Category Archives: opinion

Referendums, Brexit, and we the people…

Posted on June 28, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Why do we have a parliament? Why not just put everything to a referendum? Let the people decide like they did with the EU? This may seem like a strange set of questions to ask, but someone, somewhere, is asking … Continue reading →

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#Yourenext book review

Posted on May 12, 2016 by Mark Hayes

What the scariest monster you have ever seen or read about in horror fiction. Werewolves? Vampires? Zombies? Old tentacle face himself Cuthulu? Pennywise from IT? Pinhead? Maybe old school Frankensteins corpse gave life… It doesn’t matter because all those answers are inevitably … Continue reading →

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Write What You Want

Posted on April 27, 2016 by Mark Hayes

As happens probably too often, on social media I found myself ranting a little over a shared post. Though in this case for once, it was not a post about politics, racism, dyslexia, homophobia or anything else on the worthy, or … Continue reading →

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Depression, talking about it

Posted on March 31, 2016 by Mark Hayes

Depression is not a natural subject for me to write about because I have suffered from it more than once in my adult life. It’s not a subject I find easy to talk about in general, less still when it … Continue reading →

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Play like a girl, spit out the blood and carry on

Posted on February 15, 2016 by Mark Hayes

There is a culture some parts of the gaming community of bullying and sexism, based on the simple, but entirely wrong, perception. That perception is that girls don’t play video games well. More to the point the perception that they … Continue reading →

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2015 the year of the Renaissance men

Posted on November 7, 2015 by Mark Hayes

Way back in the dim dark distant past. In an age when Mobil phones were for making phone calls but only a few of us had them. When the internet did not seem like something that would catch on as … Continue reading →

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YA fiction, the fiction of YA

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Mark Hayes

The indie writer scene seemed to be over flowing with Young Adult Fiction. Or YA as it gets referred to in general. In many ways it seems the in vogue thing to write in indie circles, at least if your … Continue reading →

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Terry Pratchett, Life is too short not to read Discworld

Posted on September 6, 2015 by Mark Hayes

+Terry Pratchett was one of the most popular beloved authors of my generation, I grew up with his books in many ways. I read the colour of magic way back in 1984 just because the cover appealed to me as I … Continue reading →

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Fantasy Armour vs real Armour

Posted on August 27, 2013 by Mark Hayes

Armour, according to our friends at Wikipedia is protective covering used to prevent damage from being inflicted, not an astoundingly difficult concept you would have thought. Here then is a real woman in armour… real armour  http://samanthaswords.tumblr.com/ As worn, indeed, when … Continue reading →

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