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Its not such a clever thing to treat trees like trinkets, but this one became a tourist attraction, and tourism, of course, often kills what it loves.
I’ve been thinking about genre again, pondering Romance and horror as two sides of a coin. I compared notes* with a friend who reads a lot of horror, and we were surprised how much they served as mirrors. One imagines the worst that...
We hope you have a marvelous weekend of fun and games, and then naps afterwards. Rock on, and elbows up! The WB
Sunday 21st June 2026 It’s another splendid book from Keith Shayshutt about buses in his beloved Cornwall. This one is highly topical charting the ups and downs, of which there were many, of Western National and First Kernow but in...
Today we come to the end (for the time being) of my series shining a light into the crime fiction reviews of Anthony Shaffer, which appeared in London Mystery Magazine. This post will look at some of the reviews he wrote for the...
…also don’t tell lies. But I’m getting ahead of myself already. I keep running into people online who openly say that they use AI to do their writing for them. Now, technically, they may say they use AI to “help” their writing. It...
JOHN GREGORY BETANCOURT “Pit and the Princess.” First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 2014, Not reprinted or collected. Peter (Pit) Geller is what;s called a fixer, and he works primarily for a mob boss in...
“Write a story that will give a few bigots the jolt they need. Write a story that will open the eyes of the unconsciously bigoted” (8). Chandler Davis (1926-2022) strikes a fascinating figure. He was a communist activist, science fiction...
JOHN GREGORY BETANCOURT “Pit and the Princess.” First appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, December 2014, Not reprinted or collected. Peter (Pit) Geller is what;s called a fixer, and he works primarily for a mob boss in...
It’s Sunday, and it’s time for another “picdump!” Here are the memes, pictures, and cartoons floating around the internet that I found interesting or relevant this week. Share them far and wide! Screenshot Screenshot Screenshot...