Children’s TV pitch: Grace Petrie’s Amazing Machines. They kill fascists, and they’re machines. This would by my son’s ideal television programme.
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My four-year-old has just coined the phrase ‘vehicles of prey’. Sharing in case the urbanists out there need a new term for SUVs and the like.
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I have a story in the next Fiction Desk anthology, out April 28 and available for pre-order now. It’s for anyone who’s ever felt divided, or who can no longer go to their preferred café www.thefictiondesk.com/anthologies/new-ghost-stories-iv.php
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My son distinguishes the animated and live-action Blippis as ‘without blood’ and ‘with blood’. I think we should extend this convention to Disney remakes.
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We are all made of stardust, but some of us are looking at the gutter.
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My son has declared that I’m a baddie and therefore it’s OK to hammer me. I’d tell him off but I know this is just what he has to do to win over Stevenage Woman.
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Another lovely Stories of our Lives this month, this time looking at kitchens. My piece may be a little grumpier than usual… storiesofourlivesnow.org/2023/03/28/kitchens/
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In my lunchbreak today I need to deliver a typewriter and get a bow rehaired and it feels like I really ought to complete these tasks by hansom cab.
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Due to a minor writing error, my son has just made his mum a card that says ‘Harpy Mother’s Day’
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Wrote a short piece ostensibly about the entirety of human experience but actually about one particular anxiety markstaylor.uk/fiction/2023/03/a-quick-look-back
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