she was made to hold a furry thing of claws and nails and blood. no wonder she was not happy.
Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 24h agoCabinet card from my collection. It doesn’t really look like anyone was enjoying picture day. 
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creator of things: novels•prose poetry•shorts•spoken word performer• bookseller. http://linktr.ee/slamfitzsimons stephenfitzsimons.com
Cats of Yore@catsofyore.bsky.social · 24h agoi still don’t know how blusky works and I’ve given up trying
1) Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy 2) Too many to choose. ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ by Max Porter would be in there. And ‘Too Loud A Solitude’ by Bobumil Hrabel. 3) Experimental 4) Fiction, Writing, Poetry. 5) @allgoodbookshop.co.uk 6) ‘The Naked Lunch,’ ‘The Mulai.’ Finished. I tend to
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got too much into my book so it is 3am and i think i should sleep. sleep interrupts reading and writing. after food and toileting; all are annoying. books and writing for me.
1) Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy 2) Too many to choose. ‘Grief Is The Thing With Feathers’ by Max Porter would be in there. And ‘Too Loud A Solitude’ by Bobumil Hrabel. 3) Experimental 4) Fiction, Writing, Poetry. 5) @allgoodbookshop.co.uk 6) ‘The Naked Lunch,’ ‘The Mulai.’ Finished. I tend to
Mo 🌸📚@moplayspoke.bsky.social · 2d ago1 like = 1 book question 📚💙
there is no question about the inequality of wealth in England. it is grosser than in any European country, and you have to only look down the nearest street to see it. - George Orwell nothing changes. it just continues and grows. the 7:84 theatre groups name in the 70s stemmed from financial
the hanging judge…is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape. - G Orwell But what do we do in a time when judges like Mr Justice Johnson can rule
the English are not gifted artistically. they are not as musical as the Germans and Italians, painting and sculpture have never flourished in England as they have in France. Another is that, as Europeans go, the English are not intellectual. they have a horror of abstract thought… - G. Orwell
i tend to read books four or five simultaneously. yesterday i finished ‘the naked lunch.’ today i finished ‘the mulai.’ Started a new one: why i write by George Orwell. A nice 1984 Penguin Books edition.
i am a writer and bookseller but don’t hold up books to be special things. i will fold over a book so i can read it one-handed straining the spine or mark my page by turning down the corner or make notes in the margins should the fancy take me. books are to be interpreted, challenged, despised,
all writers are vain,selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery. writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. - George Orwell
it has been a bit of a couple of weeks. i’m trying to motivate the self by applying to do an intensive writing course although i don’t really have the money to do it.
my mistake on here is often posting without wearing my reading glasses
I have the dentist this morning. filling. I have very sensitive teeth so pain often comes into it. building trust between me and the dentist takes time. it does not help the dentist keeps changing as they leave the clinic. they do t seem to last long.
we looked to the river beds where the rivers once were we looked to the libraries where the books once were and we thought: this is something to talk about On ChatGPT
a lot of talk about education in this country and how to make it suitable for purpose so no kids are left behind. but none of this matters if you don’t find education properly and keep trying to do it on the cheap. maybe start by disbanding these large corporations called trusts
well i have a few copies of this anthology to shift that i appear in. its a collection of work by writers who attend verbal discharge spoken word nights. my piece in it is the first thing i read at one of these nights. it is dark but with humour and a touch of physical horror.
writer’s time when you are at school as a child they teach you that there are sixty seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour and twenty-four hours in the day. but experience soon dawns on you that the teacher lied. you sit in class doing an exercise in your book waiting for the hands on…
writer’s time
when you are at school as a child they teach you that there are sixty seconds in a minute and sixty minutes in an hour and twenty-four hours in the day. but experience soon dawns on you that the teacher lied. you sit in class doing an exercise in your book waiting for the hands on the clock to move around and say it is home time.
stephenfitzsimons.com
saw the odyssey tonight. good but flawed. it was almost a Hollywood epic but not quite. I guess cgi was part of it. Athe script was ok. some actors were underused performance wise. visually good. but dune was more a cinematic spectacle this was ok
i was on the tube and there was someone sketching pictures in a notebook and they were brilliant. i run a bookshop and we have an art gallery. I didn’t want to be that old creepy guy approaching a young female on a tube hassling them. Fortunately i was with my female partner who could approach.
the palm trees sway and i can hear the rolling call of waves on the shore. the sky flashes bright but no birds protest. tomorrow they will sit on chairs requesting crumbs from uneaten cutters. i will sip coffee wishing it was stronger. the day will be too bright. but now darkness.
the whisking frogs in the trees never shut up. i thought them the beautiful chorus of birds at first late at night. but a frog in a tree making that sound. yet to catch a blighter and correct them in their sex driven ways. u keep a Gideon’s handy just in case.
it is late I should be in bed but enjoying the silence of this place after a good few days with the family
www.theguardian.com/books/2026/j...
Dave Eggers: ‘Once you have a machine think and write for you, you’re cooked as a species’
As his new novel is published, the US author talks about nurturing the next generation of creatives, debating Sam Altman – and why he writes on a boat in San Francisco Bay
theguardian.com
a few years back i set up a spoken word night at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk it was fun but the hassle of making sure we had performers and an audience got to me. i enjoyed reading my stuff but the admin for the event wasn’t for me. i knew a one-man creative force who ran a couple of spoken word
spoken word (verbal discharge) was fun tonight at the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk a select but good range of writing delivered with a bit of panache mine was an extract from the experimental novel im working on it seemed to go down well tonight: writing up on ipad from the notebook the next section