Jimmy the Con

Flash fiction – Twitter tale – Jimmy the Conman who lost his gift. [...]

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The Morning After

Short lexicographical and etymological poem exploring various forms of a word sometimes used to describe how one feels after a night of drinking. [...]

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Robert d'Boy

Beware of Robert the Boy! Piece of comic nonsense verse composed around the word hobbledehoy. [...]

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Zelda the Zealot

Comic poem in rhyming couplets illustrated by photographs of a cat climbing a tree, playing in snow or curled asleep. [...]

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Mendacity

My RT round-up for players of the Twitter-based word game Artwiculate. Today’s word was Mendacity. [...]

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Narcissus

Narcissus explained: it was just insouciance! [...]

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An die Schadenfreude

In fact, Beethoven’s original title for “An die Freude” was “An die Schadenfreude”, but Schiller objected. [...]

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A Short, Inaccurate History of Statism

A tendentious history of (mostly Western) politics since the French Revolution in a series of twitter-length bites. [...]

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The Epiphany of St Callous

Further fantasies woven about the personality of St Callous of Acrimony. [...]

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Subterfuge

My RT round-up for players of the Twitter-based word game Artwiculate. Today’s word was Subterfuge. [...]

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