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Hello! I am an old crone who very much enjoys reading SF, urban fantasy and horror. I write all sorts, some of it SF, urban fantasy and horror, a lot of it not. Sometimes I can even be funny, so I'm told. My short stories have appeared in the anthologies 'Cold Iron: Ghost Stories from the 21st Century' (Iron Press) and 'Science Fiction For Survival: An Archive For Mars' (Valley Press), as well as in magazines ranging from the literary magazine 'Dreamcatcher' to 'Writing Magazine' and 'The People's Friend' (the latter definitely not SF, urban fantasy or horror). I do regular local spoken word events, and needless to say there is a novel on the go. My new website is currently under construction, and you are cordially invited to come and have a peep at the blogs and free stories there. You can even go mad and sign up for my newsletter! Plus the usual social media stuff. All details below. Thanks for dropping in! (Oh, the picture is of my highly critical personal editor.)
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The Net Caster (Part Eleven)
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The Net Caster (Part Ten)
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The Net Caster (Part Nine)
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The Net Caster (Part Eight)
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The Net Caster (Part Seven)
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It is interesting to see how
Posted on Tue, 02 Jul 2024
It is interesting to see how relevant your piece is now, a year after it was written.
It saddens me that Brits are no longer taught about our history of dissent. The Peasants' Revolt, the Chartists, the Tolpuddle Martyrs and, of course,...
Read full commentPosted in An Easter Message Of Confusion from Alfred N.Muggins Part 2 : France!
Pick of the Day
Posted on Sun, 30 Jun 2024
This is our absolutely splendid Facebook and X Pick of the Day! Please do share if you enjoy it too.
Read full commentPosted in A View From the Cab - The Debate 1948
You can't beat a bit of
Posted on Mon, 01 Jul 2024
You can't beat a bit of Hawkwind to cheer up the soul. And it sounds as though you definitely needed a bit of soul cheering.
You see, that's what I like, a bit of education with my highly enjoyable reading. I never knew wasps and figs...
Read full commentPosted in Holiday on Ice
Pick of the Day
Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024
This clever and mesmerising poem is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day! Please do share if you enjoy it too.
Cover image by Li Qun, free to use at Wikimedia Commons:...
Read full commentPosted in This Rose Garden
At last, something that makes
Posted on Thu, 27 Jun 2024
At last, something that makes sense of the whole damn fiasco! Thank you, Paul.
Each day I think we must have reached the summit of plonkerdom, and each day a new peak appears.
I have to disagree with celtic - after the Biden-Trump...
Read full commentPosted in Boris and the Hustings
Pick of the Day
Posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2024
Each day is a victory...and a mountain to climb. This brilliant poem is our Facebook and X Pick of the Day. Please do share.
Picture by Michael Klajban, copyright free at Wikimedia Commons:...
Read full commentPosted in parched
Yes, we are, we are indeed.
Posted on Fri, 21 Jun 2024
Yes, we are, we are indeed. And the worst of us are almost certain to make that leap into the unknown, and all I hope is that when they get wherever they're going they meet the same fate as the human space travellers in 'Don't Look Up'. (If you...
Read full commentPosted in Escape Stupidity
I think we can all sympathise
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
I think we can all sympathise with Alfred's question. Justice and respect seem fairly basic things to desire - as you say, who would think they could be so difficult!
Read full commentPosted in Alfred Muggins’ Easter Dream
Thank you for posting this,
Posted on Sat, 22 Jun 2024
Thank you for posting this, Di, definitely one from the heart. It is so sad when young people feel a vote is worthless and they have no investment in democracy. It is very true that many people feel the climate crisis is something vague in the...
Read full commentPosted in "For, being green, there is great hope" (quote from Shakespeare's HENRY VI PART 2, ACT 3 SCENE 1)
Thanks, Ewan. It certainly is
Posted on Wed, 19 Jun 2024
Thanks, Ewan. It certainly is blame the other. I had a conversation with someone the other day who thinks minimum wage is the problem. It's too high, apparently. Destroying businesses. The boats too, of course, destroying everything else, but...
Read full commentPosted in Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent
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