William Meikle

@williammeikle.com

Wee sweary Scottish writer, living in Canada, with 30+ novels and 300+ short stories in genre presses over the past 30+ years. Mostly at williammeikle.com ... mostly.

The breakfast stove gave a hissing sigh and ejected from its warm interior eight pieces of perfectly browned toast, eight eggs sunny side up, sixteen slices of bacon, two coffees, and two cool glasses of milk. "Today is August 4, 2026," said a voice… www.libraryofshortstories.com/onlinereader...

There Will Come Soft Rains by Ray Bradbury

“Today is Mr. Featherstone’s birthday. Today is the anniversary of Tilita’s marriage. Insurance is payable, as are the water, gas, and light bills.”

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Chiron was known to be well-versed in medicine (having learned it from Apollo) making him the original Centaur for Disease Control

Looks like that Science Fiction Weekly site has gone tits-up. Whether due to author pressure or just an overload of their allowed traffic, time will tell, but it's good it's gone for now in either case...

Hey! If you were published at Daily Science Fiction, be aware that a site called Science Fiction Weekly has stolen the entire story database & posted it on their site. All of my DSF stories are there without my permission. sciencefictionweekly.com

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On a chronological rewatch of all the Bond movies... I'd forgotten how shite THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN GUN is. If it wasn't for Christopher Lee it would a total disaster. Gets my vote as worst one so far in the run through...

My writing view today out the front window.... Been a day of fog on the bay... mostly thicker than in this photie, but I like the 'creeping into the bay' effect of this one...

Fog creeping in at the mouth of Catalina Bay under a clear sky and a flat calm bay

Showing my age here, but I used to enjoy a walk in that park in the days before there were any skyscrapers on Canary Wharf, then a wander down into Greenwich for a pie and a pint or three... back in the '80s when the world was young and so was I...

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View of Canary Wharf from Greenwich Park, with the National Maritime Museum and the Old Royal Naval College in the foreground, 2009 and 2023. Both photos by me. 📷 #London #thenandnow

View of Canary Wharf from Greenwich Park, with the National Maritime Museum and the Old Royal Naval College in the foreground. This photo from 2009.