A villenelle, A pantoum, A terzanelle, and A couplet, in honour of Robin Hood.
The sky is grey but greyer still the woodThe nobles burn the hovels of the poorThe gaunt tree, scarred, yields brands to scar the good.When will the green show through the hazy blood?When will the new...
View ArticleBrakespeare Apocrapha - from the archive
SectionWord Count (rough)Chapter by Chapter breakdownCommentsPrologue17,000In which the Celestis are invited on a fishing trip, Scarrett’s head is recovered from a time-ship in the far future.Written...
View ArticleKaiju Post-Cards (Part 1)
I was seven when they started to appear. That was in 2017. The monsters started small. Wiggling pollywogs in rock pools gradually beating up the crabs and starting in on the beaches. Animalicules...
View ArticleKaiju - Post Cards (Part 2)
I’ve kept other post cards of course. Private ones, ones I’m not adding to this cache, not yet. These are my memories of our problem, in both its practical and theoretical guises. My sister’s the...
View ArticleSite announcement.
At 400 assorted posts, it's time to have a bit of a cull of the duff stuff, and a re-label catalogue of the best,so if you have particular favourites better copy them, this week.Simon BJ
View ArticleMenthol-mori
A skull smoking a cigaretteExpresses a benign regret,That having lost its fleshy coverIt's unattractive as a lover,However debonaire its ties,However suarve its outer guise,By which I mean its natty...
View ArticleThe Witches of The Black Magic Roundabout
Zebadee Zorrow brings you SorrowErmintrude Evil serves the DevilFlorence Fear sours the Beer,Briania Snailena, spreads emphysema,Mrs McHenry, causes chaos aplen'try,But worse than these, as wasps than...
View ArticleFlorence Apocalypse
Florence Apocalypse and the McSlaughter Of InnocenceSatan's Nanny and Hell's answer to Mary Poppins, Florence has been called in by Caliban McSlaughter, hardworking patriarch of the McSlaughter clan...
View ArticleFlorence Apocalypse and the McSlaughter of Innocence: Chapter One
SCHOOL: LAMMAS TERM: BLOODY MARYThe bats outside the Headmistress’ Office, were rotting pungently against the cork of the notice-board. The hand-forged brass pins fastening their flesh to pliable...
View ArticleFlorence Apocalypse: Chapter One Addenda
Caliban McSlaughter, winced as he lowered himself gingerly into his marble plunge bath. He did everything gingerly, always had, for he had been covered in reddish hair since he was born. The midwife...
View ArticleNew Brakespeare Voyage review on amazon.co.uk:
5.0 out of 5 starsWhat is time to a ship made of history?, 4 July 2014By Blair Bidmead - See all my reviewsThis review is from: The Brakespeare Voyage (Faction Paradox) (Kindle Edition)A long time...
View ArticleDOCTOR WHO SCRIPT LEAK SEASON 10
Series 10, Episode 1“working title SHATTERED LIVES”"possible title THE GOSPEL OF THE VOORD"BySIMON BUCHER-JONESDURATION: 47’10”10:00:00 EXT. SKY – NIGHTA star flares up in a dark patch of sky – turning...
View ArticleNote on SCRIPT.
In the post below, watch as I write a Doctor Who script between 8th July and the Programme going back on air for Series 8....in Real Time. Why not contribute in the comments: all ideas helpfully...
View ArticleThe Door To Null.
The Door To Null.Roderick, found the leaflet pushed through the wooden gap between his front door and the step, one day – although he had a perfectly usable letter box (of the European sort, in the...
View ArticleAmnesia
For a long time the Order of the Silence scavenged and hunted among the debris and detritus of alien activity on Earth: in so doing they made a lot of things impossible to remember. The next time...
View ArticleOn the Goodness of Daleks
Any sufficiently complex organism, has the simulacrum of free will - that is, it feels, its action originate within a gestalt formed by its memories, its present desires, and its culture: so long as...
View ArticleNotes on the Sibling Assault
To Grandmother Agonisties.A is not-A. Oh, yes it is!Two siblings Subject A and Subject B, hereafter code name UNIFORM NAVY, and CIVILIAN FLESHTONE have been seperated in time and space and each allowed...
View ArticleAfter the Hood
When he had taken his companion somewhere safe (or at least somewhere he hoped was safe) the Doctor reflected on what he had learned. He had been thinking too small with his thoughts of clones, future...
View ArticleNote on Script II
In the next week, I'll be writing the thrilling conclusion to my season 10 two parter, so if anyone has any notes or requests now the time to make them known to me.Simon BJ
View ArticleOn the role of the Doctor in the Hood Mythos
Thus endys the talkyng of the Docteur And Robyn Hode i-wysse doth stande; God, that is euer a crowned kyng, Bryng vs blisse ywthin hs promisse lande Old Ballard...
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