I’m not posting this anywhere. I’m not promoting this (ha, ha) anywhere. I’m just putting this blog up on my site to see if anyone notices it.
You can’t be surprised if this sounds needy or egotistical. It’s a blog!
Read MoreTime and distance have become oddly toxic to our mental well being in 2020. I think the odds are pretty high that, as most of us welcomed in the new year nearly four months ago, we didn’t realise events halfway around the world were about to stampede through our streets and hospitals. Even as the news began to talk about China in January, we didn’t quite understand the scale of what was coming. Now, here we are, time and space making far less sense than they did a month ago. If it was a month. Who can even tell anymore?
Read MoreI’m trying to remind myself these days that horror is a many splendoured thing. In fiction, that is. I’m not watching the news, smiling a slow snake smile and muttering the word ‘beautiful’ to myself. I’ll leave that to the people pulling the politician’s strings. Surely there must be someone watching the blossoming groundswell of chaos reaching far across the world today and congratulating themselves. Before turning to Hitler’s living brain (now safely implanted inside the body of a gaunt, pale, asthmatic gorilla) and offering a deeply worshipful high five.
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