Words By Me
Blog URL http://wordsby.me
Located Brighton, East Sussex United Kingdom
Tags fiction, micro-fiction, flash-fiction, politics, atheism, philosophy, short stories, literature, cooking
A Big Blog of Short Stories, Micro-Fiction, Flash-Fiction, Politics, Cooking, Philosophy and Atheism
Latest Blog Posts
- Making yourself go to the gym: tips for building will power on Nov 13, 2009 in fiction
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- 1986 Raleigh Record Sprint – My new bike on Nov 8, 2009 in other
I’ve been a keen cyclist ever since I was a child. I started with a little red BMX, then went on to a GT Interceptor that I thrashed around the neighbourhood on – skidding the tyres to ribbons and slipping across frozen rivers (this was s...
- Father and Son – a book recommendation on Oct 28, 2009 in
I’m reading Father and Son by Edmund Gosse, and want to recommend it to you. Father and Son is an autobiography that records a boy’s upbringing in a puritanical household. The father, Philip Gosse, was one of the blindly faithful, a sombr...
- Cavedad: How Fatherhood Made Me Regress on Oct 28, 2009 in other
Having a baby has done something funny to me. Fatherhood has made me regress – all I can think about is providing. I’m the hunter-gatherer. I’m driven to provide, able to think of little else. And I used to be so enlightened.
- Bad Packaging: Caffé Nero Waste Everything We Have Left on Jun 16, 2009 in activism environment
Dear Caffé Nero, Can you please explain this?: Why does a single biscuit need so much packaging? When people talk about environmental responsibility, social responsibility, global warming, carbon neutrality, peak oil, the melting of the polar ice ca...
- Fiction is a Waste of Time on Jun 11, 2009 in fiction
I’ve been struggling to write fiction for a while now. Since peak production in 2001, I’ve lacked inspiration. The bigger problem - bigger than the lack of inspiration - is my feeling that there’s no need for me to write. What does...
- Nyouse: Your News, Direct to Journalists (via Twitter) on Mar 18, 2009 in journalism journalist news newspapers press release social media twitter
Short version Myself and Jonathan Markwell - the industrious and philanthropic mastermind behind Inuda, the Skiff and SocialPlume - have created Nyouse (pronounced “news”). Nyouse is a system that allows ordinary people to alert the press...
