Shock and Awe

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Too many months have passed without self-indulgent writing, with no wordy rambling save skinny scratchings in a work-related notebook and the occasional sentence plugged into my phone’s orangey notes.   Someone has left a whole watermelon on my doorstep.   The eyes have been scratched out of a massive poster of Wil Anderson up the […]

Daryl

There was an older lady and a man sitting on their deck. They were chilling with a beer (him) and a glass of wine (her). They were happy. They sat for a while. The man turned, as the lady said “I love you. We have been together for so long. You have supported me through […]

Writing update

So I’ve finished a draft of sorts.   The novel presently exists as novella. Possibly because I am, foremost, an editor and can’t help myself: I trim trim trim and there’s not much left.   Three options from here: a) Leave it as a novella, and whack it through a couple more editorial passes b) […]