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Scripture for Today: Isman 2:13

"For verily I say unto you; till Heaven and Earth both pass; one gin gimlet shall in no wise pass through anywhere, but my own lips." "Nor your lips… nor thine,...

Read what the critics are saying about my latest book, “The Third Gender: Tetrominoes”

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On the appreciation of drinking tea with friends

I try not to complain, but the problem with having my desk in the hottest room in the house is that it's also the coldest room in the house. Because it's the on...

Down and under in the subway and powerless

Trapped in the subway after hours. Can’t get out. Lost my ticket and now I can’t get out. I try banging on the window of the information desk, but the guards ha...

An open letter to the mongrel who cut the brakes on the community bike outside my house last week

In his short stay on this planet, man has achieved much. Man built aqueducts to ferry water from hither to thither. Man took Malus sylvestris, the wild wood app...

Gg Kk 9: Fumigate

I woke with a smouldering headache. I was in a room, lying on a compacted dirt floor, and the air smelt sickly sweet, lemony and smokey. I wonder how long I had...

CBF part 4: A Computer-Based interactive Fiction For You and Your Friends

This is part 4 of A Computer-Based Interactive Fiction For You and Your Friends. For an introduction, see CBF 1, CBF 2, CBF 3. --- Welcome back, Computer User 1...

Valentine's Day 2018

Ever since my father's untimely death as a child, I was afflicted by a speech impediment which manifested as temporary muteness. Often, when I did finally find ...

Space Company launches flying car

A company from the United States recently sent a car into space. Probably the car was already in space and now it's even more so in space, but this kind of peda...

CBF part 3: A Computer-Based interactive Fiction For You and Your Friends

This is part 3 of A Computer-Based Interactive Fiction For You and Your Friends. For an introduction, see CBF 1 and CBF 2. --- Welcome back, Computer User 1. To...

Gg Kk 8: California

On the horizon, we saw a wooden fence, the holes reinforced with chicken-wire and mud-bricks and adobe plastered on higgledy-piggledy, about two metres high. In...

Gg Kk 7: yard sale

We followed the path down to the clearing. A lot of fire had passed through here recently, but it had all died out by now. The path continued, wide, and as if i...

Gg Kk 6: palimpsest

I opened up the pitcher plant, and pulled Gg Kk up by his shoulders. "Let's have a look at you, then." His head-wound had healed, and the biodegradable stitchin...

Gg Kk 5: the smell within

After the sound died down and I assumed the Flingellans had left, I waited two days in that pitcher plant. I don't know why I waited so long. I guess I just had...

CBF part 2: A Computer-Based interactive Fiction For You and Your Friends

This is part 2 of CBF (computer fiction). For an introduction to CBF, see CBF 1. Welcome back, Computer User 1. The air is fresh and dry, and the sun is warm. T...

Gg Kk 4: cigarettes (freewrite)

The fire was dribbling down from the canopy. Droplets of burning plastic. Hot sticky mess. Dak Ulu started screaming a high-pitched trill, when he got some on h...

A Computer-based Interactive Fiction For You and Your Friends

Hello, Computer User 1. Today we are going to explore a computer-based interactive fiction, for you and all your friends. But first, some background material is...

A short pun as dictated by Gary the Gravy-monger, who comes up to you and speaks ill of the queen. Later he will be executed for his treason but at the time of writing he is a free man, speaking openly on matters of gravy and meat.

"As certain as gravy on a Sunday, those despicable beings who put gelatine in lollies will get their jus desserts."...

Gg Kk 3: cracker (freewrite)

Gg Kk couldn't walk, but if he leaned on Dak Ulu he was fine. At least we didn't need a stretcher to carry him. We didn't have a stretcher. We left the small cl...

Freewrite: paint

When we woke up, Gg Kk was acting strange. He had painted his body blue, apparently to camouflage himself in the forest. The forest was not blue. Gg Kk had lice...