INSIDERS CHAPTER 1 – The Cheek Of It Rother did not notice that the first of them had burst through the skin of his right cheek, slightly below the faded scar under his left eye, until a moment or two after he sliced off its head with his twin-bladed shaving razor. The pain was brief … Read more
CHAPTER 5 : Thoughts And Words “How are you feeling?” asked the voice. Rother tried to ignore it. He desperately wanted to think logically about what was happening to him, but anything resembling a coherent thought was eluding him. He stared at his face in the mirror and, overcoming his feelings of revulsion, he raised … Read more
INSIDERS CHAPTER 4 : Booster Shot “He has not the slightest idea,” insisted Mercy Yoo. Across town, in the expensively faux art deco-style HQ building of the Hu Foundation, she sat directly opposite Mr. Kintsugi Joon-woo, the boss of her boss’s boss. She had arrived that morning feeling inordinately guilty for having deceived Doogle. With … Read more
INSIDERS CHAPTER 3 : Plastered “It was all a dream,” thought Rother. Startled back from sleep to sudden wakefulness, he had felt a flood of relief surging into his head and chest for all of half a second. “Just a dream.” he said aloud, hoping to convince himself. Almost immediately, however, he caught sight of … Read more
INSIDERS CHAPTER 2 : THAT OLD LUMINOUS LOOK AGAIN “What did we learn before our source was shut down?” Smiddy knew from the chilling tone of Elfin’s voice that she would not brook any prevarication in his response. He thought, as he had often thought before, that hers was probably the most inappropriate name for … Read more
I’ve just completed the writing of my latest attempt at a novel. Here’s the first chapter. If people seem to be enjoying it, I’ll post up more … INSIDERS CHAPTER 1 – The Cheek Of It Rother did not notice that the first of them had burst through the skin of his right cheek, slightly … Read more
It’s the wrong month, November, but I was walking our dog Ginny in Oakfrith Wood (near #Urchfont, #Wiltshire) recently and the autumn leaves were falling all around me, and were also scattered beautifully all over the ground, so I found myself walking along singing … “The leaves of brown came tumbling down, remember?Last September, in … Read more
Despite my ever-increasing years (or maybe because of them) I still occasionally get blinding realisations about stuff. Mostly it’s quite certainly stuff that other people have already realised, but such realisations feel new to me. One of these came to me recently in the form of the country song She’s Got You, a 1962 hit … Read more