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Published: June 13, 2026 00:48

Jane looked as though she’d been scoured with steel wool then left out to dry, or possibly dessicate, and that if anyone said the wrong thing to her she was going to bite their face off. Faces. Single or multiple, she was up for bloody vengeance. #writing

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Published: June 12, 2026 02:01

Phil blinked, doing her best to project, as one ex-partner had put it, a *doe-like innocence*. Said partner had then gone on to accuse her of looking like *Bambi’s mother on a bad hair day*, and the relationship hadn’t lasted much longer. #writing

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Published: June 11, 2026 01:52

“I support Great Britain as a general thing,” Phil said, trying to find the right words to put him off. “I can sing the National Anthem all the way through and remember all the words." #writing

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Published: June 10, 2026 19:18

It turns out the whole Time War, Gallifrey destroyed by the Master and turned into Cybermen, etc, was all an elaborate smokescreen set up by Time Lords fed up of dealing with the rest of the Galaxy and wanting to sit back and hide in peace and quiet. …

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Published: June 10, 2026 16:43

“There has been joy. There will be joy again.” - The Demolished Man, Bester [contains quote post or other embedded content]

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Published: June 10, 2026 03:24

“I can have lots of secret hidden motivations. Beneath this radiant brow,” she tapped it, “lies the goddess Athena herself, ready to spring out at you and...” She remembered that the relevant myth actually had Hephaestus taking a chisel to Zeus’s head to…

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Published: June 9, 2026 02:29

“I’m not an X.” “You’re not?” Jeffrey and Jane both said, in different tones. “Naah,” Phil said, aware at the back of her mind that there was perhaps a reason why she shouldn’t be saying all this, but not quite able to remember what it was. Perhaps more…

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Published: June 9, 2026 02:10

Angered at the rabble for applauding a faction which he opposed, he cried: “I wish the Roman people had but a single neck.” - The Life of Caligula, by Suetonius translated by J. C. Rolfe https://lexundria.com/suet_cal/27-36/r

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Published: June 7, 2026 02:13

Jeffrey was frowning over his brandy. No doubt his trained spy instincts were noticing that something was very, very wrong. Phil had noticed that, and she didn’t even have spy instincts. #writing

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Published: June 5, 2026 17:22

Just received a copy of The Iron Code, a David Gemmell tribute anthology, from Ian Whates at NewCon Press. Excellent stuff - both inside and outside! Just look at that list of writers…

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Published: June 5, 2026 01:46

“Whatever." Jane snapped. "I thought we weren’t going to discuss the school.” “We are mere asteroids spinning in decaying orbits around the black hole that is Grayne’s, sucked in and unable to escape it,” Jeffrey sighed. He took a gloomy swig of his beer.…

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Published: June 4, 2026 17:55

Ow. Banged my little toe against a pile of books this morning, and it is now purple and painful. (It moves freely and lies in the correct position, so I don’t think I’d get any medical advice other than RICE, but still, drat.)

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Published: June 3, 2026 01:04

“I’m just trying to fit in and to make sure I don’t look like an utter and complete idiot by, I don’t know, implying some sort of illegality which is definitely not the case. Or failing to know about some illegality which *is* the case when in front of the…

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Published: June 1, 2026 22:18

Happy Pride Month to all!

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Published: May 31, 2026 01:17

When your protagonist is supposed to be having emotional dialogue with an ex-spy, and instead she goes on a rant about the Elgin Marbles (as in, we should give them back) and the ex-spy nods and goes "mm" for the next fifteen minutes. #writing

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Published: May 29, 2026 03:26

“I can’t see her shooting him,” Phil said, defending the Head’s character. “Order the girls to shoot him, maybe. Or complain that they didn’t shoot him well enough. But not shoot him herself.” Then again, perhaps she wasn’t so much defending the Head’s…

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Published: May 27, 2026 01:35

Hotel corridors were much the same everywhere. The carpet was either banal or ridiculous, carts piled with clean linen stood around like obstacles to a future panicked escape (that might admittedly be Phil’s paranoia), and there were too many bends in the…

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Published: May 26, 2026 18:32

I’d like to see a treatment of the Odyssey which, when going into Odysseus’s traumatic personal history (as it would be bound to do) brought up Palamedes, Philoctetes, and possibly his relationship with Diomedes. He’s a complicated man…