Bought sparklers to wave in the garden to celebrate the new year. None of them light. What a brilliant start to 2026. Happy New Year!

Merry Christmas, everyone. I hope you all have the best day, whatever that looks like for you.

I wasn't expecting much, but this is a terrific film. www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Had my first mince pie of the year just now. I refuse to feel guilty about that.

This is so brilliant!

Features like this are weird. I used to work in the food hall at M&S, but I wouldn't use that fact to presume a position of authority on what the best sandwiches ever are.

Finally! Wordle 1,393 1/6 #wordle 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

When you get invested in a TV show, series one ends on a cliffhanger, then you find out it's not getting a series 2.

Oh my, this week's episode of Severance though...

I actually wrote stories! Two of them! And submitted them! Wonders will never cease. I'm excitedly awaiting the rejections.

Goodbye Sadie. Your flame burned short, but so bright. The mice and birds round here won't miss you at all, but we will. Sleep well.

Well, this one's gonna stay with me for ages. The most disturbing, dark, brilliant book I've read in a good while.

Wrote a story for the first time in, oh, six or seven months. I'm not saying it's good, mind you, but it's great to get back to it.

Happy New Year, everyone!

It is traditional in Iceland to give the gift of a book to be opened on Christmas Eve. Books are unwrapped and then read together. It is called Jolabokaflod (Christmas book flood). 📖 🎄 🖼 Reading Girl, Gustav Adolph Hennig, 1828.

Look at the difference in covers between autobiographies by men and those by women. Look how tedious and serious the men's books are, with their grey and black colour schemes. I'm not afraid to read a book with a bit of fucking orange on the cover. But presumably publishers think most men are. Sigh.

Each year, the Christmas decorations go up in my local Spar and they think, 'sod it, break out the Easter chocolate'. I sigh inwardly each time, curse their ridiculousness, and then buy Mini Eggs.

There's a McDonald's radio ad for Happy Meals, which talks tells you (or your kid most likely) can choose to get a Grinch toy or book with it. It ends with the words "Choice of toy or book is between book or toy." This is a weird sentence. It baffles me. What is its purpose?

can’t stop thinking about this Mary Oliver poem 🥹

Does anyone here play Two Words? I need more Two Words friends. You can find me there at the name of Dave100. twowords2.page.link/share

Hello new BlueSky followers! I almost never post here (or anywhere else at the moment, really), but it's lovely to have you.

Excited to receive my copy of Hunger, this awesome anthology from @urbanpigspress.bsky.social, featuring my story A Clownward Spiral and loads of other amazing tales. Every copy sold raises money for food banks, a fantastic cause - get yours here: www.amazon.co.uk/Hunger-antho...

Has anyone here seen Robot Dreams? Saw it today. It's just wonderful. Go watch it now!

Late to the party for #InternationalCatDay

Cat : I am old and tired and need rest Me: you can rest after I give you this antibiotic Cat: I am young and spry and can jump to the top of the armoire

Currently adapting some old micro fiction into game-making app Downpour. downpour.games/~Dave/fun-wi...

We took Teengoth on a Prison Tour. They gave her 25 years without parole. Oh, well.

Lovely to feature in the beautiful final edition of @ellipsiszine.bsky.social with loads of incredible writers.

With the Iron Claw in cinemas and Wrestlemania on the horizon, I'm excited that my wrestling-themed story Jobber has gone live at such a timely moment. Thanks Mr Bull for publishing it!

Our swansong zine is now available to preorder (digital editions can be downloaded instantly) Subscriber and preorder issues will be posted out over the coming weeks. Copies from £3 www.ellipsiszine.com/fourteen/

My story Still Life will be in this, alongside work from a host of flash superstars. Should be an amazing swansong for Ellipsis Zine!

Chuffed to have this funny story about science, life, love and Labradors up @bullshitlit.bsky.social today! www.bullshitlit.com/post/a-story...

A story I wrote seven years ago (!) has finally found a home! The Pig That Watched The Apocalypse is now live at The Odd Magazine. A cool way to start the year! theoddmagazine.wixsite.com/oddity27/odd-s…

Happy New Year, Blueskyers! (Is that what we're called?)

There needs to be a word for the particular sorrow felt in that moment in the days post-Christmas when you realise there's no blue cheese left.

My new story @urbanpigspress.bsky.social about evil killer swans on the rampage. #flashfiction

Not sure what time of year it even is now.

Chuffed to have Squadron, a story about evil killer swans on the rampage, accepted by @urbanpigspress.bsky.social! Keep an eye out for it. #flashfiction

Stuck on 99 followers. Who's going to be lucky number 100?!

One of the cool things about Ellipsis Zine is that they take reprints. So back from the internet graveyard is this, one of my personal faves, my comic horror story about a maniacal man-eating printer! #flashfiction

100% recommended, but I'll never be able to go near any puppet ever again. #books

Excited to have my wrestling-themed story 'Jobber' accepted by BULL for publication later in the year!

'Places I Find My Daughter and Myself' CNF by Stephanie Carty I find my daughter under things. Curled asleep cat-like under the mattress. Humming in the linen box with the lid closed. Sitting cross-legged beneath a nest of coats in my wardrobe... www.ellipsiszine.com/places-i-fin...

This made me chuckle.

Picture of one of my cats to kick things off here.