“On Call To The Vampire”, Bloodbond, November 2015
A short story of mine, “On Call To The Vampire”, has appeared in the November 2015 issue of Bloodbond , a publication devoted to vampiric literature. I wrote the original story in…
Eugene Vodolazkin, “Laurus”
I bought “Laurus” shortly after reading this TLS blog piece , and very shortly after reading some enthusiastic pieces on other blogs, wishing to read it before I could form any preconceptions…
The tale of the Tomason part 2 – piece “Tomason and Thomason” from nthposition, November 2013
Part II of my Tomason/Thomason/Thomasson revival …this was originally found here and entirely failed to ignite any kind of interest in this blog I wrote for a while. More recently I thought…
The tale of the Tomason part 1 – review of “Burning Days” by Glenn Grant, SF Site 2011
In reviewing this book, I first came across (as described below), the term “Tomason.” I thought it would be something that would have cult status online, but Google revealed very…
David Szalay’s “The Innocent” and Andrei Makhine’s “Brief Loves That Live Forever”
While Makine is Russian-born (writing in French) and Szalay is Canadian-born, these two works have much in common. Short, but genuinely epic in scope, showing how individual lives were shaped by…
LINES COMPOSED A FEW MILES ABOVE TINTERN ABBEY, ON REVISITING THE BANKS OF THE WYE DURING A TOUR. JULY 13, 1798
Five years have past; five summers, with the length Of five long winters! and again I hear These waters, rolling from their mountain-springs With a soft inland murmur.–Once again Do…
10% Of Our Potential and The Search for Something More
I have been working through the previously discussed The Search for Something More by Peter Hannan and the various exercises therein (this image which rather I posted rather cryptically is part of another…
Séamus Sweeney 