A word can change a mind. A sentence can change a life. A book can change the world.
Metabolism – the chemical processes that occur within a living organism in order to maintain life. The fact that you are reading this piece on my website, dear reader, indicates you’re either young, or, if you’re getting long in the tooth like me, then you have a good metabolism. Also, it points to the fact…
It was with a heart that I pulled the vet’s door closed and stood in the street trying hard not to cry. Willpower held me together, then I made the fatal mistake of looking down at my left hand. Her lead was there, curled around my fingers, dirty with mud from the last time we…
Addendum: I wrote this piece a few years ago. Since that time, we have had the 2014 referendum, the 2014 Commonwealth games, Brexit, the Covid-19 Pandemic, the death of Queen Elizabeth II and the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Oh, and there’s one other thing on the horizon, potentially yet another referendum in Scotland for…
Who doesn’t like a good wedding? Personally, I’m okay with a wedding if it’s held at a reasonable time and doesn’t go on too long. A wedding in the UK is usually exactly that sort of affair. But on days like today, when it’s abundantly clear that here in Cyprus, the wedding at the church…
A post on Twitter about not remembering a song/artist’s name has prompted me to remembering the times I’ve had music or songs I dislike going through my head, and not being able to get rid of them, sometimes for days. I’m usually pretty good at remembering songs/tunes/artists, I even get some right in quizzes, but…
Artificial Intelligence – AI It’s a subject that is creating great disturbances in the dark side of writing. The dark side being that area where so called authors are claiming the rights to a book or books that has actually been written by an AI app. Most writers will be up in arms about this,…
Extract from The Brittle Land, Book Two in The Brittle Saga Trilogy. It was the soft sound of her own gentle snoring that woke her. She sat up and looked around, blinking the sleep from her eyes. She seemed to be in an office. She yawned and looked around again, suddenly realising she recognised nothing….
Walking Away from Midnight Click on #WalkingAwayFromMidnight to see all available extracts Prologue The teenage girl stood at one side of the bed her mother occupied. Her mother looked gaunt, worse than that, her head resembled a living skull, a nightmare figure in her mother’s bed. For a moment she told herself it wasn’t…
Aspects of History: Technology and the Titanic Ned Parfett, the young lad shown in the image above, was a 15-year-old newspaper seller in London. When he was handed copies of the Evening News to sell, he also received a large poster that he would hold up to display the headlines that evening. On that day,…
Those of you who know me will know I’m a writer. So, you may deduce from the title of this piece that I have become a successful author in my adopted home of Cyprus. Unfortunately, I’m not quite as successful in that respect as I would like to be. Though it does depend on how…
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