Many years ago I came into possession of a signed picture of Terry Farrell. Terry played a character in the Star Trek series Deep Space Nine. I had actually interviewed her on the telephone earlier that year and asked her such probing questions as, “What’s your favourite drink?”. It was Diet Coke, for reference. But [...]
Archive for April, 2010
24 hour framing
Posted in Articles on April 19, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Your hair
Posted in Fiction, Short on April 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Lucy sits in the bar watching you talk. Each time you move your hands, I see Lucy’s eyes flick to your fingertips. She looks as though she isn’t looking, you won’t notice. But she keeps checking. You push your right hand through your hair, and I see Lucy sigh and look away. What does she [...]
Auto Antonyms
Posted in Articles on April 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »
An archive article at long last, we haven’t seen one of those in a while ironically. In these articles I take a look back at a thing from gamboling of yesteryear – this time Auto Antonyms. Auto Antonyms are words which have at least two meanings which contradict each other. An ideal example of this [...]
Optiplex superhero
Posted in Articles on April 14, 2010 | 3 Comments »
When casting about for something to write for the site I tend to scan through my notebook. Today I was a bit surprised to find this nugget: Optiplex superhero without superpowers except he can shoot yellow beams out of his eyes. Controlled experiment with eyepatch. Doesn’t light things up – useless in dark. Placebo effect. [...]
…Is Away
Posted in Articles on April 12, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When I were a lad you didn’t have the internet… Well you might have if you were one of the five government scientists who were keeping it all locked up before they all decided to relax, chill out, let their hair down and distribute some of those lovely IP addresses. And in those days they [...]
