Writing
Top level category for all my scribblings
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Gulls
The not-there seagulls were agitated today.In the near dark of the winter morning twilightI could not make out what the cause of their irritation might be.The ink-blue of the early sky providing insufficient light for me to discernAnything more than silhouette shadows of silent buildingsAnd barren branches.I hurried onLest I become the target of their…
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Former Glory
While I work on my next short story (“The Routing Forecast” or “Curses”) here’s another song I wrote back in my late teens/early twenties – well over thirty years ago… Former Glory Why was there crime in the city at that time in 1979?Why were there marks in the hearts of all the parks?Why were…
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I Hate it Here
I hate what they have made the world to beThe rank corruptionAnd not just the monetary kindI mean complete moral, ethical corruptionNecrotic, gangrenous, cancerous putrefactionThe way they have degraded everythingPulled us down to their levelInto the filth where they wallowAll that they touch rotsIt sticks to everything we doThe deformation of normalityOf civilityAt first we…
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The Soteriologist
I suppose you could call this a companion piece to the “Soteriology” story, but the only real link between them is the (rather pretentious) titles I gave them both. Instead of a society working to save all its people from damnation, this story concerns itself with how a super powered being would choose who to…
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Canary Wharf Gothic
A little while ago I had a mini obsession with the “XXXX gothic” pieces, and decided to draft one for an area I know well – Canary Wharf in London’s Docklands – an area that has seen significant investment and building, with an influx of business and people. But like most places it has its…
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I, Corporation
I almost cannot believe that I do not have a post or any content relating to my other “novel in progress” (or rather more accurately stalled and unsure if it will ever get picked up again) I, Corporation. It was supposed to be my third book, and a deliberate break in style – an attempt…
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Displacement
Like TSoW post, this exists to allow me to add a Category and tags to the page for Displacement. And again, if you like the sound of the book, it’s here on Amazon.
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The Stealer of Worlds
This post exists to allow me to add a Category and some tags to the page for The Stealer of Worlds, the YA book I wrote waaaaaayyyyy back when… If you happen to find your way to this then go check out the book on Amazon – thanks!
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Untitled Everywoman
Back when I was a LOT younger, I wrote the lyrics to a handful of songs. As with a lot of my writing, going back and doing a re-read of them now with the benefit of hindsight and being a trans person, I can see me, the real female me, trying to tell the old…
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Killing Us
This is a piece I wrote back in February 2023 just after the transphobic murder of Brianna Ghey. Depressingly, I’ve had to add a couple of new lines to it to cater for the people who are now willingly lending their talent and fame to the further enrichment of the person who is successfully winning…
Beckbridge - sometime scribbler 