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Ladybird's Well-Loved Tales DeconstructedOne of the many ways that the internet is cruel and annoying in a “pissing down your back and telling you it’s raining” way is that, at the very same time as ruining people’s attention spans and preventing them from concentrating properly on books, it is constantly reminding us…
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Some Things That Are And Have Been HappeningThank you for subscribing to my Substack. Generally it’s more of a new writing newsletter than an actual news newsletter but sometimes quite a few things are going on, and/or being given away, and now is one of those times, so I wanted to tell you about those things.
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NATIVE TONGUE (new fiction)Most of the posts here have been free but today’s - a short story I wrote a few weeks ago - is for paying subscribers. If you’d like to upgrade to a paid subscription, there’s a cut price rate for 12 months, and I have some original art by my mum, Jo, to send out to the next few…
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BONESPeople always ask you if you’re lost if they live in a place and see that you’re in the place too and you’re looking at a map. It can be socially tricky for someone like me who walks a lot, loves maps, is quite proud of his sense of direction and likes to plan his own routes…
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