WRITING COMPETITION 2022
…Read More…: WRITING COMPETITION 2022£100 for a 100 word story! THE COMPETITION WELCOME BACK to our annal MEGASAGA competition. Once again I am offering a PRIZE of £100 for over 18s, £50 for under 18s for the very best short story, and I mean short. 100 words short, including title! In previous years I have had the pleasure and…
Gone Away
…Read More…: Gone Away…some old news (I wrote this a couple of weeks ago before I got Covid for the second time, before the local elections which I lost, and it puts my teeth on edge. I am publishing it because there are a few cynical phrases which, with some human polish, could be adapted to work. Don’t…
DESTROY THE EARTH!
…Read More…: DESTROY THE EARTH!675th of XZblishl year 222561Deep Secret (But Not For Long) 1.1 Introduction Oh hail GREAT SKONG, CEO OF THE Aldeberanian Empire of planets! what a joyful day! It would seem that at last our agents have achieved our 1,000,000-year objective: the destruction of Human life on Earth and most other life too. This will allow us…
The Christmas Thieves – By Beulah Lee Harris
…Read More…: The Christmas Thieves – By Beulah Lee HarrisI know it’s long past the Xmas season, and I also know many of you did not enjoy it as much as in those halcyon pre-2020 days. But here to cheer you up is a story by the wonderful BEULAH LEE HARRIS, winner of last year’s MEGASAGA competition. I hope you enjoy it. It was…
With Love to Forugh Farrokhzad
…Read More…: With Love to Forugh FarrokhzadForugh Farrokhzad was a magnificent, awesomely talented Iranian poet who died at the age of 32 in 1967. She deserves to be remembered, celebrated and above all, read worldwide. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forugh_Farrokhzad In her style, this is my tribute to her, As if you lived in the dawn beyond my days Blowing kisses at lies Taking your…
Love Saves
…Read More…: Love SavesTwo stories on the topic of LOVE …because LOVE is all that stands between us and them. Between the Devil and the deep blue meanies. Because Lil’ Hipsy said she wanted to write something about Love, and I said, crazy! Me too. The rules: 1,000 words only! One day to write it, one to edit.…
The WESTMINSTERTREE
…Read More…: The WESTMINSTERTREEThe CABINET hath been RESHUFFLE! In their crystal maze of glass and brass The ruling class sit on our ass And giggling make their silly rules For proles and other silly fools To carp and caw in rank dismay As all their ownings are taken away ‘Oh bliss!’ they cry, ‘How joy it be To…
On Maybe Having Covid
…Read More…: On Maybe Having CovidCovidation! Yesterday I was almost overwhelmed by waves, bouts, earthquakes of nausea. Rising from my sofa was as easy as standing on tiptoe and touching each corner of my ceiling with my bottom simultaneously would be. As I am not yet in a prison cell, dispute all my efforts I have no chance of doing…
A Letter to Tony: IPCC
…Read More…: A Letter to Tony: IPCCOn a Local Green Party response to the IPCC Report Thanks for that very interesting analysis on the IPCC Report Tony. Extremely relevant especially the comparisons between the Green Party and IPCC interpretations of the crisis and planning for net zero by 2030. Tony, as a very unscientific person, it seems to me we are…
Will My Getting More Green Save my World?
…Read More…: Will My Getting More Green Save my World?GREENIFICATION PART 3 IPCC and me Today they told me, rather believably, that we’re (probably) doomed. The oceans will rise, the forests will burn, the heavens will dump the contents of a large lake on our heads….Darn! It’s happening already Today I learned That whatever I do It’s too late to defer The end of…