Eat, Pray … Wait

Looking for the good life? Want to express your basic nature, unworried by constraints? Need to get away from it all? You are not the only one, there’s a whole bunch of folk itching to change their surroundings … ‘Eat, Pray, Wait’, something small and nasty by moi, appears in the latest edition of Not […]

Disgust

David Stevens transforms the countryside into a terrifying ecological nightmare in “Crop Rotation“, a story that makes disgust its bread and butter. Why, thank you very much! I can’t ask for much more than that: terrifying, nightmare, and disgust, all in one sentence. Insert smiley face here. I am happy to see that Haralambi Markov’s review of […]

DUNKIRK

I just saw the teaser trailer, and I am really looking forward to Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk. I’ve relished the developments in technology and filmmaking that allow us at least a little glimpse of what historical events might have been like. I know, I know, it is still filtered through perceptions and shaped by market demands and […]

E.G. Wilson …

… has a story in At the Edge (hmm, must … buy … now…!), and is the latest interviewee from the anthology at Angela Slatter’s blog. Do the left click thing and check it out.

Hutchinson’s Europe

I have been lucky to find some gold nuggets amongst the dross recently. It is amongst my favourite things, to settle into a book, and to have the feeling grow, yeah, this is one of those, I like it, I really like it … The smile widens, time passes, and I throw up a silent […]

Don’t forget that Love Hurts

I have been plugging “At the Edge” recently, but I should give a mention to another anthology I am in, because it contains a story I was really very happy to see make its way out into the world, ‘The Boulevardier’. (The Boulevardier, he’s really quite a disgusting … man.) If you like dark stories, […]

Smuggling

In Australia the ABC is reporting, as though it is an outrageous discovery, that Australia Post is unable to screen for drugs and explosives in the post. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation made this purported scoop by writing to Australia Post under Freedom of Information legislation. The problem is, they wrote to the wrong people. They […]

Moi

And there is an interview with me at Angela Slatter’s blog (left click here! left click here!) regarding my story in At the Edge. (Oh gosh, I’m all overcome with … self-importance.)