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Hard or Easy? Exploring Autistic Influence at (In)sane

This coming Sunday (14th Oct) sees the debut of a new piece of music/writing fusion written and composed by me and brother Rick. It's a...

Flocking to the Creek

Fiction-wise, I have a few new incomings on the horizon. This is particularly nice as I've had quite the drumming of rejections recently,...

The Intake: Mid-Year Stats

At the start of this year, dizzy from gorging end-of-year ‘best of’ lists and trying frantically to remember everything I saw/read/played...

Taking Stock: July 2018

It's been a busy old first half of the year, so I thought it worth pausing to collage together some of the various notable bits and...

Reviewing the Academy Awards

Every year when the Oscar nominees are doing the rounds, I always intend to see each of the Best Picture films before the ceremony, and...

The Hillside Curation: Fraternal Mixtaping

Another day, another project. At the back end of last year, with a work-in-progress milestone reached, my fingers were itchy for creative...

2017 & 2018 or; The Mental Management of the Relentless Flow of Time

I’m trying to learn, I think, what is possibly the greatest skill of middle adulthood: the mental management of the relentless flow of...

The Shadow Booth: Weird Times, Weird Fictions

Weird times call for weird fictions. We're all looking over our various shoulders at the lurking shadows and the too-bright lights...

#100 Days of Writing (and no more days of admin day job [hopefully])

Full-Time Quietly, with only a little fuss, I've ov'rleapt the final cliff-edge and plummeted out of my day job into the PhD full-time....

Sprawled in The Pool: Adventures in RPG

Since the start of the year I’ve been engaged in a regular creative endeavour that has evolved and transformed all I thought I knew about...

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