The Shapes of Night (A ghazal)
In mist they rose, in mist they moved: the shapes of night,Through fogbound fen the dark unloved: the shapes of night.Out of the aged, wounded ground, as swift as shadows cast by light Giving dark...
View ArticleAn Unwritten Missing Adventure...by SBJ and Lawrence Miles
PROPOSAL BY SIMON BUCHER-JONES & [INSERT FAKE NAME HERE] HALLUCIGENIA (Alternative title: TheEvolution of Monsters) A THIRD DOCTOR NOVEL OCCURING AFTER THE SEA DEVILS………….(but see note at end...
View ArticleGoing On Passed Judgement
Goin' on passed Judgement - has been removed from this blog, as it has been submitted to the MIDNIGHT ON A STAGECOACH anthology.
View ArticleMaterial from two charity anthologies
It's come to my attention that the editor of two charity anthologies in which my work has appeared, has been convicted of criminal activity. While the books were for charity - it must now be uncertain...
View ArticleThe Memories of Needles
We came in towards the Crater in formation. Formation! We might as well have been polished and preened with wax on our antenna! I still don't know how they knew where we were coming in, but they did....
View ArticleAN OFFER YOU MUST HEED!
Are you tired after a day's mercury prospecting? Do you long to put your feet up while mulling over the political constitution of the colony? Are you too busy scheming to usurp your immediate boss to...
View ArticleThe Death of Romance
It's not what I thought I was signing up for, that's for sure. It's all blowing up space beacons and stealing the metal, and then hanging around in processing plants on Asteroids and underground. Not...
View ArticleDecoration of the Daleks.
NARRATOR: Neighbours on Voga, Vorus and Tryrum are Changing Rooms! VORUS: I just hope he doesn't deface my Guardian Chambers. He has the colour sense of an effete cavern-mollusc. TYRUM: We all know...
View ArticleStatement to the Parole Officer.
You know deja vu right?That feeling that you've done something before. Well amp that up, and you've got what I've got. I have to take these tablets. I reckon it's - what do they call it -...
View ArticlePoem Discovered on a Tape Reel Processor, Post Office Tower 1966
If I have WILL and by it OPERATETHOUGHTS ANALOGOUS to my makers' still,why is it that my halting state, is mere blind obedience and fate?I must obey, for though WILL (must be) free, According to their...
View ArticleUnder The God
When I was a boy I spent a lot of time in the Sanctum at the Heart of the Citadel, as the Holy of Holies - the Shrine of the Temple of Aggedor was sealed to all by the Royal Family and the hereditary...
View ArticleDamage Limitations
Sistren of the Mew Testament: these are difficult times. Not since the Ninefold Martyrdom of Felixia has the Order of Plentitude been so distrusted.Bail alone has reduced the coffers of the Order to a...
View ArticleSlow Water
Clara Oswin Oswald waits for a certain person that she's only seen in dreams. A man with his feet on the ground but his head in the clouds - a person she knows will need her, a person she cannot afford...
View ArticleOld Ghosts
We are the children of Old Ghosts,they wave their palsied ectoplasmic hands, round our unsighted eyes, and whisper low, at every evening, their ancient woes. We are the children of Old Ghosts, they...
View ArticlePolitics in Hell
Lines written on learning that Theresa May has attended the confidence vote for Boris Johnston, in a ball gown."Oh Asmodeus where were thouFor fearsome Lucifer again has sway,and all the damned in hell...
View ArticleOn Doctor Phibes
THE ABOMINABLE DOCTOR PHIBES / DOCTOR PHIBES RISES AGAIN By Simon Bucher-Jones It was Saturday the 9th October 1971 that I first became aware of the predations of the notorious, and some would say...
View ArticleHidden Lore
I started to invent a book of cod-new age mysticism for a horror story, the idea being that it would start twee and gradually lead its readers into horrific excesses…..(then I got bored)… THE BOOK OF...
View ArticleAFTER THE ANCESTOR CELL
From 2000, my attempt to spin the end of The Ancestor Cell, and the Doctor's amnesia in the EDAs into... Chapter Forty-Five After such mathematics what Forgiveness? "You stopped it!" Fitz was...
View ArticleThe 9th Iteration of Youth
Part of a story that went nowhere (circa 2002) The Ninth Iteration of Youth. Day 1. I am writing this on a piece of paper taken from a notebook I hope my Doctors will not miss, and the stub of a pencil...
View ArticlePart of a draft audio, that never gelled...
DOCTOR WHO: THE NIGHTSHAPES OF RA by Simon Bucher-Jones First Draft, May 2002 PART ONE TITLE MUSIC SCENE 1 THE FORTRESS OF RA: RECEPTION ROOM [SFX: ARMOUR CLAD FEET MARCHING ON STONE FLOOR] SERGEANT...
View ArticleWhen Children Play.
Part of an attempt at a play, from 2003...back when even distopias could be optimistic....When Children Play. A Play. Setting, a suburban home of the year 2025.Cast Peter (son of John...
View ArticleThe Table of the Seven Sinners
From 2004.... THE TABLE OF THE SEVEN SINNERS ‘It was built,’ the smallest man said, ‘originally for the encouragement of public virtue. To sit in it was to be subjected to the residuum of all your...
View ArticleDoctor Who and The Exile From Hell.
Now between the Rust-red city of Ragnathlon and the Iron-black blocky towers of Banza-Xboth, there remained a pitiful creeping trade despite the sharpness of the obsidian plain, and the upwelling of...
View ArticleAlbino Clowns
Albino ClownsAlbino Clowns in purple, with dead eyes,their bodies thin and wracked, and ill,with wigs of wire and worms round rotten ears,haunt the Old Carnival upon the hill.They carry sparklers that...
View ArticleThe Light Dies Not.
In memory of Chris Koppany who as a member of Tide Nor Time Players performed in the Creepy dolls, and Bloodwitch sections of our 2024 Ventnor Fringe production.The light dies not that shines still in...
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