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Category Archives: Fiction

A whistle isn’t always a starting sign

(This is my attempt at knocking something out for My Super First Day.) As usual, I awoke to the strains of Uncertain Smile by The The. I’d programmed it into my alarm clock to give me an almost pathologically positive start to the day. Who the hell wouldn’t feel uplifted and ready to go sign [...]

Dust Bunny knows best (part two)

Here’s part two of Dust Bunny knows best. I’ve an idea of what I’m going to try to write, but we’ll see.  Here goes: Have we started yet? I think I just typed into a different window on my laptop. There’s a faint chance that I’ve just told my mum that I have terrible diarrhea [...]

Dust Bunny knows best (part one)

I shall now bang out some words and call it fiction. Don’t think that this opening  paragraph is some kind of pomo meta-narrative conceit. It isn’t.  This is just a way of focusing my mind on the task at hand. And a way to suggest that something different might be taking place within the blog. [...]