Novelist, storyteller, songster, tunesmith - I just make stuff up. Websited at https://xitter.cf/t.co/FKIvzCiHNc
Not Tashkent, just Kent
Joined January 2011
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M C Escher at Somerset House.
Great works, but far too crowded. I thought tickets for certain times meant fewer people. Sheer greed ruined the exhibition.
#MCEscher #SomersetHouse
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‘I think kids nowadays expect to be treated, all the time, and are clueless about tricks.'
See All My Halloweens, a reminiscence and a reflection of my only childhood Halloween, in that land of Catholic plotters, Ireland.
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US group Soul Asylum's song and video Runaway Train featured photos and info on missing people - 3 different versions, I found out from this article - and an appeal from singer Dave Pirner to look out for anybody featured. Directed by Tony Kaye.
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When the online bank asks you a silly question...
I'm obviously too stupid to guess at what they want when they ask 'What will you do after visiting the website?' The possible answers are infinite!
NOTE: 012345678910 is NOT my account number.
#bunchofbankers
People on trains, a subject dear to my heart. A snarky traveller, a lofty train guard, a little academic. The vibe is culled from train journeys I took over Eastern Europe, but I hope the fiction is more entertaining than the things that (didn't) happen.
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A haunted jaunt across winter Poland. When the roads are covered in snow, and the car won't run on vodka fumes, take the train...
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My short tale The Visitor to the Institute looks at a lowly worker in a totalitarian government office, how he got there with his family connections, and how he sees his place there. It’s a bit of a comedy, of course!
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Get my tale of small-town romance and big-time intrigue and revenge here from Amazon: a.co/d/bj3De90
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Life and love and lust and obsessions in small-town post-war Pennsylvania. Weird scenes at the masked dance, opening the road to escape and redemption... for some. A flavour of #SouthernGothic
Get it here from Amazon: a.co/d/bj3De90
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My story of love and life and culinary woe at the wrong end of #Corfu
I Think of Ariadne when I Eat Hummus
Chewers by Masticadores – Editor: Nolcha Fox// Director of Masticadores: J Re Crivello
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The Ikon Painter of Faliraki egophobia.ro/?p=15576 My bargain day in #Rhodes with an ikon and a story.
‘I remember knocking at some old woman’s door, and she handed over the goodies then made a grab for my Batman mask.'
See All My Halloweens, a reminiscence and a reflection of my only childhood Halloween, in that land of Catholic plotters, Ireland.
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My tale Unforeseen Circumstances came out in #Plato’s Caves Online.
‘The virus was NOT going to come to my house. It wouldn't dare, with Hugh there, and his sad but fearsome smoking habit.’
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#writing_ie features a piece on music in my current novel, The Fortune Teller's Factotum, with mysterious guitars clutched by Elvis, Django Reinhardt and America's only Indian Elvis impersonator, Bob Shawadi.
writing.ie/interviews/music-…
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