
Super short writing samples, musings, ideas both large and small, and the little ramblings of a disordered mind. Some fiction, some non-fiction, some... er... semi-fiction...?
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This is not an article about science. It’s about sci-fi media, particularly around the ideas in comics and superhero media. That being said, I need to introduce some concepts that have a bearing later on. I tried to start with the comics an...
“You… you’re a superhero?”
“Yes.”
“What’s your power?”
“I can calculate change at superspeed…”
“…”
“Hello?”
“Yes?”
“Uh… Did you hear me?”
“Yes. Did you say that you can calculate change at superspeed?”
“Yes.”
“You have superspeed?...
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Throughout my younger years, people were always dismissive of comics as an art form and as a form of literature. I was laughed at by my peers for buying and reading them. I have had adults dismiss them as useless, funny bo...
For starters - I am devastated… I wrote this out on my phone, put in a title, exited, and it said, “Draft Saved”, reopened it… and the fucking thing had only saved the title…
Well… It was a shit title anyway… I’m going with something else...
My daughter went to a writing course and brought back to me this idea that they had discussed called “bathos”. She was infuriated by the discussion and how it dismissed Marvel’s films and propped up what we both considered to be lesser exam...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
Writer, Husband, Father, Teacher, Self-identified Nutter... I write mostly small scenes and short stories. I have realised here on Substack that I don't write "microfiction" quite so much as "micro moments", some of them too true to label "fiction".
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