On the limits of solidarity
The weak suffer what they must Not every moth is a Goth. That is lie spread by butter fly.
Tag: art
Mind your mindfulness, son
I have a new story live over at foofaraw zine, a bit of fun called “Developing your mindfulness practice 😊 !” . I trust this will fix all of your mental hygiene issues while you wait for The Coming of The Great Ones. Unless your name is Little Johnny. Or Bambi. Check it out by […]
CRUX 2026 launch
I am very happy that I have a story appearing in CRUX 2026, created, published, edited, produced, etc, by Meridian Australis, “Melbourne’s premier speculative fiction organisation” – it must be true, they would not say it if it wasn’t. CRUX Volume 1 is being launched at Readings Carlton on 4 June. Unfortunately I live 878 […]
David Malouf
David Malouf has died. I stopped reading David Malouf simply because I had read everything he had written. I lie. Not his poetry. It is a great failure of mine, I can only read poetry that I read at high school. Some lack of trust in myself. Some lack in myself. Some lack. So, correction. […]
VALE IAN WATSON
I am very sorry to hear of the death of SF writer Ian Watson. I recently re-read, with great pleasure, Whores of Babylon, a book I can recall purchasing new when it was first released many decades ago. I can also remember scouring one of the many second hand bookstores that used to be common […]
Donna Tartt is so very very smartt
Oh I knew it was an AI equipped scammer from the outset, but I also know that Donna Tartt is a great writer, very perceptive, with terrific critical faculties, so I am pretty sure that if she read my stories, she would actually say something along these lines. Hello Mr. Stevens, [that’s me! she is […]
STRAYLYA DAY
FLAG DAY It was Flag Day so we wrapped ourselves in our flags and went to the pub. What a jape! What a crack-up! We were hilarious! Everybody else had the same idea, but. Those bastards. All the flags were the same because we are all Flaglanders. It would have been nice to wrap myself in […]
Happy Birthday Po!
Edgar Allan, the bleakest of the Teletubbies, turns 217 today. (someone else made this art, it was not me) Dark Universal and Justice League Dark ain’t got anything on some of the scary Teletubbie art (I’ll let you google it yourself). Remember, each of them is over 6 foot tall, they live in a very […]
A meagre homage
JG Ballard died in 2009 on April 19 (I am a tad late to say ‘OTD’). I read his “The Voices of Time” in a paperback collection edited by Damien Knight, 100 Years of Science Fiction. (I was very happy to buy those two volumes, by the way, in the mid-70s, with part of the […]
Crop Rotation Podcast
For your aural pleasure, my story Crop Rotation is available as a podcast from 29 December at The Nights End Podcast. My thanks to James Barnett and Dissonance Media.
