It’s somehow March 2017 already—time, as They Might Be Giants so accurately said, is marching on (and now I’m even older). But I just can’t quite let 2016 go until I’ve rounded up my most favourite short fiction published in it. So what follows is my favourite short fiction from 2016, with a link to the reviews […]
What the fuck. No, seriously: what the fuck. 2016 really keeps outdoing itself. (Or should I say that the racist shitbabies of the world really keep outdoing themselves in their protracted, spoilt, attention-seeking tantrum that fucked the UK out of the EU and has now anointed President-elect Fuckface von Clownstick? Well fucking done, babies. Not only […]
It’s truly autumn in my little corner of the UK now. The leaves have turned and fallen, the conkers have past, and I’m breaking out my box of scarves. This morning, I was walking through the churchyard behind my flat, crunching through red and gold leaves, when a black cat crossed my path. It was the Hallowe’eniest […]
Legend has it that Socrates said: ‘the unexamined life isn’t worth living’. Taking this dubious aphorism to heart, as was ever my wont, this past December I decided that the new year would be a good time to finally start logging my reading. I’m going to further break down the demographics of everything I read in another post, for now here’s […]