December 2011
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“Now the master stirred. From his robes he drew a single playing card, a charred...”
– The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa, Act I Scene I.
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I am Two Beings
I am the memory of the blue truck
Speeding down the road.
I am the dreamy vision
Of mist on Autumn fields.
I am that thing which once
Sledged through the snow.
I am all that has passed before
Every single moment
Some are lost
Some are still;
And unfolding in time,
The siren in the distance
Where once I sat, a child.
I...
The more seriously I took things, the harder the...
Megadeath, A Tout le Monde
“She is everything to me - the unrequited dream. She’s a myth that I have...”
– Slipknot, Vermillion Part II
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Happy Christmas :)
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My Year in Book Releases...
Since its nearly Christmas, and therefore nearly the end of the year, I feel like now is as good a time as any for looking back over a year which has, its fair to say, been eventful. Various things in my life this year have happened, unhappened, will be memories etc, but mainly I’m thinking about writing, and novels. I’ve always written books, and I’ve always wanted to see them...
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“Into this wild Abyss/ The womb of Nature, and perhaps her grave—/ Of...”
– John Milton, Paradise Lost
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On Christmas
I
That single day stamped through the rolling years
That fixed point to which the swirling day peers
Which, for all the change of this universe,
Will not, amongst the storm, itself disperse.
Every severed year extends behind me
All scattered and drifting - helplessly free,
Yet bound together by the always strand,
That twists in solid bands across our land.
Buried in the year’s...
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The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa FREE to borrow...
So, I decided to make The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa available in the Kindle Lending Library, which means it is exclusive to Amazon for 90 days. Amazon Prime members can now borrow the book for free and read it. Check out the listing and read/borrow at: http://www.amazon.com/Travelling-Circus-Lacrimosa-ebook/dp/B006E8AQDI.
The Travelling Circus of Lacrimosa is still available to buy for none...
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Anyone on Goodreads?
I’ve had it for months, since Lilith’s Tears came out - but I never really used it, it was just a place for reviews to kind of…automatically collect themselves into one place. I’ve given it an overhaul now, though, so it has quotes, all my books, my videos, live feeds and such. Anyone else on there? Follow me and I shall duly follow you back - I am the rejected one sat in...
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“Like a pane of glass shattered too abruptly for even words, his home universe,...”
– Christmas Crossings
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“Every child has great ambitions. As he grows, he is bombarded by negative...”
– Sinha Shall
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“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
– Kenny Rogers
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Sonnet V
My love is the tempest that tears apart
Heaven. And scatters the parts of my soul
Into these verses of my shattered heart,
And bleak lines of days far darker than coal.
Agony is the poem of a world
Which has fallen to nothing without you
And from its dying face my spirit hurled
To blaze and writhe in Hell without rescue.
With no hope of existence beyond me,
I am lost apart from you,...
Last day of the semester today, so it is now...
This is good news. Started off easy this semester, then the work just built up. Now for some Christmas themed relaxation.
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Christmas Crossings Released Today!
My Christmas novelette, Christmas Crossings, is available for purchase right now!
“A solitary figure passes between this world and the next - drifting aimlessly until, on Christmas Eve, he encounters Santa Claus, beginning a series of events which transcend time, place, even life and death. Christmas Crossings is a novelette evoking the spirit of Christmas with a darker, magical...
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Christmas Crossings Sample...
If eyes had chanced to look up from sleep upon the world that Christmas Eve, a vision of snowed in roads, snowed in homes and snowed in cars would surely have greeted their inquisitive gaze. And still, the snow fell. All day long and now through the silence of a winter’s perpetual night, the snow came sheeting down to cloak roofs and gardens in the thickest of whites. Perhaps a vast cityscape lay...
