Why I Don’t Not Like The New Doctor Who Series

Just to get it out of the way, as I suspect it may be held up as a human shield in front of snipers, the reason I do not like the new Doctor Who series is NOT because it now has a female lead. I was thrilled to bits when the reveal of Jodie Whitaker […]

Eyes Closed

Shades

I wake, with slumber fogging up my head And turn to where your sleeping shadow lies And stretch my arm across the half cold bed And miss your eyes, and miss and miss your eyes Coffee for one, and while the water drips The light moves slyly and I watch entranced, Upon the kitchen floor, […]

Momentary

It was boredom that drove me. The drugs were simply for something to do. Acid, peyote, salvia, shrooms, they were all just things to do. I’d read Castaneda, and Huxley, and the others. The mysticism of it passed me by, the experiences all I wanted. I was introduced to Petrie by the friend of a […]

Legacy

“You have to help me,” she said, “We’re of the same blood.” Three in the morning and she’d shaken me awake, grinning broadly and asked if I would help her hide a body. I’d got used to this since moving into my grandfather’s house. She came with the territory it seemed. She was gorgeous, pale […]

Making Up Is Hard To Do

But it is a lot of fun. A good friend of mine is having a birthday party later this month and, being of excellent judgement, he has decided to make it a costume party. The theme is movie characters and, since I went as one of my favourite masked psychopaths (V from V for Vendetta) […]

Slow Down, You Move Too Fast

Poppy

Crack

The Blackrow Ballads – songs from a mistaken pilgrimage

From the Preface: This is the secret no one Dare discuss:The final voice that sings and calls to DustAll who are called upon to Dance upon the dayThat foolish piper blows the Dream away. + The Tryst All fondly I recall the dayThe sun shone down, a gentle kiss,Your endless gentle courtly way,I smile in […]

Clear Path Forward

Often she dreamed of towers and dragonback flying and strong hands holding hers, of golden rings blazing with power and of long tracks in the wilderness that led, finally, to nowhere at all. At precisely 06:15 the screen in her apartment blared out its alarm and dragged her upright and attentive while she was still […]