The little people – wee folk, fairies, faeries, gnomes, piskies et al – aren’t so much an unexplained phenom as an explanatory one, the attributed cause of much lucklessness and minor setbacks. Petty interventions whether positive o[…]

Both sides of the river are full of chicken shops, YESNO? In fact so much so you can barely go two yards without falling over a battered box of bones, YESNO? South London has many chains, independent chicken shops and KFCs. A particular favourite is […]

I have never been on a creative writing course. Though tempting, the MA’s at UEA and elsewhere have always seemed a touch overpriced: and anyway, I think I know what they will tell you. Inbetween the lectures on structure, first vs third person[…]

The original entry for this read simply “the wrecking ball”, a name for a freakish anatomical manifestation that once afflicted a friend of a friend and has fascinated many FT writers since they first heard about it. It describes a partia[…]

It was a dark, stormy night and as we tried to get home we hit a nasty bump in the road. My girlfriend, who was driving, thought she had run over a dog so stopped the car. We got out, but there was nothing there. However when we got back in the car, […]

Ananova misses the spooky subtext of this Unicycling Doctor story.
The doctor was clearly possessed by the spirit of the Robin Williams film Patch Adams. More proof that Robin Williams is the spawn of Satan*.
*Also quite spooky in his own right.[…]

i. you are on a bus
EXPLANATION: you are going to work or back home or somewhere and yr ROLLS is at the MENDERS
ii. you are gazin idly out the window
EXPLANATION: you are IDLE
iii. you are at bus stop
EXPLANATION: you are ON A BUS
iv. on the top of t[…]

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here is a slideshow about em
here is the “truth” about em[…]

Make mine a double
Dopplegangers have become confused in the public mind, it seems to me. In modern parlance, it seems to be much more ‘someone who looks like me’ rather than ‘my malevolent double’. That meaning still exists i[…]

Or Kraken’s in general. Lord knows how many of them could be down there. Thank the heavens that they don’t pop up, or “Wake” more often. Scary many armed sea creatures, The Kraken is the best of a surprisingly large number of […]