January 2012
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West Lothian and me
I’ve been thinking about Scottish Independence. And now that I’ve started, I can’t get it out of my head. Moreover, the more I think about Scottish independence, the further away from a satisfactory answer to my opinion on it I get. From a simply tribalist political perspective, the issue of Scottish Independence is fairly straight forward. If we lose the Scots, we gain ...
Jan 15th
May 2011
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May 11th
January 2011
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On the Coloured Light...
work continues on the novel. It’s structured in 7 discrete parts (6 in the novel, 1 to be hidden in the wild), each to work as an individual story but each also contributing and working together with the others to create a unified whole. Each episode has a different couple at its heart and each is written in a different style, from chick-lit to choose your own adventure. Each is an exercise...
Jan 4th
June 2010
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On The Coloured Light Of The Binary Stars And Some...
(working title) work on the new novel begins.
Jun 17th
May 2010
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“Magpie Jones flittered as he walked…”
– To Our Mysterious Benefactor available at Six Sentences
May 4th
April 2010
1 post
me/you
From the synopsis Me/You is a taut literary take on the psychological thriller, in which the narrator searches for the truth behind his best friend’s disappearance. Set over the course of a single snow-stormy night, the narrator’s search for the truth takes him on journey home, and simultaneously deep into his past. Over the course of the novel, the narrator delves into his relationship with his...
Apr 22nd
February 2010
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Feb 22nd
June 2009
1 post
“We sat hunched on the sofas, transfixed by the TV…”
– Death, Respawn available in the free download of the Best of Bad Idea
Jun 2nd
October 2008
1 post
“Every five minutes a bird mimicking an alarm clock calls…”
– The Alarm Clock Bird available at Volume Magazine
Oct 13th
July 2008
1 post
ListenThe Clapping of Unseen Hands - available at the...
Jul 3rd