Some of the articles kept from the previous incarnation of this site. These will be of an assortment of types of writing simply because the previous incarnation of this site was broadly-speaking an outlet for whatever popped into my head on any given day. You can read more in the About page linked in the menu.
I’m not a happy person. Never have been. The rain in this city has a way of washing happiness down the sewer. Splat! Splat! I’m looking at the door and thinking some unhappy thoughts – something like: that’s not the sound I expect to hear from a door – when […]
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Jesus and his disciples returned to the hills beyond the Jordan and from there made their way – with only a short stop at Jesus’ miraculous water-into-moonshine still – down to the land by the sea. Jesus led his disciples to a quiet area which was the most fertile and […]
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I am The Time Caterpillar! I am not of your world. Unless you too are a Time Caterpillar or one of the Fig Leaf People of the Inner Rings. No, you’re probably not any of those. I am not of your time either. I am not exactly like your caterpillars […]
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Comparing the various Bibles against the one true Bible – Old Wumpard’s Uncensored Bible – is an arduous task but that didn’t stop me and you can be certain it sure as hell won’t stop me now. Kneel down, grab yourself a glass of Communion Wine, and pray before the […]
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It was later in the week and my memories of the astounding adventure with the Leopard Ladies of Mercury was beginning to diminish. Everyday events were returning to normal in ravaged London and my mind was distracted constantly by the steady stream of survivors of the damage inflicted in and […]
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I’m not a vacation person. Never have been. Vacation people are happy people and that’s not me. Maybe there’s a market in vacations for people bitter at the world. Maybe that’s something I can look into when the detective business really dries up. Really dries up. I know it’s not […]
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“Goshdarn!” exclaimed Rupert suddenly. I froze in my checking of the auxiliary knobs on the backup knob panel, astonished at the exclamation I’d just been witness to. I was not the only one open-mouthed at Rupert’s outburst. “Now steady on Rupert old chap!” said Mitchells, removing his pipe to point […]
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I arrived at Carruthers’ domicile in the fashionably decrepit part of South London with a severe case of butterflies in the stomach. It was my own fault for taking a shortcut through the 1889 Lepidopterist Gala in The Regent’s Park; oh, but how those Red Admirals entice the tastebuds! I […]
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Before this precise moment right now I was a worker in the sewage system under one of China’s secret industrial cities. Let me tell you about the sewage system under a typical secret industrial city of China: full of sewage. No, full of sewage. Picture this: obloid tunnels a little […]
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I’m not a morning person. Never have been. I wake up like everyone else and I go to my office but the morning passes in a blur. I need coffee and cigarettes to get me out of my waking sleep. Alcohol too if it’s available. Sure, I sit at my […]
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