Cyclist Marc needs to impress friends in the baking heat of the French afternoon. But is the old man he meets going to help or send him freewheeling to hell? My short story will be on www.kaidankaistories.com podcast on July 11.Current project fupperynewsletter.substack.com
#horror #stories
We've aestheticized the 1980s into a neon-soaked, synth-driven dreamland, but the 80s I lived in were "starchy." They were the color of nicotine-stained wallpaper, the taste of overboiled cabbage #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
I'm a town planner; I don't care about your internal emotional landscape. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
I'm a town planner; I don't care about your internal emotional landscape. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
There is nothing more fundamentally selfish than a man who's spent his entire life being a "dodgy geezer" suddenly deciding he needs to be "forgiven" because his kidneys are packing in. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
There is nothing more fundamentally selfish than a man who's spent his entire life being a "dodgy geezer" suddenly deciding he needs to be "forgiven" because his kidneys are packing in. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
Cyclist Marc needs to impress friends in the baking heat of the French afternoon. But is the old man he meets going to help or send him freewheeling to hell? My short story will be on www.kaidankaistories.com podcast on July 11.Current project fupperynewsletter.substack.com
#horror #stories
a lesson here for modern "cancel culture" or whatever we're calling the digital lynch mobs this week: if you push the village pariah far enough, they might stop trying to fit into your scripted #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
a lesson here for modern "cancel culture" or whatever we're calling the digital lynch mobs this week: if you push the village pariah far enough, they might stop trying to fit into your scripted #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
The 80s weren't a time of moral clarity; they were a time of extreme, high-functioning compartmentalization. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
Down a snow-drifted alley a tipped up wheelie bin wide open like a pm’d corpse and a cheap suitcase ripped apart with cheap clothes scattered in the slush. Like a proxy for a murder victim. #writingcommunity
The 80s weren't a time of moral clarity; they were a time of extreme, high-functioning compartmentalization. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
Sadly, this kind of shit happens in all wars. It's one of the reasons they're awful.
Always best to write *people*, not labels, symptoms or community identities, regardless of whether the label is about health, sex, ability, ethnicity or anything else.
It's annoying but not much more. I have a long list of places to try...
My mother was busier using the local newsletter as a weapon of mass psychological destruction. She didn't just edit the "Village Hall Improvements" section; she weaponized the narrative to suit her own shifting moods. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
Yep, exactly. They went a bit dead round Christmas too, citing a 'family emergency' and saying they were still in business. But nothing since then. I understand these mags are on a shoestring etc. but actually telling people they're going out of business or taking a break would be helpful.
Anyone having any dealings with Macabre Magazine (formerly Dark Harbor)? They accepted a piece of mine at Christmas but haven't responded to emails since or updated their website since October. I'm assuming they're dead in the water now.... unless I hear different? #horror #writingcommunity
Cyclist Marc needs to impress friends in the baking heat of the French afternoon. But is the old man he meets going to help or send him freewheeling to hell? My short story will be on www.kaidankaistories.com podcast on July 11.Current project fupperynewsletter.substack.com
#horror #stories
My mother was busier using the local newsletter as a weapon of mass psychological destruction. She didn't just edit the "Village Hall Improvements" section; she weaponized the narrative to suit her own shifting moods. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
At some point, you realise the footnoted analysis of "how communities function" is just a very elaborate way of not saying "I'm furious my mother chose chaos over me". Theory is tidy. People aren't #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
At some point, you realise the footnoted analysis of "how communities function" is just a very elaborate way of not saying "I'm furious my mother chose chaos over me". Theory is tidy. People aren't #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
People love to say "they didn't know any better back then", as if ignorance were some kind of weather system. It's extraordinary how often "we didn't know" overlaps neatly with "we didn't want to know". #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
People love to say "they didn't know any better back then", as if ignorance were some kind of weather system. It's extraordinary how often "we didn't know" overlaps neatly with "we didn't want to know". #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
Loving the writing and glad I only discovered it when it was all there to binge.
It's easy to dunk on villagers for their petty grudges and cowardice. So I have done. Read more. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
It's easy to dunk on villagers for their petty grudges and cowardice. So I have done. Read more. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
"Inadvertent ignorance" is a nice phrase, isn't it. Sounds passive, harmless, like a side effect. But you have to work pretty hard not to notice a bomb going off in your own metaphorical village hall. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
"Inadvertent ignorance" is a nice phrase, isn't it. Sounds passive, harmless, like a side effect. But you have to work pretty hard not to notice a bomb going off in your own metaphorical village hall. #crime #thriller #books #readingcommunity
Read: Villager by Tom Cox 📚Portrait of a village, seen partly through the eyes of the village, circling through time, space and points of view. Rich and enrichening and humane. #booksky #books
