Category Archives: amreading

A Rust Moon Rises

Posted on October 30, 2026 by Mark Hayes

May I just state clearly and concisely for the record, I for one welcome our lizard god overlords, after all they will probably be an improvement of the lizards we have in charge at the moment… Continue reading →

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A Slight Case of Over Geeking

Posted on October 26, 2026 by Mark Hayes

Forbidden Planet, The little store on Denmark Street, Continue reading →

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Autumn falls

Posted on October 7, 2026 by Mark Hayes

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. ~ Emily Bronte Continue reading →

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Nice Safe Cosy Fiction Involving No Moral Ambiguity At All…

Posted on September 30, 2026 by Mark Hayes

Shelley Adina is one of my favourite writers for a reason. I read her cosy fiction for a reason, the reason is that it is never quite as cosy as it seems. The good guys are not always entirely good. The bad guys are not always entirely bad, but merely misguided or driven by not unreasonable agenda’s. There are wonderful shades of grey, delicately hidden in behind all that nice safe cosy.

Hiding in plain sight like venetian assassins, waiting to catch you unawares. Continue reading →

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Blyton and Lovecraft

Posted on August 14, 2026 by Mark Hayes

“What’s the weirdest thing you have discovered today mark?”

Why, I am glad you asked… Continue reading →

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Dear Edgar 66 ~ Landor’s Cottage

Posted on August 12, 2026 by Mark Hayes

Becoming an overnight success is easy, provided you are prepared to endure the years of relative failure until your night arrives… Continue reading →

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Dear Edgar 63 ~ Hop Frog

Posted on July 28, 2026 by Mark Hayes

“I now see distinctly… what manner of people these maskers are. They are a great king and his seven privy-councillors—a king who does not scruple to strike a defenceless girl, and his seven councillors who abet him in the outrage. As for myself, I am simply Hop-Frog, the jester—and this is my last jest.” Continue reading →

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Dear Edgar 62 ~ Mellonta Tauta

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Mark Hayes

In Mellonta Tauta, our Dear Edgar imagines the world a thousand years in his future and writes a letter from it. All be it a letter not address to us, but sealed in a bottle and thrown into the ocean by its writer just before the balloon, on which they will be traveling, collapses into the sea Continue reading →

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Oh what convoluted webs we do weave

Posted on July 21, 2026 by Mark Hayes

Main characters are bad enough, but the incidental characters that hang around the edges get more often than not have their own lives that morph and change as they go from a one chapter, one scene, body with a plot point nailed to it, to someone with a complete back story and who has had their own weird adventures of stage… Continue reading →

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A Tale of Two covers

Posted on July 20, 2026 by Mark Hayes

This post may offend some people. To be fair I could write that at the beginning of almost everything I write so I’m not overly worried. However, this post will touch upon a subject which offends a lot of people, including me. The subject of AI art. Continue reading →

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