Archive for 2006/06


Louis de Bernieres on loving Greece

A slow week here. Too hot to do anything except sit in an air-conditioned room and browse news archives. Which is where I found an article written by Louis de Bernieres and published in The Observer in March last year. De Bernieres talks about how Greece ‘wounds’ him. He’s referring to the Seferis poem - “Wherever […]

The simple pleasures of rustication

I planted sunflower seeds a couple of months ago.
The first of the lot are almost done.
Yesterday:

Today:

  

Williams and Morrow - The rock’n'roll noirists in Bullet 6

Two charming gentlemen, Mr Charlie Williams and Mr Christopher Morrow, have stories in this issue of Bullet Magazine….

More info at Bullet Magazine online.

  

See You Next Tuesday - The Sex-Themed Anthology of Short Stories…

…is out now.

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About See You Next Tuesday:
The recipe for our new anthology is simple: Sex, 50 stories, 1,000 words each, written by 50 authors from all over the globe. A scandalous fusion of literary traditions, See You Next Tuesday is the exclusive and hyper-unusual mishmash of never-seen sex-texts, exploring […]

Summer Diary: First entry

A note about my summers.
My summers are very different from my winters.
My winters? They are quiet times. Free of social activity. Isolated for the most part. My winters are filled with reading and writing. I do some freelance writing, I do some fiction writing. Sometimes there is travel. Sometimes there are friends over for the […]

The Monday Morning Review (June 5, 2006)

I received the final proof of my story, “A Silly Little Thing,” which is to appear in the See You Next Tuesday anthology of short sex-themed stories. What a riot!
Here’s the opening paragraph of my story:
Iris fell in love with George because he didn’t let cybersex interfere with his punctuation or grammar. He always typed […]