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Bright Futures: BitCoin Hurricane’s

Posted on December 14, 2017 by Mark Hayes

The future’s bright… Utopian in fact… No, really it is… Everything has an upside, even global warming, welcome to a future where Burgundy grapes are grown on the south facing slopes of the North Yorkshire Moors, and English summers are … Continue reading →

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Everything Must Go…

Posted on October 31, 2017 by Mark Hayes

Both my novels are on Kindle 99p/99c sale this week. Which I set up some weeks ago, forgot about, got caught unawares and should have mentioned before. Nothing like a badly planned promotional sale… However, that said, please take the opportunity to … Continue reading →

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Darkest Fears: behind the masks…

Posted on September 29, 2017 by Mark Hayes

The Last body hit the floor, blood spurting, screams dying, jeers and harsh laughter erupting around the hall. the stench was sickening, the incessant hum of the alien hive mind as oppressive as a giant fist pressing down on his … Continue reading →

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Scrap-ends…

Posted on September 13, 2017 by Mark Hayes

For no good reason, or perhaps the best reason of all, I’ve spent a listless hour pondering my way through a folder on my desktop that predates the hard drive. The folders called scrap-ends. It’s an apt description used as … Continue reading →

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‘Passing Place’ 99p-99c Sale

Posted on August 18, 2017 by Mark Hayes

Step in from the cold, through the saloon door of the strangest bar in creation. A place where causality is just a set of rules and the rules can be bent. Where no one knows your name, but everyone has … Continue reading →

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Nietzsche’s sister

Posted on March 8, 2017 by Mark Hayes

“God is dead” As a German philosopher of some little note once said, and for many people, that’s probably as much as they know about Nietzsche, the quotes. There is, after all, a lot of them, he is the most … Continue reading →

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Life in the Passing Place

Posted on February 17, 2017 by Mark Hayes

Step in from the cold, through the saloon door of the strangest bar in creation. A place where causality is just a set of rules and the rules can be bent. Where no one knows your name, but everyone has … Continue reading →

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War of The Worlds: H G Wells: Retro Book Review#2

Posted on January 30, 2017 by Mark Hayes

War of the Worlds is a science fiction classic by anyone’s standards. It has inspired comics, movies, more movies, other novels, TV shows like the classic 1970’s series The Tripods, yet more movies, most recently starring Tom Cruise. A mass … Continue reading →

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Worth more in scrabble…

Posted on January 13, 2017 by Mark Hayes

“England and America are two countries separated by the same language!” attributed to George Bernard Shaw, or possibly Oscar Wilde, or purely apocryphal, as its one of thsoe quotes no one is entirely sure about even the QI elves aparantly…. U … Continue reading →

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Valuing your craft

Posted on December 1, 2016 by Mark Hayes

How do you value the results of your craft?It’s one of those questions that’s always hard to answer, and harder to answer as a writer than, for example, as a carpenter.A carpenter makes a table. He cuts the wood, joins the … Continue reading →

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