Tales Of The Gurrier

The Von Carrot Family
Testing photo posting from the new camera phone.
Picked this odd postcard up in IMMA last year.

The tents in the desert flexed and tore against the rough wooden pegs that pinned them to the parched earth. Ill winds blew down from the bleached mountaintop to pierce the coarse hemp canvas and chill the dreams of the sleeping children within. The tribe who had gathered in the centre of the huddle of […]

Read The Bogman Pt I
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The black Bedford burst from the undergrowth of the class C trunk road to Ballygroate in a cloud of broken branches and black diesel smoke. Pausing momentarily at a fork in the road Loinseach, the driver, sniffed the air cautiously in contemplation, before hauling the massive steering wheel to the […]

Oh children, soon is the hour. The beast, he slumps towards the end of us in low crotched, distressed denim and spiky, stickyback hair. Here, here is how he will come. Dressed in the clothes of our children and with waxy gunk slapped upon his evil pate.
Manga Head - Explosive Putty. Yes The Brother is […]

November comes, the season of mists and lamentations. Far to the North, a scent on the wind. The Nano Beast has been sighted in the wastelands.
Yes it’s that time of year again. Nanowrimo begins in a few short weeks. This year, in addition to turning thirty at the beginning of the second week, I have […]

So here’s what happened, a couple of months ago, when I was on holiday, I had a realisation. Not the kind of realisation that you’ve left the kettle on or maybe you forgot to wear pants today. But one of those slow burning realisations that take years, decades, to mature. One of those gut […]

Ey up internet. Being self employed, one must seize opportunities with both sweaty hands when they present themselves. To that end, I have been working like the divil and neglecting my other pursuits.
So here’s a quick one for you, Dailylit.com. They send you books by email. Choose from a large selection of public domain works, […]