I've had a story published by @wensumlit.bsky.social . It's bittersweet and a little sad, but I hope it's good. Find out for yourself, here: wensumlit.co.uk/2025/12/01/i... #wensumit #shortstory #fiction

The lovely people at #eggplusfrog have published a story I wrote. It’s a wild ride. #flashfiction #story #shortstory eggplusfrog.com/tag/all-hail...

If you want to read a nasty little folk horror tale about a man who murders his wife in the woods, I just had that exact story published by #darkharbourmagazine: www.darkharbormagazine.com/pork-chops/ #flashfiction #story #horror

Writing is a useful tool to put between my feelings and having to feel them.

I’ve just read Douglas Dunn’s short story Bobby’s Room and I’m delighted to say that it’s very good.

The Papua New Guinea Courier is in rare form.

Destroy this myth. Please share if you have visited and researched in a library this past year! RT And give a shout out to your favorite library you have ever visited.

An essay I sent out months ago has been rejected. The message in the email includes: ‘we appreciate the time and commitment your piece must of taken’. Which seems a bigger FU than not responding at all. #writing

Flax

Silver

Zone

Wither

Resistance

Coping isn’t an option

Large but cramped

This airless chamber

Who likes chocolate?

Just finished the second draft of a story. At the moment, it’s the best I’ve ever written. Now I’m going to leave it for a month so it can mature into the worse. #writing

Jeez

I’ve reached a point in a fun project where I need to write a plan and acknowledge the fun stops here and it becomes just a project.

Watching the 1961 TV movie of Anna Karenina with Sean Connery in it. I can’t tell if he’s delivering a standout performance or if he’s the only actor I recognise.

Just watched #Conclave. I never could have guessed watching old men fill out forms could be so interesting.

Hey, cat accounts pspspspsps

The problem with having guests for dinner is you inevitably end up having left over guest for a week afterwards.

The best thing about being a bit sad at Christmas is that I’ve just eaten a panettone. Any other time of the year, I’d be sad and hungry

Massive away win for the little fella.

Jesus, Duo Lingo, you sound like the woman at the tattoo removal clinic

I love the BBC show Things Fell Apart by Jon Ronson. I especially like how he says at the end of the podcast that it’s written and presented by him. He sounds surprised by that fact and it’s charming.

A guy once told me he wasn’t widely read but he was well read. So, not well read at all then, Dave.

If anything represents the increasing speed with which one is hurtling to the grave it’s choosing Shredded Wheat for breakfast.

Had to turn our mattress, now I’m having an existential crisis. I now understand how the capitalist oligarchy keeps us placid.

I like Blue Sky, but occasionally it comes across as a breakup party where everyone complains, ahem, about their X.

If I could sum up my accomplishments, it would be ‘always the reserve bridesmaid, never the bridesmaid.’

nobody does more brutal fashion reviews than the irish

My favourite quote from Murphy by Samuel Beckett: His figure so excited the derision of a group of boys playing football in the road that they stopped their game. She watched him multiplied in their burlesque long after her own eyes could see him no more.

Oh my lord theoatmeal.com/comics/takin...

It would be lovely if writers I admire could stop having sex with underage girls. Is that too much to ask?

Late to the party, but Guided By Voices are pretty good, aren’t they!

I have reached the awful age where I get angry at good advice because it’s delivered by someone in their 20s. OK, YouTube channel telling me tips on writing first drafts, I have notes for you too

I saw an Insta Reel by one of the protesting farmers. He started the video by saying ‘Stop me if I’m rambling…’ and I was like this guy knows his audience.

I keep thinking Blue Sky is like the party scene in This is England and Combo will turn up in a minute, sing happy birthday really badly, and everyone will feel kind of awkward.

While I’ve never been bullied online in its truest sense, I do have a Duolingo subscription.

My favourite thing about Iris Murdoch’s writing is the tension between whether she knew her characters were often despicable, bigoted arseholes, but let the reader draw their own conclusions, or if she thought their terrible attributes were entirely reasonable.

Early isn’t it? Except for those of you that it isn’t

It’s not important to have an opinion on everything, but IMHO, the Irish modernist writers were the best modernists. They at least remembered to put some childish sex jokes in their impenetrably clever philosophical books.