I've been re-watching season one of the new Doctor Who, and it is so refreshingly good from the newer seasons. Mainly because it makes sense, character's choices have reasons, cause and effect exist, etc. That is, until I got to 'the empty child'. Watching that I started to have the same, vaguely annoyed feeling of …
More spies
I liked The Spy Who Came in from the Cold so much that I got another le Carré novel,   The Looking Glass War. Once again it is very good, I might find myself burning through a lot of these... This one is about a different agent, and he so far seems to be surrounded by …
The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le Carré
I finished The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and it was not what I had expected. What comes to mind when you think of a spy novel? Action? James Bond gadgets and iconic villains with plans for world domination? Explosions and murder in the dark? le Carré writes perhaps the complete opposite of …
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Very short story
I accepted a random challenge to write a 75 word story about a duel at high noon... this is what I came up with: No shadows. Sun sizzles on my scalp. Lips crack, skin flakes red. Eyes blink sticky. My tongue is a paper reproduction. Resist. Cool crystalline water, ice snap popping, condensation beading …
Submitting again
I submitted that story I wrote on Thursday, to Fireside fiction. I fixed it up some and got a bit of feedback, but there isn't much time as they are only open for submissions for a week at a time here and there. Excited to hear back from them! I have a good feeling about …
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