I took advantage of the good weather on yesterday’s Bank Holiday Monday and took a trip with my parents up to Howick Hall Gardens and Arboretum in Northumberland. Howick Hall is notable for being the former home of Charles, the second Earl Grey, and creator of the famous Earl Grey tea. The tea was specially […]
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#FridayFlash – Digital Afterlife
Aaron Thompson @wunderkind54 4dGoing out tonight, people! Anyone else about? Aaron Thompson @wunderkind54 4dClub so boring. Leaving early. Laterrrrsssss! Aaron Thompson @wunderkind54 4dMaybe I’m paranoid but sure someone’s following me. Helena Thompson @pretty_n_pink 4dGoing to St Mary’s. @wunderkind54 has been brought in. Helena Thompson @pretty_n_pink 3dCan’t believe @wunderkind54 is gone. Love you and miss you, bro. RIP. […]
Social interaction needs more than social media
Image by lusi A couple of days ago, I posted a link on my various social media pages to this particular article, in which it is posited that social media is actually making us lonely. Author Jessica Hazel points out that “we tirelessly tweet and update alone from our bedrooms and offices whilst feeling that […]
#FridayFlash – Dreams
It is Saturday night in the city. It is warm, and my window is open, letting in a cool breeze. This is through no kindness towards me; Mother has left the window open so that I may hear the world outside. This is to punish me for my wickedness. I am unsure as to the […]
#FridayFlash – Settling In
Thank you for joining my email list! Enjoy this super short haunted house story! The cabinet looked easy to assemble in the store, but Sadie stared at the instructions as though they were written in hieroglyphics. They might as well have been, for all of their nonsensical symbols and pictograms. She looked back down at […]
[Film Review] The Conjuring
Nearly every horror film that is released nowadays bills itself as “the scariest movie”, either of all time, or that particular year. It’s hardly surprising – after all, horror is one of the few genres that is focused on how they make the audience feel, as opposed to being clustered according to theme or iconography. […]
