November’s flash fiction. Or if you prefer, it’s a very short story. Or maybe it’s a vignette! Any which way, it’s a quick read. Set in Edinburgh, with a mention of my favourite pub, The Jolly Judge. kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/o...

November’s flash fiction. Or if you prefer, it’s a very short story. Or maybe it’s a vignette! Any which way, it’s a quick read. Set in Edinburgh, with a mention of my favourite pub, The Jolly Judge. kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/o...

It’s a good one this morning. Taking it in.

I’ve been thinking about my favourite reads from the second half of 2025. This is my post from the end this summer. In order of reading. Photo taken at The Regent in Blackpool 📚 kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/06/29/b...

'but Claire gathered that his monologue had evolved into being about things he liked. She knew his type.' A wonderful drollery in this vignette of a story by @kieranstories.bsky.social. A tiny slice of life that suggests so much more.

this is just to say i have eaten the grind that was in the hustle

Feeling positive and ready to take on a week of fun.

Happy birthday Doctor Who. The Mask of the Mandragora tonight. Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen at their best. Fair play to the Doctor for walking around San Martino in his scarf - must’ve been roasting. These Blu-ray sets are on sale pretty much everywhere at the moment - worth picking up imo.

I’m trying to share a new story each month. This story was inspired by two pieces of art: Break Down by Michael Landy and Las Meninas by Velázquez. It’s very short if you want to take a look! Relaxing Sunday all. kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/11/23/o...

Sucker for books about fictional bands. This is more about what it meant to be in a band, looking back thirty years. I liked how Pete Moran moved through the book like a ghost. His presence was felt whenever he was ‘on page’. Mark E Moon was standout. @northernmailman.bsky.social

A quid each! Precious things.

brecon beacons crystalline light casting slow moving shadows over breastful mountaintops brecon beacon fell falls to the tramline my son is a ferryman he splits mersey lines with spectacled vision

Found on the pavement. ‘Owner of black audi…’ There’s something masterful about the crossing out of couldn’t for didn’t.

I’ve been staying up late to watch Doctor Who recently. Finished Ghost Light tonight, which I’d never seen before, and now I’ve started Part 1 of the below. Points for anyone who knows the story.

Plus of plugging into Monday cynicism is Friday. youtu.be/YVJ0ZKYu-GI?...

Beautiful scenes this morning on the Fylde imo. Southport glints in the distance.

The algorithm suggested a podcast about capitalist realism, I started to listen then the host said half the interview was hidden behind their Patreon. Turns out there is no alternative!

Best quote on the Kingston Christmas AI incident yet: “There’s clearly something political about it but nobody knows what it is,” open.substack.com/pub/londonce...

It’s the exclusive everyone wanted, the story that will win next year’s Pulitzer… I can reveal London’s giant AI generated Christmas artwork, the subject of much online mockery, is being torn down - and I honestly *genuinely* think you’ll never guess why. www.londoncentric.media/p/ai-artwork...

Absolutely in love with this song and this live version. It’s so heavy, man. youtu.be/4gEc5Pq50xo?...

I wanted to share something I wrote in 2018 about anchoritism. Thanks to Mike Fox for reading this a while ago, and giving me the confidence to look at it again properly. Cheers all. @polyscribe70.bsky.social kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/11/19/o...

Is it biggins

Bobby Charlton banging on about the inexistence of time again.

Monday morning, booting up the work computer. Time’s the revelator, the revelator. youtu.be/rV_uFpbXZ9k?...

I’ve had a good run of Sunday charity shopping recently. Garry Kilworth is someone I’ve wanted to read for a while now. The nights are drawing in - time for chilling tales.

FFF09062025 Longford by Kieran Wyatt @kieranstories.bsky.social #FlashFiction #writingcommunity #flashfiction freeflashfiction.com/fiction/long...

Christ, the Tiny Desk ‘This is Hardcore’ goes hard man. youtu.be/x_KlY-AegeE?...

Bought myself To Rise in the Dark by Nick J. Brown. His almost daily Vic & Bob pics on here bring me such a warm glow, I already feel endeared to his work. But this seems right up my street and if my delivery is on track, I will be reading this weekend. @northernmailman.bsky.social

‘I’ve never read any Yeats, but I did enjoy his Wine Lodges.’

Sounds absolutely exhausting.

did not expect the site of Thomas Beckett’s murder to be memorialized in a fashion that is quite so fucking metal

Started the new Best British Short Stories late last night. Probably not a good idea to read ‘Torsos’ by Linden Hibbert right before bed. Deeply strange and pretty unnerving stuff. Great though.

There’s a little terrier called Banjo running around the path as I’m trying to have my lunchtime walk. Just like fuck off Banjo, it’s not all about you mate.

Sold!

[at a book launch, watching the author read from their new novel] hang on, when did reading become so performative

I’ve edited this a bit on my on its last legs laptop. I hope the paragraphs looks a bit nicer now! Very short story if you want to take a look. kieranstorieswriter.wordpress.com/2025/10/21/o...

I’m enjoying Rule, Nostalgia by Hannah Rose Woods. Particularly good on how Blitz rhetoric was used during lockdown. Brat is fun but almost too disjointed for me. Described on the blurb as an ‘Instant Cult Classic’ which feels like a contradiction in terms.

Contender for the most boring jigsaw ever?

Love this. I read The Building Inspector in one sitting. Unnerving, atmospheric. A great story in every flat, terrace, and former industrial estate. Favourites ‘The Ghost House’, ‘Lost’, and ‘Power Off’. Congratulations @dustynewrose.bsky.social

Thomas Pynchon.

Great Nightjar post today: The Building Inspector by Myriam Frey @dustynewrose.bsky.social. Beautifully packaged by @nicholasroyle.bsky.social as always (book protected by a cutout from a box of Krave). Look forward to settling down with these stories later.

Finished this wintery morning. I thought it was all a bit academic. Nadsat all felt a bit wink-wink aren’t we clever. I’m fascinated by the epilogue which is in some editions but not others, and takes out any last invective by making Alex all broody.

Remember, remember the 5th of November... Rare colour photo of Gunpowder plotters emerges... #yousayyouwantarevolution

This isn’t particularly interesting but I feel like I finally ‘get’ Highway 61 Revisited. It’s really kept me going on this rainy Tuesday. youtu.be/5-ZmD3sCFcE?...

Sorry about that last comment.

Sunday morning charity shopping. A trio of Penguins.

We’re seeing The Exorcist tonight at our local cinema. As a former avid listener to the Church of Wittertainment, I could not be more excited. Seen it at home a lot. (It’s also our way of marking eight years together - happy anniversary, Al’.) youtu.be/Hj83ugShbic?...

Finished Starve Acre this morning. Very good. Liked it much more than the film.

Reading The Spook’s Apprentice by Joseph Delaney. Just a real thrill being able to buy the whole series as an adult! This is the book that really got me reading. I remember Joseph Delaney coming into our school. A lovely, local man, and a real inspiration.

🧵I've posted them before, but here's my thread of horror/kids' TV double-bill cinema posters. Happy Halloween... #halloween #cinema #graphicdesign #poster