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Blog postMy boy @coturnixsolis alerted me to the existence of Long-term nuclear waste warning messages, which are intended to deter human intrusion at nuclear waste repositories in the far future, possibly to even as far as 10,000 years. My first thought, of course, was what if the citizens of future earth found one of these sites – would they understand? You can find out more here.
As soon as she reached the village, the girl scampered to seek out the Eldest. He sat by his cave, on a ro -
Blog postA poem prompted by this picture posted for Miranda’s #MidWeekFlash. The deserted crossroads made me think of loneliness, and we’re never more alone than when we die. My creative head’s been thinking mostly in poetry lately. It’ll probably ease off once my new poetry book, A Winkle in Estuary Mud, is finally published. The photograph is fully attributed on Miranda’s site. Good.
At least
the rain stopped.
There is no sound
save the wind that scours
these -
Blog postHere’s a brief timey-wimey short story for you, originally published for my patrons and subsequently in my book Florilegium: a collection of stories inspired by unusual and beautiful words. It was inspired by my friend Jane saying to me one evening “Time is squidgy”.
“Seven of clubs,” Jane said.
Sheilagh turned over the next card. It was the seven of clubs. How was her friend doing this? She watched carefully, trying to spot the trick.
“Two of diamonds,” Jane said. She -
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Blog postA quick poem for you. I’m not sure yet whether it’s too twee for its own good.
Her voice spirals skyward on monarch wings,
slow ballads purred in bumblebee hum,
thin line of ants a steady snare drum.
All life makes its music when Nature sings.
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Sweet golden arias when the wind blows.
Forenoon aubades of sun-slathered daisies.
Dusk serenades from streamburble hazes.
A hawthorn threnody for lost hedgerows.
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Blog post“Old woman!” shouted Kapitan Nikitin. “Clear the way! Move your cart! Move your donkey!”
The tattered bundle of rags, barely human in shape, ceased belabouring the cartwheel with her large wooden mallet. She stood, all faded floral fabrics, sparse grey hair tied up with a tattered scrap of cloth, rheumy eyes squinting at our armoured car from between countless wrinkles. Her toothless mouth spat on the dusty ground.
“And who might you be?” the crone gurned. The donkey in its tr -
Blog postYou are four hundred million years old.
You live on every continent,
with neither roots nor towering trunks.
You tasted the air before the first feather,
before shrews stirred the leaf litter,
before even ferns uncurled their fingers.
When my mind hisses like a kettle,
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Blog post‘Sometimes it pays to be Tricky’
You all know by now of my admiration for Miranda Kate. Her books always draw me right in, but with Dead Lake she has surpassed herself, creating a flirtatious & funny, clever & confident, cheeky, sexy protagonist who nonetheless has moments of simmering self-doubt. It was impossible not to fall in love with Tricky.
From Monday Feb 14th Dead Lake is on sale for 7 full days – up to and including the 20th of February – for only 99p/99c. If -
Blog postAlright, Mam? I brought you some carnations. I know they’re your favourites. Pink this time, look. I see you’ve got a new neighbour: Joep de Boer, born … ooh, same age as you. Died, well, two weeks ago. De Boer. What is that, Dutch? He’s got a lot of flowers, hasn’t he? Clearly, he was a well-loved man. Let’s hope that also means he was nice. I mean, obviously, yes, you’re dead, but something in me wants you to have good company under the ground there. Ha! I can still hear you nag me, you kno
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Blog postFind you and catch you a raven black.
Stifle its breath and end its life.
Grip full well your black-hafted knife,
the still-hot heart from the corpse to hack.
As it nestles in your bloodied palm
slice the heart’s meat with small cuts three
the raven’s spirit to set free.
Speak ‘Occulta corvus’, make your charm.
A black bean place inside the first wound,
the second cut a bean of red.
the third, a bean as white as b -
Blog postFor Remembrance Day, a short story from my Christmas anthology ‘Red Christmas’.
My Own Edith,
I don’t know how properly to start this letter. The circumstances are different from any under which I ever wrote before. I won’t post it for now but will keep it in my pocket. I write these words on Boxing Day. I never imagined, when this damned war began, that I would still be separated from my sweetheart at Christmas. I miss your voice, your smiling eyes.
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Blog postA tree porcupine asleep at Blackpool Zoo.
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Blog postCemetery in Erie, PA
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Blog postA traffic cop in Niagara.
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Blog postIn the Badlands of South Dakota.
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Blog postShot at the Crow Creek Lakota Sioux Powwow 2014
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Blog postA cloud formation seen flying out of Minneapolis.
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Blog postDuckling at Chester Zoo
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Blog postRusseting on old apples, Burton Agnes
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Titles By Michael Wombat
Human 76: Fragments of a Fractured World
Aug 15, 2016
by
Lisa Shambrook,
Michael Wombat,
Steven Paul Watson,
Julia Rios,
K. R. Smith,
MS Manz,
Nick Johns,
Jeff Hollar,
Rebecca Fyfe,
KJ Collard
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