“We must believe!” The crowd was ecstatic. Five thousand of them stood before him, evolved, or devolved, into one terrific collective mass. Faces eclectic and varied as only humanity could be but morphed into uniformity by the moment, sweating, heaving and moving as one delirious whole. It was almost a […]
The room was perfect white. Not spacious or sparse, simply white, the detritus scattered around it’s interior sterile and blank in design but stiflingly busy in practice. Ingenious décor for a jail cell, the sole occupant thought to himself. The whiteness would deny rage, if he’d been willing to express […]
Yes you read right, everything must go! And by ‘everything’ I mean as many copies as possible from an endless, intangible pool of eBooks. Until the 24th of March you can download No Cure for Shell Shock for free via Amazon. As with all these promotions the small price I’ll […]
Death is a threat a punishment poised to tell life its place ensuring reverence and fearful respect for fine finality Bigger than myth bigger than beauty primacy set in omnipresent absence and conversation silenced by no voice and tender children, like all of us, recoil at oblique punishments cowed into […]
They made up a surgeon’s hand. Dissecting concrete housing blocks and perishing tarmac roads, slicing away incongruously overgrown marks of humanity to remove the infected tissue of life. A healing process, they said, the men and women who orchestrated the diggers, cranes and wrecking balls with balletic elegance. From their […]
Just a quick heads up to let you know what I’m working on for the coming six months/year. No Cure for Shell Shock only came out in December so there’s still work going on promoting that and, as always, any help you can offer is much appreciated. Amazon and Goodreads […]
Following up on Crashed America going ‘Pick Your Price’ this week it’s Space FM’s turn. You can grab your copy over here. As ever one of the prices you can pick is zero but I’ll re-post last weeks call for support below just to prod at your sense of human […]
Death had passed there before, elaborate in black ribbon and the sombre faced ritual of undertakers repeating a daily routine. The observers wept to see it. Tears framed by that moment, unlike the ones which had come before and those which followed after. Those were eroding tears, endlessly absorbed by […]
Imagine, if your stomach can take it, being with Donald Trump on one of his wedding nights. Imagine standing there nervously as the big man strips down, discarding even his gold lame y-fronts and socks. Imagine that moment of self doubt as you wonder whether it was worth the gain […]
You are right, there is no greater defeat than laying my emotive truth at your sanity’s feet, handing gut to head, heart to mechanical hands and giving all that I am to all that you know But there is no counter no liberating line to defend my madness against your […]