Do any of you actually enjoy writing? — ‘Increase your productivity by x30!’ ‘Write more articles FAST!’ ‘How I write 1 million articles every day while I sleep!’ Small question: do any of you writers want to, y’know, WRITE? Because it seems — and this is just an opinion, don’t come for me — like what a lot of you really want is a large pile of finished stories…

A short story — She can’t decide, and I can’t blame her. It’s too much to think through. So many thoughts, flying through oceans of dismissed criteria, and wading through swamps of pain and stress. What then? She picks one, and what then? She’s stuck with him? Forever? We all are? No-one can tell…

‘Winding yourself up until your turning blue / Repeating everything that you’ve read’ — Kaiser Chiefs, The Angry Mob — Warning: some mild violent imagery Hey all you hacks! — all you journos and editing wannabes, column writers, opinioners, struggling to make a name by destroying someone else’s — get your hacksaws out, need you to do another hatchet job to get some of that sweet attention. News isn’t quick…

The richness of the dragon’s body… — Iron and tin and copper and gold — ripped from the dragon’s ribs its belly its heart Its veins are coal that fuels the fire to make the steel and shape the metals Ferrous cartilage is brought into shining light from the dark of the pits Somehow, the richness of the…

Good morning, Anna Sinclair. Short story. — Warning: brief references to domestic violence and prison Anna rolled over, enjoying the brief moment before she remembered why she was sleeping on a floor-mattress. Ugh. Her mouth tasted like something died in there (no, Anna, do not follow that train of thought.) Someone was snoring. She tried to remember…

Do some people seem determined not to enjoy themselves? — I don’t get people who seem to find fault with everything. (No, I’m not gonna give examples — so if you’re here for the tea or shade, you’re not gonna get it. Sorry. But hey, stick around a bit if you like — you may begrudgingly enjoy yourself anyway. Or you can just find a YouTube drama video, I don’t mind…

A short story — Warning: this story deals with grief a lot, as well as generally discussing death and related topics. “Some people live just looking for someone to die for.” ― Dominic Riccitello Mornings dawn whether you want them to or not. The world should give everyone a break and stop, sometimes. …

…Don’t ask me, I’m just the writer. *Puts poem down* *Backs away slowly* — His ghost came through the window there, sat himself upon a chair said ‘oh sweet children, please be- ware’ (Please be- ware, Oh please be- ware.) ‘This life is never what you seek and if you live you’ll see the peak of happiness is while you sleep, before too long you’ll wake and…