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I have been interviewed by Spillwords as part of their Author of the Month feature. This is a great honour, and I am grateful to all who have showed their support, and especially those who voted for me. Do have a good look around the site, as this is truly a place where words matter,... Continue Reading →
**Warning: contains strong language!** Some days are hard they're like swimming through treacle and you drink tea then you drink coffee then you drink more coffee then you drink tea again and you eat chocolate you eat biscuits and you eat more chocolate and its only caffeine and sugar but you're still a kind of... Continue Reading →
Time for our regular look at the Flippant, Comic, and Serious side of life courtesy of guest poet Don Matthews and his crew from Down Under: Don's mate Skip can be seen alongside the poem 'It's the Australian Way,' below. Meanwhile, Priscilla, Ralph and Lizzie maintain a delicate peace, as you can see from the... Continue Reading →
It's exactly a year since I started this 'Quarantine Diaries' series. I consider this a kind of 'blogiversary,' as prior to this, I had only posted the odd short story and a few excerpts from my work-in-progress novel. How the world in general, and my life in particular, has changed over this time! The first... Continue Reading →
Socerb Castle is situated on the Slovenian-Italian border, atop a karst cliff which marks the watershed between the two countries. This site of rich history played an important role in the Partisan defences during the Second World War, as witness the abandoned barracks, gun towers and the cave of Sveta Jama ('The Holy Cave.') The... Continue Reading →
And now, the time has come to leave the Southlands and once again and this time head North to Quarantinia. Following Erasmus' funeral, we returned to the Summer Palace and made preparations for the ride North. The rebel leaders mustered men and equipment. Palace staff ensure the vaccines were stowed safely within our coaches, for... Continue Reading →
Today Free Verse Revolution launches in its new Literary Magazine format. I am very excited to read it, and delighted to have a new poem of mine, 'Perspective on Youth' included in the publication. I am joined by many other talented writers including Gabriela Marie Milton and Ivor Stephen. It is sure to be a... Continue Reading →
The true poet does not look for fame orearthly glory, the true poet is not bound by fads orfashions, literary stylistics,editorial demands.The true poet seeks only the beauty in the everyday:the smallest thing the largest thingand the infinitesimal array of all things in between. The true poet is grateful for the mutability of life contrasted with the... Continue Reading →
I have noticed after doing this for 10 weeks that the poems seem to fall into different patterns, or 'themes,' every week. This has not been deliberate on my part, but it is interesting to note. Looking back, it appears that this week's theme was self-analysis, appropriately enough: https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1367724220281724929 https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1368145466135838722 https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1368504281838592000 https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1368877962670596096 https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1369207238909394946 https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1369574827980427266 https://twitter.com/Experimentsinfc/status/1370020031812100098... Continue Reading →
Ten years since the tsunamibroke upon Japantearing apart familiesnot all saved, who ran: on this day a tearfor his daughter ten years gonewishing she was here. © Experimentsinfiction 2021, All Rights Reserved This morning I read about the ten-year anniversary of the tsunami which hit Japan costing 18,500 lives and triggering a nuclear meltdown at... Continue Reading →
Experiments in Fiction 