I am a good dog. I love my walks with the family. But Joggers really make my day. They wear bright clothes and jiggle towards me, arms flapping, legs akimbo. And if I’m a really lucky dog, some of those legs will be bare. Perhaps their calves will be sweaty, and I can lick the …
David wasn't always this smiley I love slow starts. I don’t want to be rushed, especially when I like a book. I want to be gently ushered into the world of the main characters. I want to spend time with them, I want to get to know them. And that means watching them in their …
Photo by Engin Akyurt on Pexels.com All stories have one thing in common — something has to happen to someone. The more interesting the happening, and the more relatable the character, the better the story. This is obvious but I’m saying it in case you thought this post was about Noah's ark, the biblical saviour …
I love monsters. Street art in Berlin They are everything you fear and all that you hate, poured into vile-veined bodies, with skin and bone and tentacle. With slavering jaws, salacious with drool, and gouging, defiling claws. Put your pent up angst into a judiciously described creature, and you have a monster on your hands. …
It’s not as bad as it seems Photo by David Fagundes on Pexels.com Aliens, horror, and existentialism are perfect bed-fellows, and as a literary combination, they take some beating. Existentialists believe that we’re born without purpose into a world that makes no sense, a world without meaning, where god herself is dead, and there’s generally …
As we hurtle up, and sometimes over, the mountain of financial security, we all struggle with our work-life balance. Putting patients first, taking care of family, being busy earning, whatever. No matter our background, status or role, I sense that we all share a sympathy towards each other on this. It is not easy for …
Picture: street art in Berlin It takes a special sort of character to be a villain. We expect them to be the counterweight to the hero, to provide the sense of menace and jeopardy and to use their dark light to reveal hidden peices of the plot. All this whilst avoiding cliché and at the …
Three things to think about when standing in a field Nothing Nothing Nothing
David J Harrison 