Category Archives: insomnia

The Dream-Quest Of Unknown Kadath: TCL #52

Posted on February 13, 2019 by

So, here we are after 47 shorts stories of various qualities from the wonderful to the torrid, a fragment which should never really have been printed, a couple of serials, one fabulously entertaining, one best forgotten, and one novelette the … Continue reading →

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Blind Chance Theory

Posted on October 30, 2018 by

Occasionally things happen. No one knows why this is the case. Personally, I favour a little-known variant of Chaos Theory, BCT or Blind Chance Theory. Blind Chance Theory, which states that in an infinite universe, given an infinite amount of … Continue reading →

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Insidious horizons: Hacked Future

Posted on October 26, 2018 by

‘The future’s bright… Utopian in fact… No, really it is…” Erm… or then again, maybe it’s not as bright as it seemed in December last year when that jolly little quote above was the opening lines of a blog/review of … Continue reading →

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The waiting room of the psyche…

Posted on June 28, 2018 by

I am a little bi-polar, though that is not unusual, almost everyone is to a degree. We all have highs and lows, and our moods swing between them. the truly bipolar are just those for whom the swing between extremes … Continue reading →

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Nyarlathotep – a strange convergence

Posted on April 9, 2018 by

‘And it was then that Nyarlathotep came out of Egypt.’ It may be a sign that the end of times is upon us. Or perhaps just a sign that some people believe it is so. Or a sign of a … Continue reading →

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Questions of insomnia…

Posted on December 19, 2017 by

In the wee hours of the night, when sleep is a mythical beast and the mind runs over time, the strangest questions occur… Is it the S or the C that is silent in Scent..? While we are on the … Continue reading →

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NaNoWriMo: Or how to first draft…

Posted on October 6, 2017 by

With November less than a month away, and in the mildly self-aggrandizing of attempting to offer some advice to budding writers… This is the story of how I managed to write my first novel. It is also the story of how … Continue reading →

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