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Dear Edgar #1: Metzengerstein
In 1832 a now former Sargent Major in the United States Army had almost reached the age he’d claimed to be on his enlistment forms four year earlier. Why he lied about his age when joining the army is a bit of a mystery as he was 18 at the time but while he was at it he also lied about his name, the recruitment papers stating it as being Edgar A Perry Continue reading
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Further Tales From Tantamount: The Ocean Remembers. February 1st of the Year of the Translunary Washing Machine
Originally posted on Meredith Debonnaire:
Original fiction by Meredith Debonnaire. Being a found record of Certain Correspondences between Tantamount-Newly-On-Sea, and an unnamed Airballoon. Proceed at your own risk! The following letter sent by exciteable carrier pigeon from an airballoon, given…
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Harvey Duckman Presents Volume 12
Originally posted on Ben Sawyer:
“Saw Dickens do a reading once. My God, that man’s voice does things to me.” – Holly Trinity Harvey Duckman Presents’ 2019 Christmas Special has been re-released just in time for the holidays, now folded…
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A special kind of purgatory…
I bought a copy of Barbara Avon’s novella Owl Eyes Motel in a fit of rage spite and with an urge to dress the balance of the universe a little because cretinous arseholes leaving shitty one-star reviews for another human being’s labours of love offends me… Continue reading
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Drink Up Me Harveys, Yo-Ho – Harvey Duckman Presents Volume 11
Originally posted on Ben Sawyer:
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Harvey-Duckman-Presents-Collection-Steampunk-ebook/dp/B0BGYG8ZK3/ A classic edition of Harvey Duckman Presents is rising from the briny depths once more with a new look. In the long-forgotten before times of 2020, a plan was hatched to concoct a pirates-themed…
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Darker Ages
There is an industry around romanticised paganism, its nothing new, it has been going on for decades, indeed more than decades, the Victorians were romanticising Britian’s past two centuries back. But there has been a particular raft of ‘cuddly’ paganism … Continue reading
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The Joy of Random Things
There is something to be said for a low budget B movie that tried it best to rise above the constraints of budget, hockey writing, less than talented actors and more plot holes than plot to have holes in. Actually … Continue reading
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Survivors cover.
Originally posted on The Hopeless Vendetta:
Hello again people! (and others) It’s a strange and interesting time for us. We are finishing up the final volume of the Hopeless, Maine graphic novel series and this is the conclusion of something…
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Blaming the Poor
Originally posted on Druid Life:
There’s nothing new about blaming the poor for poverty. To my knowledge, the same ideas have been doing the rounds in the UK for as long as anyone has been keeping notes on such things.…
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Confidence is a form of magic
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So much of what we do depends on having enough confidence. Day to day life is full of decisions – many of which we may not even notice making on a normal day. However, if…
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