A nice cup of tea in the morning
I can’t write without a nice cup of tea – or at least the promise of one as a reward. A quick review of my relationship to the Brits’ national beverage.
Articulations
Articulations: Examples of my creative writing: aphorisms, poems, short stories, humour (“humour”), (auto)biography, translations and more. Read Articulating myself for more details or scroll down.
My radio days (part 1)
Memoir of the first of my radio days, recording at gunpoint in a studio in Bulgaria. (OK, not really recording at gunpoint. But kind of!)
Not singing or winning so much
Not singing or winning so much. Lots of ups and downs lately and I’m feeling depressed so here’s a poem or lyric based on “Tubthumper” by Chumbawamba.
Computers, and my first in particular
In which I am interviewed about my experience of computers in education and wax lyrical about memories of my first Amstrad.
What is your earliest memory? This is mine.
This is my earliest memory – a memory of my father – together with a poem I’ve put it into. What is your earliest memory?
In memorium Lou Reed
In memorium Lou Reed (1942-2013) – a pencil drawing of Lou Reed’s time ravaged face over Andy Warhole’s poster of him as a young man.
As he stepped through the door
As he stepped through the door, the air was filled with the sound of bells. Joy, he thought. Joy! And stood on the top step of the short flight down to the street and drew himself up straight and raised his head.
Changing Guard in the hive – flash fiction story
Changing guard: What do the Queen Bee’s life guards talk about in the guardroom of the hive when it’s time to change shift?
On the clock tower – a flash fiction story
From the top of the clock tower you can see far out across the greavel desert and watch the setting sun. What else to do at the end of the world?
Time’s arrow thuds home – flash fiction
Time’s Arrow travels in a straight line before it thuds home, doesn’t it? But in a piece of flash fiction perhaps it doesn’t have to.