Archive For June, 2010
Charlie’s father held the knife out for him, gloved fingers upon the blade.“Just the first incision, Charlie, that’s all I need you to do.”Charlie looked up at his father’s face, trying to make sense of the situation. His head was roaring, th…
It was the next day that he saw the old man for the first time. Wednesday morning and he was on his paper round. The blue house at the end of the Pallisades had a new tenant. Mr Winter, the newsagent had told him.“His name is Mr Trent and he’s requ…
Friend X has a proposition for me: do I want to be a supporting artiste on a short film being made in Brighton? I’m to play ‘mature lady at a dinner party’. Any opportunity to show off, thinks I although I’m not sure about the ‘mature’ bit. When I learn there’s nudity and tomfoolery with [...]
Getting back on track with the trawl through the archives for publishable content, I finally managed to get this one up over the weekend – Shelf Life’s cover of ‘With Or Without You’. The clip comes from 2005, and it’s quite hard to believe that that’s…
I originally wrote this as a screenplay and I’ve been toying with turning it into a novel. Very dialogue heavy, as a result. Its set in mid-nineties. Central characters are not immediately identifiable but that’s kind of the whole point. Its a tragedy,…
Kevin-Prince Boateng celebrates scoring Ghana’s first goal.Photograph: Martin Rose/Getty ImagesIt’s been good to finally be in roughly the right time zone for the World Cup this time around. During the Germany 2006 tournament, I was still in Japan and …
And so it came to be that your heroine, Groupie for the Underdog, was to search for another job. Back on the job market, scared and alone, she pulled on her special Interview Trousers, so named because at the time, they were the only smart(ish) trousers that FIT, and found that they were two sizes [...]
