Great poster, but I seem to recall giving that film, like, one star out of four. Hope you're enjoying it more than I did!

A photo of me in a deckchair at a harbour café. I'm reading a best-seller (Beach Read) and holding up a post-card which reads, in Danish, You make a difference. I'm well wrapped up in a tweed jacket, wearing my old Ray-bans.

Snapped yesterday, out at a harbour café in town, multi-tasking. Yes, me, multi-tasking, a rare sight so enjoy it while you can. I'm both reading a best-seller (another rare sight) AND sending a coded message to my better half: You make a difference.

At what point does the dog gate-crash the novel?

Thanks for the re-post, Justin.

Mill Creek! That rings some awful bad bells!

Sometimes you gotta take it straight, no chaser!

A swinging ski-lodge! Sounds like you can't go wrong with this one.

I have a short story up at Café Lit today. The story is called The Fellowship.
Negroni is the drink to go with it (writers are supposed to pick a drink to go with the story).
This link should take you directly to the story.
www.cafelitmagazine.uk/2026/04/the-...

Photo is off a comic panel in which a man jumps from the ladder of a helicopter onto the peak of a mountain. This speech bubble reads; Made it ... - the comic panel is from Return to Romance: The Strange Love Stories of Ogden Whitney (New York Review Comics; 2019), a fun selection of Whitney's stories from the 1959-63.

Acceptance from Café Lit this morning. Now is a good time to send to them as they don't get too many subs during the holidays and the way they work is that they pick a story a day from those sent to them that day (providing it is up to scratch) and schedule it for publication.

Punk Noir Press The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

Punk Noir concludes series "Find What You Love and Let It Kill You," featuring fortunate(?) souls facing the void, committed to their love of choice. Authors include @anthonykaneevans.bsky.social, @epiphanyferrell.bsky.social, and yours truly. Enjoy!!

punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

Thanks for the mention, Meghan. I was hoping to read this issue (and the last) today, but it'll have to be tomorrow. Look forward to reading yours!

Thanks, Carlotta!

Thanks, Elizabeth.

Punk Noir Press The Only Crime Is Getting Caught

I have a micro-fiction, The Snap Decision (about 300 words), in the latest issue of Punk Noir Magazine. You need to scroll a bit to get to mine, though I'm sure all the stories are worth reading. I hope to read the mag over the week-end.

punknoirmagazine.wordpress.com/punk-noir-ma...

Actually, I watched maybe the first five or seven minutes on YouTube, but the sound wasn't good enough otherwise I might have lasted a tad longer. I thought the credits seq. with the caricatured characters was quite entertaining.

Photo shows my budgie - yellow head, turquoise plumage - sitting on a branch at the top of a tree-like plant by the dining room window. Sunlight streaming in through the bay window.

Pipsi - one half of the book club we got going in the house - is enjoying the spring sunshine so much that he is neglecting our reading, even though two books we got on the go (Evelyn Waugh's Scoop and Carlotta Dale's The Parrots Come Again) both have bird-life in them.

Just unsubscribed from about 7 lit mags today. Nothing personal, just that my inbox has reached the tipping point (I believe the Yanks have diagnosed this condition as inbox overwhelm). It's like every time we writers send off a story, we sign up for emails from the mag, naturally enough.

Sent.

Really like The Whip and the Body. Not seen this version of Wuthering Heights (a fav novel), how does it play? The oddest version I've seen, is prob. Buñuel's, which is set in Mexican desert.

Formatting. Do you just want a basic internet-friendly format or do you prefer that Shunn fellow's template?

One of his best books, I think. Also, seems more serious than some of his works, sometimes, but at other times, very typical of his style. The old BBC TV series gives you the impression that the book is going to be more serious than it actually is. I'm currently reading Scoop for the 3rd time.

Seems like a great way to get to grips with that labyrinthine subway.

It certainly is a very good one.

For my English writer friends, or friends who are resident in England, remember, the BBC Short Story Award is open now but closes soon. Free Entry. Big prizes! Last time I entered (some years back), I was long-listed. Though, that story simply cannot find a publisher!

... short story sub, that is.

Oh, wow! Big-time fan then. On a minor note, I've now finally got to grips with Mr Shunn's fabulous template. At least I hope I have, I've just formatted a book! So, you can expect me to bug you with a sub sometime this year providing our word limits cohere!

If you're re-reading it, then I guess it must be good. I've only read one Brewer. It was okay, but a bit forumulaic (from 58).

Abridged! Hope they haven't left out too many clues or too much juicy pulp prose. Or too many shoes.

Comic book panel. Text reads: And even when they passed each other in the corridors ... We see a young man and woman passing one another in the corridor. Both looking away from one another. Both with noses turned up in the air. Both saying; Hmfff!

Reading some funny old Romance comics from 59-63. Written and drawn by Ogden Whitney. They are the last thing I read at night, after a spot of Zen.

Oh, the opening of Moby Dick is hilarious! But this is a great book, for sure. I kind of think of it more in existential terms. There was a pretty good Brit movie made in 1970, which, even though it updated the story, worked quite well, I thought.