ashurbanipal

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 2 Challenge #1: Write a drabble centred on a colour of your choice. Optionally, it must be your least favourite colour. The warlord dropped a table before the scribe, amber inlay gleaming in the orange light. “Let it be known that I burned the library.” The scribe began to mark […]

Count Me Out

Flash Fiction Month 2024, Day 1 The vampire cackled as it stalked down the alleyway, but Jenny had a trick up her sleeve. “Have fun counting seeds!” she yelled, hurling a handful at the cloaked figure. He paused to peer down at the wispy grass seeds clinging to his waistcoat. “One, two, three…” He brushed […]

You are invited to the Oh God This Is My Life Now book launch and open mic!

What’s that, you ask? Why am I just now running a launch for a collection of stories that’s been available in some form or another since July last year? Well, it’s because next month I’ll be writing a very similar collection of stories and I figure this event will work better as a lead-in to […]

Oh God This Is My Life Now Paperback Now Available

It’s been a long time coming – partly because Amazon initially shuffled my book together with someone else’s like Jeff Golblum and that random housefly – but the paperback of my 2023 Flash Fiction Month anthology Oh God This Is My Life Now is finally available for purchase! You can find it at Amazon UK and […]

April Fools in a Post-Truth World

April 1st is my favourite day of the year. That’s not a joke. I’ve done something or other for April Fools’ Day every year for the past decade or so, and some of these things took weeks of work (or at least planning). Here’s a little list (with portions of the descriptions encoded in ROT13 […]

Super Hyper Awesome Game: EXTREME! – Final Scores

The results of my Super Hyper Awesome Game: EXTREME! competition are in! Also, FYI, this was my April Fools joke this year (though I suspect some might have guessed).

Super Hyper Awesome Game: EXTREME!

I have a new game to share with you! It's Super Hyper Awesome Game: EXTREME! and it's just as great as it sounds. Also - for today only - I'm offering a copy of Hollow Knight to whoever gets the top score.

DRM-Free 2023 Writeup

Near (though not quite at) the start of 2023, I decided to avoid paying for anything with DRM on it for the entire year. If you don’t know what that means then that post will offer a detailed explanation, but if you just want the short version, DRM (Digital Rights Management) is any tool that […]

I HAVE THE BANANAAAAAAAA!!!

Okay. So, a while back I announced that I had an entry in this year’s Interactive Fiction Competition: Who Iced Mayor McFreeze? Remember that? Remember the noir murder mystery in which everyone is candy? The follow-up to 2022’s Who Shot Gum E. Bear? That was a decoy. Or rather, that was a sincere IFComp entry […]