I had to write something about Stuart Margolin, who played Jim Rockford’s scheming friend in The Rockford Files. The story is a true one about a mad fat bloke who sat next to me on the metro in Paris and told me a story about the picture of the rabbit who traps his hand in the door that’s on every door window on every train in the Paris underground. I don’t know why this fat bloke told me it but he got spit on my ear doing it, that’s how close his lips were to my ear. I felt I had to pass this story on so I’ve done so to the fictionalised recreation of Stuart Margolin in this story I just wrote, entitled Me and Stuart Margolin.
June 22, 2008
June 15, 2008
Wufniks Magazine and New Story
I just had two stories published in Wufniks Magazine. Wufniks is on sale at the Cornerhouse and online. It is very good and has contributions from Irvine Welsh and Zadie Smith. Go to its website – http://www.wufniks.com
I finished a story today which is the second I have written this year to include the acronym OFSTED. I think I like the acronym. Also it’s in capitals so it sort of leaps up at you. I feel pretty distanced from the story. The story is called
Note found in Alice Ryner’s Locker during the end of term clear-out
It’s not good and it’s not bad. It is the most accurate depiction I can make of a love letter sent from a GCSE Examiner to a girl who took a GCSE exam. I wrote it with a Staedtler Stick 430 F. I consider the Staedtler Stick 430 F to be king of pens. I was writing with it a while back and a woman came up to me and said ‘Is that a staedtler? They’re good writers, they are.’ She was right. They are.
June 9, 2008
Stories stories stories
Wow! That’s pretty fast!
Hello. Yes. I finally got around to doing this. On this site are some of the strangest and most incredible works of fiction you will ever see in the next ten minutes if you stay on this site.
It’s all here, some of it published elsewhere, some of it completely untapped. Most of it untapped.
Do you want to hear about a man on a date with a card board cut out of a girl from a GCSE French text book? Take a peek at Hexagone. Need advice about self loathing affairs with house spiders? Tagmata’s your lady. Forgotten what the hell Benazir Bhutto used to do? She ran a fish and chip shop, it’s all in The Moderation.
Click on the links on the other side of the page or scroll down. You have that choice.
Look, read, comment, leave, in any order you like.
