Good Reads

my ‘read’ shelf:
So I found this site that I am having a lot of fun with the widget for it being above this blurb — go check it out.

16 Flaws Launched

So, the first two parts of this massive project I am undertaking is up for your enjoyment — I hope you’ll all support me and leave me loads of comments to let me know what you think. I have something like a hundred and sixty characters to introduce you to and each story will be [...]

Back Of The Head in DZ Allen’s Muzzle Flash

Click the above link to go and read the lovely little piece of flash fiction that I have just had published on this great site. Once you get there hang around and check out the other work. This site has the big brass balls to publish work that other so-called edgy magazines are just to [...]

All About Me: Our Sister Site

Please check out our sister site — it houses some older pieces that were culled from a scattering of poetry and writing blogs and some newer pieces. All of it is worth a read and I would appreciate any comments that you have — there is something for everyone: poetry (free verse, haiku, sonnets, etc); [...]

Turn The Page: a suite of desolate elegance by paul grimsley

www.lulu.com/psgri2003
the blurb:

a suite of desolate elegance, the first collected works of Paul Grimsley, contains a mixture of free verse and rhythmic modern poetry. with 45 poems that examine what it is to be human and vulnerable; the eye of the I speaking in a universal voice. this is a challenging and lyrical collection.

what others
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Humour Is Inessential: A Refutation

Hypocrites unite and greet a moron on the u-turn. You don’t have to laugh. You don’t have to smile — just be a miserable bastard and you will get through this life as easy as if you made an effort. That is the truth.
Today as I slog through the wilderness that is marked at the [...]

Humour Is Essential

With all the people and the stupid situations with which you are faced humour is essential. Laughter releases the endorphines for relieving stress. People with a good sense of humour are generally people that you can get on with because mostly, though not always, a good sense of humour indicates a degree of intelligence. You [...]

a poem

number one
lying awake in an unfinished morning,
i thought i half glimpsed a truth –
no fully developed photo
or elaborate sketch
pen and inked to depth,
just something naked,
disclosed by accident,
and how to describe it?
wreath it in words?
surely, no glib platitude will do;
perhaps if i direct you
via an unselective squint,
a comment dropped in sparse humour’s net,
then the revelation [...]

The Words Awaken In A Sleeping Throat

I have only recently gained access to the net on a full-time basis and I have become tireless on the wireless. In between cups of coffee, biscuits and badly cooked meals I have been pouring out an unrelenting stream of words on various sites and thankfully getting back some good feedback. I’ve got in [...]