Tag: The Bone Garden

    • Building a Life in the Broom Cupboard

      Greetings from the edge, Things have been busy here in the broom cupboard. Between the blog, the short fiction, the articles, my computer repair work, the library, and trying to hammer my D&D setting into a professional-looking PDF, I have had very little time for anything else. So I have decided to, rather than just…

    • Saturday, 9th May 2026

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      I’ve taken a short hiatus from writing proper for the last ten days or so, but I’m pleased to report that the wheels are turning again, and I knocked out a treatment and plot outline for my new short story, Rare, last night. It’s about a chef at a vegetarian restaurant who gets bitten during…

    • Tuesday 21st April 2026

      Greetings from the edge. Been digging through some old short fiction that has been mouldering in my lowest, darkest desk drawer, and, as it turns out, there is a very good reason I never came back to them.  I mean, I stand by the central ideas for some of them, but out of a dozen,…

    • Saturday 18th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Stick a fork in me, I’m done. The article comparing the novel The Silence of the Lambs to the film is now live. It’s proofread, formatted, posted, and unleashed upon the unsuspecting public. You should check it out. I’m currently working on the first in what I hope will be a…

    • Friday 17th April 2026

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      Greetings from the edge, I’ve been a busy bee. I now have about half of the Silence of the Lambs article written, and I’m still ploughing my way through On Writing. At this point, it feels less like a craft book and more like Stephen King is sitting on the other side of your desk,…

    • Wednesday 15th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I got some last-minute feedback on The Bone Garden, so I’m thinking about reworking it in a few places. The main thing I keep hearing is that readers want more of it. That suggests there may be more story there than the format of a long short story can comfortably hold.…

    • Friday 10th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I’ve been busy in the export business lately. By which I mean I have been exporting everything I’ve eaten or drunk with such enthusiasm that even Regan MacNeil would reach for the Pepto-Bismol. I have been blowing chunks, is what I’m saying. To put it bluntly, I couldn’t even keep tea…

    • Tuesday 7th April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, I had to be an actual adult today and focus on the computer repair side of my life. I’m currently in talks with OSAM Websites about taking over the running of Yell from my site, Rob the computer guy. Essentially, it means I regain ownership of the business site and, in…

    • Friday 3rd April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Keeping busy here in the broom cupboard. I’ve already got a new article in the works, tentatively about horror films that get scarier the more you think about them. I’ve decided to go for eleven entries this time. I may frame it as “ten and a bonus track” or something along…

    • Wednesday 1st April 2026

      Greetings from the edge, Had an idea for a new story today. I don’t want to say too much just yet, but it centres around someone who has been bitten during the early days of a zombie outbreak. They know something is wrong. They can feel it happening. The problem is that, because it’s so…