Matt Owen

@mjowen174.bsky.social

Writerer of things, Leg Spinner, Tool. "He's a relentless gag machine" - Al Murray.

The most amazing day at middle school was when Robert Bales bought his Dad’s nudie mags in so he could be “in” with Gary Granger and his mates, but Mrs Slack found the mags in his bag and told his Mum who was the headmaster’s secretary.

If Chorlton is meant to be such a “happening” place, how come our local @morrisons is such a lousy supermarket? The staff work very hard but it’s poorly managed and as tatty as fuck.

HMRC reminder emails have officially taken the place of cock pill notifications and mails from Nigerians whose billionaire uncle has tragically passed away in a land mine accident.

The public execution live streaming will be preceded by an hour of Hegseth going all Purple Aki on the shooters. "Nice gun. Can I feel yer muscles?" He'll probably shit himself and come simultaneously when they fire.

Hello new followers! I've removed the paywall from this piece, which is a chapter from my novel Villager, told entirely in the form of an online village message board. If you like it, you'll probably like the book. If you don't, you probably won't... tomcox.substack.com/p/the-villag...

The Village Message Board

My debut novel Villager is the psychedelic story of almost two centuries of life in a moorland village, linked together by art (a painting and a lost folk LP, particularly), ghosts and social history.

tomcox.substack.com