Month: October 2017
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Monday
Monday didn’t like Tuesday. She wasn’t all that keen on Thursday either for that matter. Friday was heinous, and Saturday and Sunday could just fuck off. That’s why she’d built the machine. Because Wednesday was just about the only day worth experiencing. She knew a lot of people didn’t like Wednesdays, what with it being…
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A Great Storm
It’s the thirtieth anniversary of The Great Storm today. It puts me in mind of a time I was in a storm. Not the Great one. Just a storm. I was living in Plymouth at the time, and I’d been visiting friends across town. The wind had been picking up for a few hours, and…
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The Opening Of My Next Novel
At the risk of showing off my underwear, here’s the first two hundred words of my next book. It was time to die. She hadn’t had an idea in the longest while, and so it was time to die. Plus, the clock had stopped. It used to tick, she knew that. And she knew it…
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What’s The Opposite Of Lego?
Time for the latest episode of the silly podcast setisoppO, where we work out what’s the opposite of something that doesn’t have a natural opposite. This week, we tackle cheesecake, jumpers, and Lego. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo057.mp3 We’ve talked about Tom Good’s sweaters on this blog before, and how much I love and covet them. And here’s…
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James Horner’s Aliens Score
Another strange parallel here, what with James Horner following up Jerry Goldsmith on another sequel, like he had done on Star Trek. This time, he shares his experiences working on Aliens. https://youtu.be/gzati0Am5GE
