Writing
Top level category for all my scribblings
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Soteriology
This story came from an idea I will be using in a later work, but which started as “a hazmat suit which could withstand Hell”. From that idea came the first line – after all, humanity’s first foray into the Inferno would likely not go well. Of all the recent crop of short stories I’ve…
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Albion’s Witness
I took this photo walking on the Downs in late July, still trying to make sense of the country I had grown up in, and what it had done to me, and all trans people. Seeing this old(ish) waypoint marker made me think of “Albion” and the ancient land I stood on, and how we…
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The Department
So, this idea was originally going to be “the plot” of Displacement – I envisioned an opening scene cutting between parallel narratives of a surgeon desperately trying to save a patient on the operating theatre with someone being mugged in an alley – the conceit being I would use the same dialogue between intercut scenes…
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Cancelled
A short poem I wrote after another morning of disrupted travel to work, and general feelings on who our “elected representatives” are blaming for the ills of the world, when we should be looking elsewhere. Cancelled Another cancelled trainAnother disrupted morningCommuters stood around yawningAs we’re all made late again. First world problems we all agreeAt…
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Monument
I wrote this last night, towards the end of Trans Day of Remembrance, and it kinda poured out of me, like a lot of my best stuff does. Monument Where is our monument?The monolith to our lost siblingsOur memorialTo those of usWho had the ultimate pricePlaced on their headsUnwillinglyBy “civilised” societyWhen it is anything butA…
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Ölek Sun is Dead
I, like most authors I suspect, have notebook after notebook (or more likely Apple Notes) of ideas – fragments, concepts, characters, themes, musings etc. And like most authors probably more than I could ever actually fully get out of my head and into actual words, before I shuffle off. So I am trying to do…
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Another blast from the past
Following on from the Pick-a-Path stuff I found in my old files, I also came across a piece I’d written back in December 2016, when Brexit had not yet utterly consumed UK politics. I thought it might be amusing to use the “12 Days of Christmas” format for a whimsical (and apolitical) take on events…
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Ancient Wisdom
I was doing some housekeeping on my (somewhat scattered) writer’s notes recently, and found a file from 2003 called wisdomquotes.rtf(!). Opening it, it was a bunch of ‘quotes’ from fictional fantasy scholars / characters (as opposed to ACTUAL fantasy characters 🙂 from when I was kicking around the idea of writing a Pick-a-Path style adventure…
Beckbridge - sometime scribbler 