I have written a tiny song and sung it. You can read about and hear it at: kesterparkauthor.substack.com/p/if-you-wou... #WritingCommunity #Song #Romance #counterfactual

My work-in-progress, The Librarian and the Savage, has just passed into the five-figure word-count zone, which means it can no longer justifiably be called a short story. It is now a kitchenette, I mean a novelette. #WritingCommunity 1/2

Read my #breakdown of how #shame, #phobia and #fascism interconnect #WritingCommunity

Joy. I am writing again. The Librarian and the Savage are back on the road. When this story is complete, I will have all the raw material I need for my first collection, A Night at the Necropolis. Good chance of getting it out this year if I keep at it. #WritingCommunity

Today's publications Silence, a poem kesterparkauthor.substack.com/p/silence Unknown Island, a poem kesterparkauthor.substack.com/p/unknown-is... The Murder Mystery, a genre analysis kesterparkauthor.substack.com/p/the-murder... #WritingCommunity

A picture drawn with my student in our final class.

Read my review of The Dig (2021), a film which attempts to correct one historical item while managing to blur fact with fiction on several others. #WritingCommunity #film-review #history #archaeology #philosophy #dark-ages #sutton-woo #criticism #historical-correction #historical-fiction

Read my account of how time travel would turn us into 'little green men'. #WritingCommunity #time-travel #ethics #observation #sci-fi #alien-abduction #role-reversal #reasoning

I'm really starting to hate these little Russian Dolls. They're so full of themselves.

Read my latest short piece of writing, Dear Applicant, at kesterparkauthor.substack.com/p/dear-appli... It is an effort to subvert the formal language of official rejection into a statement of motivation and community. #WritingCommunity #letter #rejection #advice #support #winner #loser #metaphor

I've changed my mind. It should be; Life is a magazine, and you are the issue.

Life is an arc, and you are the tangent. #WritingCommunity #philsky

I'm looking for suggestions of what to cover in a special series of interviews when I reach my 500th podcast episode: things I should have covered in past series, but missed out! More explanation here: www.historyofphilosophy.net/suggestions-... Thanks in advance! #philsky #philosophy

Read my short story Happy Ending about a man telling his son a story about a family struggling on a distant planet. #story #happiness #tragedy #betrayal #father-and-son #alien-world #sci-fi #drought #monsoon #rain #death #family #journey #dialogue #compassion #WritingCommunity

Read my first substack article on how to adopt a positive mindset towards bad reviews #article #reviews #star-ratings #amazon #writers #demographics #writing-advice #interpretation #perspective #subjectivity #one-star-review #goodreads #marketing #audience #WritingCommunity

I've had my blogger.com site for nearly two years now and it's been broadly speaking positive, but now it seems that it might be time to try something new. To subscribe to my substack, click the link below. Any pledges would be warmly welcomed, but no pressure! #WritingCommunity

Read my article about the mechanics of a method for self-improvement, Talking About Yourself in the Third Person, here: #article #existentialism #self #feng-shui #self-distancing #cognitive-dissonance #identity #behavioral-psychology #self-improvement #phenomenology #WritingCommunity

Read my poem and first published villanelle about love at a distance, A Thousand Leagues away, at: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/a-th... #betrayal #continents #distance #dreams #guilt #introspective #leagues #love #metaphor #nature #poem #poetry #protection #romance #WritingCommunity

Read my poem about searching for the deepest and most intimate part of yourself, My Name, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/my-n... #becoming, #commendment, #deep, #embodiment, #existence, #free-verse, #identity, #intimacy, #name, #poem, #ritual, #search, #selfhood, #voice, #WritingCommunity

Check out my freshly made index of everything on my blog, and read whatever takes your fancy! www.kesterparkauthor.net/p/index.html PS It's my birthday, so you have to! #WritingCommunity

Read my poem, I Prefer Not To, about product or service review requests: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/i-pr... #anti-capitalism, #anticorporate, #Bartleby, #capitalism, #corporatism, #poem, #political, #protest, #refusal, #reviews, #rhyme, #satire, #self-mockery, #WritingCommunity

Read my poem, I Prefer Not To, about product or service review requests: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2026/01/i-pr... #anti-capitalism, #anticorporate, #Bartleby, #capitalism, #corporatism, #poem, #political, #protest, #refusal, #reviews, #rhyme, #satire, #self-mockery, #WritingCommunity

Read my poem, The Thirty-First of December, about why we celebrate endings at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/the-... #celebration, #completion, #destiny, #divine, #endings, #existence, #faith, #fate, #flow, #free-verse, #perfection, #poem, #universe, #WritingCommunity, #philsky

Read my poem, Soul Bridge, about metaphysical love at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/soul... #body, #bridge, #dance, #intimacy, #love, #meeting, #metaphysical, #metphor, #poem, #rhyme, #romance, #sex, #soul, #WritingCommunity

Read by poem about the regenerative powers of water at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/wate... #communication, #free-verse, #humans, #nature, #pavements, #poem, #poetry, #rain, #renewal, #revival, #roads, #second-chances, #secret-passages, #water, #water-cycle

Read my satirical poem, No Prior Experience, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/no-p... #poem, #satire, #free-verse, #birth, #experience, #mechanics, #philosophy, #executive-babies, #exclamation, #irony, #interviews

Read my poem, This is Not About You, and relieve yourself of the burden of significance, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/this... #cosmic, #egocentrism, #free-verse, #humans, #performance, #perspective, #poem, #sea, #second-person, #therapy, #universe, #unloading, #water, #waves

Is it that all your thoughts belong to one mind or that all your minds belong to one hand? #poem #poetry #one-line-poems #WritingCommunity

Read my poem about a relationship with water, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/rive... #agency, #animals, #being, #contrast, #dreams, #embodiment, #free-verse, #hippopotamus, #influence, #metaphor, #mosquito, #nature, #poem, #relationship, #river, #rowing, #subconsciousness, #water

Read my poem about a painful reflection, Half Man Feel Double, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/12/half... #bad-day, #dark, #divided-self, #earthquake, #free-verse, #hurt, #metaphor, #needle, #pain, #poem, #poetry, #reaction, #reflection, #skin, #suffering

Read my poem about the feeling of making art, Painting a Statue of a Woman, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/11/pain... #art, #artist, #artistic-devotion, #artists-subject, #free-verse, #intimacy, #love-as-art, #meaning, #melancholy, #paint, #painting, #poem, #sacrifice, #statue, #tenderness

Read my poem about the ocean giving birth to a new continent, Solving the Surface, at: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/11/solv... #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #mystical-ecology #free-verse #midwifery #birth #will #surrender #transformation #possibility #emergence #ocean #vision #creation #becoming

Read my poem about the deadliness of love, Your Love at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/11/your.... #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry

Read my short surreal poem, Never So Quiet at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/11/neve... #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry

This week, Farage has threatened to abolish ILR status for legal migrants, has said migrants may be eating swans from public parks, & refused to condemn Trump's linking of autism to paracetamol. The UK media needs to stop pretending his insane extremism is politics as usual.

Read my comparative book review of What Cops Know by Connie Fletcher and The Cheese and The Worms by Carlo Ginzburg, here: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/09/a-co... #WritingCommunity #BookReview #TrueCrime #ReligiousHistory #CulturalHistory #ReadingLife #BookBlogger #Reading

Read my flash fiction story 'tuutuuk and problem foton-ru' at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/09/tuut... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction #ShortStory

There in the drafty, darkened hall, limbs and jaws and bones withal, a row of bodies, nude as sin, knee by hip, and jaw by chin. Read the rest of my gothic, existential poem, Speak for Thyself!, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/09/i.html #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry #philsky

A poem! I am experimenting with a new form of presentation. All comments are welcome. #WritingCommunity #poem #poetry

I have written an 800-word article entitled The Good, the Bad and the Inefficient. It is a first attempt at a kind of cosmic moral philosophy. You can read it here: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/the-... #WritingCommunity #philsky

Don’t toilets glow in the middle of the night? I know it’s really because they’re white, but aren’t they such places of solitude? I mean it—not simply being crude. Read the rest of my poem, Toilet Sitting at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/toil... #WritingCommunity #Poem

I used to think the third conditional was dry until I met Alfred de Molina. Now I know differently. Read my post 'English Grammar and the Phantom Reality Explosion' at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/engl... #WritingCommunity #philsky

Read my funny, weird, touching, scary flash fiction story, The Unbeast Who Was Not, at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/08/the-... #WritingCommunity #FlashFiction

I think art is something that reflects life. While I don't think there's anything in life that necessarily doesn't do so, I think this reflectivity ought to be intentional or observed, so I'm open to the idea that there are things in life that, being neither, are not art. #WritingCommunity #philsky

Read my exploration of just two words in Paul Bowles' 1950 novel The Sheltering Sky: Port Moresby. Why did Bowles use the name of the capital of Papua New Guinea as that of his principal character? Visit my blog to see what I think. #WritingCommunity www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/07/on-n...

I was at the bus stop the other day, and - I kid you not - there was a guy with a Mexican-style sombrero standing there. The longer I stood next to him, the more I clocked this profound smell coming from his hat - like a food smell. 1/3 #WritingCommunity

Imagine, then, another world, layered over this one, but separate and distinct, a slathering of peanut butter over tessellating pieces of cheese. Read the rest of my prose poem Sonic Slice at www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/07/the-... #WritingCommunity #Poetry #Absurd

We borrow the inexorability of the universe and, with it, endure. (Thoughts of a workaday teacher.) #WritingCommunity

At ten o'clock one Saturday, I sellotaped razor blades all over my body and wondered why I did not become sharp. If you would like to read the rest of my poem, Unsupervised One Saturday, it is here: www.kesterparkauthor.net/2025/07/unsu... #WritingCommunity