Car I've had this story knocking around in my head since a friend told me the bones of it one night in a pub. He was great storytell...

Self-Obsessed I have a number of unfinished blog posts but I don't feel like returning to any of them at the moment. Rather I am wallow...

Miss Lonelyhearts post nominated for Prize I was pleased and flattered to find my post on Nathanael West's  Miss Lonelyhearts  nomin...

Blood in My Eye To add injury to inertia, my recent bloggers block has been compounded by an injury received playing football this week...

I seem to have briefly (I hope) lost my blogging mojo but I did make this video/slideshow for The Knocking Shop's track Half-Orphan ....

Essay published on the Thresholds International Short Story Forum. The blog post previously known as Four Stories and Me , which I had ...

photo courtesy of Steve Pyke:  http://www.pyke-eye.com The Goats are Singing - for Dermot Healy. The news filtered in yesterda...

My Bookshelves on Another Person's Blog Over at Savidge Reads there is a regular series called Other People's Bookshelves . I a...

The Moon on the tide at Midnight. (holiday photo) On Vapour Trailing, an update. Things have been quiet around here as I was on holida...