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How to talk to death.
This is a prequel to the Badland and does not make much sense without previously reading that story. Death taps its finger impatiently on the table, staring coldly into your eyes. You called her
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Continue ReadingThe Badland.
This one is quite heavy on the horror, gore and general nastiness side. It was inspired by the ‘fantastic’ series of works by the Polish artist Zdzislaw Beksinski (1929-2005) – which are also very graphic
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Tell the truth. You see, I pass this house every day on the way to the café – so it really isn’t weird that I got suspicious. Right? Can I smoke in here? I’m gonna
Continue ReadingAg Cogadh (At War)
There is a lot of Celtic mythology in here that is explained with footnotes at the bottom 😀 Ag Cogadh (At War). We could see their silhouettes over the horizon, black behemoths, braziers lit
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A cuppa. Full…. Stop! He had done it, a solid four thousand words over a couple hours, not too shabby considering how many times he had stopped to ponder or edit the work. He took
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The cat put a paw on the glass. Jenny could see her toe-beans, very pink, almost as large as she was. That might have been due to the fact that she was stuck in a
Continue ReadingTwo nobodies, at the end of the world, fighting over nothing.
Two nobodies, at the end of the world, fighting over nothing. All was ash. All was ruin. The sun had given up on being bright, and decided to cast its own grey shadow. A trail
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Let’s go on a journey, squeaked the hamster from his tiny pocket in the woman’s bag. “But where to?” Asked the woman to her tiny rodent friend. “Up.” He answered. And so, she did, she
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