New short story. A gripping tale of the far future - Leviathan. A flying ship ventures on a secret voyage beyond the mapped edges of New Berlin. Gentleman adventurer Hanna and helmsman Krebb fight for their lives in a quest that could save-or doom—humanity. mybook.to/NewBerlin1Le...

Earlier. 6000 years ago old, the Coldrum Stones lie near the Pilgrims’ Way. In his ‘Antiquities of Cornwall’, published in 1754, William Borlas stated that the name ‘Coldrum’ came from the Cornish word ‘Galdrum’ meaning ‘a place of enchantment.’ Someone (not me) left a small satsuma as an offering.

"Rise of Krampus" is out! 1862. It’s after visiting hours at the Cape Misfortune Asylum - but a visitor has turned up nonetheless. Is he the terrifying Krampus of local folklore - or a madman escaped from the isolation ward? Either way, his story is beyond belief! mybook.to/RiseofKrampus

Everyday is a the beginning of a new dream in a way. We go to sleep dreaming of tomorrow and wake up and dare to dream. But when you have ME/CFS, so often day after day is a heartbreaking betrayal of those dreams by our bodies and minds and by the entire world around us. #MECFS #LongCovid

Case report by @sunsopeningband.bsky.social et al. @workwellfoundation.bsky.social @wearlumia.bsky.social This case report explored whether reduced blood flow to the head contributes to postexertional malaise (PEM) in myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). Using a new in-ear device, researchers measured

@kafkaboots.bsky.social This 1850 daguerreotype made me think of you for some reason.

A man writes because he is tormented, because he doubts. -Andrei Tarkovsky

Love that wants only to get, to possess, is a monstrous thing.

Bowie at the Neue Wache (Unter den Linden) when it was in East Berlin.

Reading The Poems of Seamus Heaney, lovingly edited by my old tutor Bernard O’Donoghue. A huge book.

'The coupling of boredom and intensity is constitutive of crip time, which is warped time' The first Adjacencies, in which two works are considered in relation to one another: Daisy Lafarge on illness, Netflix show Outlast & Alphonse Daudet's In the Land of Pain www.draughtjournal.com/article/flare

Interesting, elegant study suggesting a possible reason #longCovid is more common among women. For Covid infected mice, prolonged cognitive problems (measured e.g. by maze tests) – a 'proxy' for long Covid- were more common among females. As was a stronger immune response. Relevant to ME/CFS?

New on my Substack. "My Local Writer". The woman who introduced the terms “poltergeist” and “doppelgänger” into English usage. open.substack.com/pub/macander...

A discussion about friendship and ME meglobalchronicle.wordpress.com/2024/12/03/a... #MyalgicEncephalomyelitis #ChronicFatigueSyndrome #MEcfs #CFS #PwME 1/

New on my Substack. Can Writers Escape Artificial Intelligence? open.substack.com/pub/macander...

What we cannot say, we must above all not keep silent about, but write. Jacques Derrida d. October 9, 2004

Finding the Telling Detail open.substack.com/pub/macander...

I’ve watched so many horror films recently that they all blurring into one. A woman moves into a rural setting and is spooked by a series of increasingly upsetting possibly supernatural events.

On my Substack - Deadlines can set you free substack.com/home/post/p-...

Mount Aetna from Taormina, Thomas Cole, 1843.

On my Substack: Edgar Allan Poe and the Business of Writing substack.com/home/post/p-...

Night cruise in the Mediterranean, Emil Orlik, early 20th c.

New on my Substack - The Horror of Psychological Horror open.substack.com/pub/macander...

“So often, a visit to a bookshop has cheered me, and reminded me that there are good things in the world.” -Vincent Van Gogh

Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds

Late Summer vibe check.

And mage and sailor are not so far apart; both work with the powers of sky and sea, and bend great winds to the uses of their hands, bringing near what was remote.

Pebble art by my sister-in-law.

#MEcfs #SevereME

Transfiguration, 6th century, Sant'Apollinare in Classe, Ravenna. According to popular belief, the feast of the Transfiguration (August 6) is the last day to bathe in rivers, because it marks the change of seasons. Nature itself is 'transfigured'. Indeed: the light of summer ends around August 6.

Earlier. Six thousand years old, the Coldrum Stones in Kent. In his ‘Antiquities of Cornwall’ book published in 1754, William Borlas stated that the name ‘Coldrum’ came from the Cornish word ‘Galdrum’ meaning ‘a place of enchantment.’

Trump sent officials to see Ghislaine Maxwell quicker than he sent FEMA to Texas

Here’s my #TransPride

"All my big mistakes are when I try to second-guess or please an audience. My work is always stronger when I get very selfish about it." -David Bowie

"St Swithin's Day, if it does rain Full forty days, it will remain St Swithin's Day, if it be fair For forty days, t'will rain no more" No rain near me, but I have seen other accounts where it did.

henryandersonbooks.com/2025/07/09/p... Reporting Reality

Just now.

Hopefully this will delay the AI singularity. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

A local moongate, possibly also an interdimensional portal to those "in the know".

#TodaysPoem "We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows." - Robert Frost Odilon Redon. Reflection (ca. 1905).

"We're all just walking each other home." ~ Ram Dass

Every cloud has a… what was it…

“The End.” An extremely tall tale coming soon.

Poets in the 19th century lived larger than they do today. Below, Shelley describes Byron's days as a guest at Palazzo Guiccioli, in Ravenna, from 1819 to 1821. (Much the same as at Palazzo Mocenigo, in Venice, from 1816 to 1819, except for the aristocratic gamblers, harlots and catamites.)

There’s a mouse under my bed who is loudly rifling through old abandoned printed out stuff.

It's 7th anniversary of this paper. A lot of it was only possible due to Alem's heroic FOI victory, which the #PACETrial team fought so hard to stop.That surely wasn't because the real results weren't as flattering as they had presented them? bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #MECFS

This speculation about benefits is very stressful for the sick and disabled who depend on them. #c4news