When Writing Fiction You Have Two Minutes to Grab Your Audience
I can tell within the first 2-3 pages if I’m going to like the book or not
The Pirates, the Farmer and the Cow
The spaceship settled onto the chalky soil with a judder. Pirate Captain Vash’s lone eye settled on the pilot. “Sorry, Captain. Scans didn’t show…” “Enough! Strren, prepare to capture hostages for...
Another One Bites The Dust
The spaceship took one look at the planet and hurtled downward. As a sentient spaceship, it was designed to recognize intelligent life. It’s voyage of millennia had found no sentience in the entire galaxy so the spaceship raced into the...
My Virus
I wrote this in 2017, three years before Covid-19. makes me wonder sometimes.
September Rain
September rain fell as if it was going out of style. There seemed to be no let up, day and night it fell until the fields were sodden and water dripped from the foliage in a sullen display that encouraged depression. Emma watched and waited, but...
The Funny Side of Death
Today, I found my grave. The family plot wasn’t used by the last generation, they were cremated. To me, cremation was too much to bear. But the family plot is in England and I live three thousand kilometres away. I needed to pay a visit to...
Hotel Creepy
The light dazzled me as I pulled back the curtains. “Another sunny day,” I said to my wife. She agreed with a sleepy nod. It was day one of our three day break in Protaras. The weather, hotel and food were great. But as I walked past...
The Clock Was Ticking
The clock was ticking and I had no time to run. It was either cut the correct wire or doom beckoned. But which wire? The red one, the blue one of the green/yellow one? Fate had given me this challenge and I was not about to get it wrong...
Captain Stupendous & The Sure and Certain Knowledge
The first day of school and Captain Stupendous sat on the grass watching the kids playing. He was on guard and ever alert for villains. Superheroes needed to be alert, ever vigilant and always ready to… “Joey Middlemas! What are you...
Betsy
The summer was almost over and with it my summer romance. We had been together for only two weeks, but each day she would be there, at the same time and the same place, patiently waiting. She and her friends hung out together and that’s...
The Life and Death Of Being
That beast looked at me, but I didn’t flinch. I knew I could look death in the eye and death would blink first. There was that instant, that nano second of uncertainty. Who was going to flinch first? I held my ground. You cannot afford to...
Did You Get That Houston?
“The beast looked at me with hate in its eyes. It badly mauled my left arm so I can’t feel the arm anymore, it’s pacing round the cave taking my measure, watching and waiting… waiting to pounce.” “It started...
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