I'm up to 6 now baby! And YES I'm counting the play I wrote; it's not a short story but it's a STORY and it took LONGERRRR to write than any short story would, so yeah. Counting it.

About four years old

I think sometimes of the first time I visited England in 2007 and someone (British) offered to make me a cup of tea and when they asked if I took milk or sugar I said, "Black is fine," and they looked at me like I was insane. Which I was.

We like the smell of old books because they release vanillin, the chemical which gives vanilla its fragrance.

Sometimes I accidentally type 'I love in London' instead of 'I live in London' and I always think to myself, what a beautiful way to phrase it. Yes I do love in London. I live and I love in London

Some 15th-century rainbow-coloured beasts to brighten your Monday: buff.ly/2trZRus

Has anyone else noticed the prayer-like language people are using on Threads to petition the algorithm like it's the patron saint of social circles? (which it kind of is)

I read the word 'sillage' before I ever heard it pronounced, and now unfortunately in my head it will always rhyme with porridge

❛You should write, first of all, to please yourself. You shouldn't care a damn about anybody else... But writing can't be a way of life - the important part of writing is living. You have to live in such a way that your writing emerges from it. Doris Lessing, born #OTD in 1919.

Never completely understood the Snapdragon passage from Through the Looking Glass until now!

Please, friends, anyone have a spare £30,000 going? I would like 2025 to be my Mocking Bird year

Every book is a self help book.

Nothing ever really ends. That’s the horrible part of being in the short-story business—you have to be a real expert on ends. Nothing in real life ends. ‘Millicent at last understands.’ Nobody ever understands. KURT VONNEGUT

I keep giggling to myself every time the English/Welsh coded fantasy characters in this book use the word 'pants'

How could I say no to a deal like this??!

The phrases: ‘shut up’, ‘dirt cheap’, ‘dog tired’, ‘dinner-party’, and ‘brace yourself’ were all first recorded in the works of Jane Austen.