The Nature of the Orange Rat
What’s the connection, dear reader, between fruit, the word black, the sea and Covid-19? Okay, I can see you’re flummoxed so I’ll tell you. The fruit in question is oranges, as in the in the picture above. Yes, I know...
The Healthy Eyes Have It
What is it about eyes. Why is it when we look into the eyes of certain people, we feel lost in the moment and suddenly your heart is pounding and butterflies have just burst forth in the pit of your stomach. Then again sometimes you can get an...
Copy Writing
“unless indie authors hone their skills at marketing their books, they are never going to gain an audience”
It’s All About Image in Advertising
Who said Image is Everything? It was in 1989 when a young up-and-coming American tennis star named Andre Agassi, on the set of a commercial shoot in the Nevada desert, stepped out of a white Lamborghini, lowered his sunglasses, and said...
Random Humour
If you hear a small noise, down below, don’t restrain it, let it flow. It’s only the Gurgles, those bubbly burgles, letting your gas join the show. The Gurgles live in holes in your tum, making small burps that escape from your bum...
Historical Fiction – Book Extract 2: The Brittle Land
Maggie’s Trauma Magda took a long sip of bourbon and savoured the warmth of the liquid, the subtle fieryness of the smooth liquor as she allowed it to slowly roll around her mouth, before swallowing. She looked at the couch in the corner of...
Historical Fiction: The Brittle Land: Writing Challenge #1
28th July 2020 Déjà vu – That feeling of having been somewhere or experienced something once, or many times, before. Translated it means ‘already seen’ and is quite a powerful feeling to many. Well, here I am...
The Coffee Ground Rules
You’re a bean of Columbian distinction you need to be roasted to perfection. Not too much, not to dark, you have to be right for those up with the lark. When the time comes to ground, do it right the first time round, there’s no going...
In Other Words, Where the River Meets the Money
Sometimes it seems the English language can aggravate those not from my lovely complicated land.
The Indie Author: Publishing
I know the ups and I’ve experienced many of the downs of a writer getting his work published through an agent.
Science Fiction: The Division #2
To his left and to his right was a sheer wall of rocky bodies, as far up and down as he could see.
Horror: The Dark
The Dark Copyright © Tom Kane 2020 This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are either the products of the author’s imagination or used in a fictitious manner. Any resemblance to...
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