I believe in Thylacines

admin, 03/03/2011

If you’ve read my work you might find a certain drift towards Thylacines. Not that I’m obsessed with them or anything, but they are in more than a few of my short stories and poems and even feature heavily in an X-Files fanfic I wrote more than a decade ago. I’m tempted to have them [...]


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love, again, in the time of the daffodils

admin, 08/09/2010

My life wouldn’t make a good story. I’ve always maintained that the only good reason I would have for writing an autobiography would be an offer from a company that deals with people who have an insomnia problem. Aside from being boring, my life is unstructured. There’s no rhythm to the small dramas that I [...]


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Every feather in place for the chicken show – or – judging stories and how to not send an entry to a literary competition

admin, 10/08/2010

There were times during the judging when I really wished that I could talk to the people who’d sent those stories, though, and it wasn’t always to tell them how much I loved their stories. To this end, there are a few things I’d like to say to anyone who is thinking of submitting a story to a competition and who is maybe feeling a little worried about what to send in, or a little miffed because they’ve sent in lots of stories and never won.


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