London torn. Night and day. Sinners and angels. Debut novel by Mark A. King, available now
Silhouette Sunday Religion never really died – it just moved on. Technology. Lust. Money. Fame. The religions of the first-world fed on the detritus of absconded gods. And so it came it be; Silhouette Sunday, once born of ancient Easter – a time of birth from death. In the sterile factories filled with embryonic stem-cells, …
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I was honoured and privileged to be chosen as winner at The Angry Hourglass for my story "The Soul Catcher". Many thanks to judge Voima Oy.
Judge, Dread You sit there and judge me. Perhaps, you are in your leisurewear, in the sanctuary of your home, with a glass of wine in hand, overlooking vistas of crumpled mountain and flaming sky. Perhaps you are on a bus, holding a festive bake in one hand and corporate coffee cup in the other. …
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A Prayer on All Hallows Eve I am but a man of weakness, frailty and betrayal. I kneel before Him, my cassock rumpled up as a sea of fabric against the shore of my weekend knees. I adjust my dog-collar with my rosary beads hanging off my clasped hands, like a modern-day rapper’s bling. I’ve …
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+ Include Surgery An aspirin a day keeps the doctors away They’d tried everything. Sharp syringes containing liquid colours from Barbie-pink to camouflage-green. Foul smelling pastes. Tablets they stuck places that tablets shouldn’t be stuck. Even surgery. Through their clumsy yellow spacemen suits and Vader masks, they muffled words at me. They said I had …
…hide from the wooden hill, and the blunt edges of every step that I have been thrown down.…hide when he drinks, hide when he doesn’t, hide when I’m the object he kicks, punches and humiliates.…hide in the dark places in my head, for there are no places to hide in reality.…hide inside this house. I …
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Metropolitan Dreams 