So, whose vision of the future did we end up with?

I remember seeing them for the first time. They were dancing around each other, all ill fitting trousers and closed eyes, like nobody was watching and they were lost in some distant sort of hallucination. I didn’t even know clothes could be made from those colours. It was my first experience of a music festival, … Continue reading

Sometimes, heroes don’t need a mask

It’s 1989 and I’m eight years old. I’m the youngest of three and living in a shitty, non-descript border town in Wales which is kind of like turning up to someone’s annual carnival of boredom, every day. My sister Angela is fifteen and dealing with the teenage years with all of the gusto required of … Continue reading

The Apocalypse 2: When it came, it came with murderous sincerity, shaking its posterior like a demented bag of constipated potatoes.

January 2155: Further excavation uncovered more terrifying entries offering a wider picture of why the world ended in 2014. NAME: PHIL WATSON ALIAS: WHITE PUDDING WEAPON OF CHOICE: UNDERSTANDING THE DEFINITION OF IRONY LOCATION: UNKNOWN The explosions came as the bell chimed 12 in a rapture of self congratulatory nonsense. Then, a deafening silence took … Continue reading

The Modern Man: 2 – A question of digital fun.

Hello again. I am modern man. My life is more exciting than yours and I’m going to tell you about it. I’m a digital diarist with a legion of eager followers whose lives are enhanced by reading about my adventurous exploits. My life can be viewed pictorially as well as in the literary sense. My … Continue reading