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C.S. Hughes

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C S Hughes is an Australian poet who often reflects a fractured experience and dispossessed heritage in poetry and writing that runs the gamut from conventional lyrical metres and forms, to linear experiments, found text collage, kinetic and object poetry, essays, creative non-fiction and short stories, as well as combining text and manipulated digital image in superimposition.
He is the author of several volumes of poetry, including, The Little Book Of Funerals, COVID-22, and The Book Of Whimsies, amongst others. He has had stories and poems published in both digital and print magazines.
His most recent releases, a poetry collection, Sound Never Dies, a short story collection, The Book Of Fables, and a dark horror antholgy, Broke Down House, ...more

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	The Book of Whimsies 4.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book Of Fables: Reveries, Myths & Wanderings it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	something blue it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Upon a Time a Tower Rose: A Fable it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fracture Wolf it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	COVID-22 it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Book Of Bird & Bear 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Catch The Cheese!: A Flick The Pages Quick! Book it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	the art of knitting needle ikebana it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cars Crashed In Charcoal Cities it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2015	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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C.S. Hughes's Blog: Not Crying Over Spilled Ink - An Occasional Author Blog

I did say infrequent. The horror, the horror.

Broke Down House My latest is a revamped print edition of a horror ebook anthology I released and withdrew many years ago. The new edition of Broke Down House has some additional, recent stories, and the dark turned poetry excised.
Fairly remarkably it achieved the no. 1 horror anthology spot on Amazon over two days when I ran a free promotion. Some mixed reviews and ratings are starting to come in Read more of this blog post »

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The Book Of Fables

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Jan Miklaszewicz’ Eyes Wide Open feels a little like a screenplay that someone quickly turned into a novel; a cross between The Young Ones, Midsomer Murders and Evil Dead. It gives a sort of lightweight, frivolous immediacy to the action, all very to ...more
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I’m perfectly willing to work through non-standard language in a novel, amongst others I’ve read Anthony Burgess’s ‘A Clockwork Orange’ and Brian W Aldiss’s ‘Barefoot In The Head’ and revelled in the very different language employed in both. The one ...more
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“If I can't dance to it, it's not my revolution.”
― Emma Goldman

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“It is sometimes an appropriate response to reality to go insane.”
― Philip K. Dick, VALIS

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“You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required to violate your own identity. At some time, every creature which lives must do so. It is the ultimate shadow, the defeat of creation; this is the curse at work, the curse that feeds on all life. Everywhere in the universe.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

tags: identity, life, science

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“No single thing abides; and all things are fucked up.”
― Philip K. Dick, The Transmigration of Timothy Archer

tags: fucked-up, humor, postmodern

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“There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'.”
― Philip K. Dick

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