BLOG NUMBER TWENTY-SIX: PONTOON TALES…
There is no protection from rejection, so here’s another collection; a selection that failed to attract any attention. A curation of...
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steven holding
- Apr 4, 2021
BLOG NUMBER TWENTY-FIVE: N GRIPS P’S RING, P GRINS... SPRING!
The temperate season is upon us (which poses the question, is a temperate season the same as a dry season? Answers on the back of a...
steven holding
- Mar 6, 2021
BLOG NUMBER TWENTY-FOUR: I’VE A LIE… A VEIL? ALIVE!
“The great grey beast February had eaten Harvey Swick alive. Here he was, buried in the belly of that smothering month, wondering if he...
steven holding
- Dec 27, 2020
BLOG NUMBER TWENTY-THREE: CHRISTMAS? CHRIST, WHAT A MESS…
So, here we are once again, slap bang in the middle of another festive season! This year, more so than ever, I truly hope that all of us...
steven holding
- Nov 21, 2020
BLOG NUMBER TWENTY-TWO: THE HINT OF WINTER BECAME A PROMISE…
“This is the strangest life I’ve ever known” WAITING FOR THE SUN – THE DOORS Strange days indeed. So, I cling to these thoughts: that...
steven holding
- Oct 31, 2020
BLOG NUMBER TWENTY-ONE: THE NIGHT HE CAME HOME
So, we’ve made it here in one piece (I hope!), as a weeks’ worth of weird tales finally limps across the finishing line and comes to a...
steven holding
- Oct 31, 2020
BLOG NUMBER TWENTY: WAS THAT THE BOOGEYMAN? AS A MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS…
The railway carriage is empty. As you sink down into your chair, still a little tipsy from the night’s festivities, you hope that you...
steven holding
- Oct 30, 2020
BLOG NUMBER NINETEEN: DEVIL LIVED, LIVE EVIL
Scratched and etched upon the wall of the cell: graffiti from a thousand different souls, countless confessions, stories, obscenities,...
steven holding
- Oct 29, 2020
BLOG NUMBER EIGHTEEN: ONE MORE STORY BEFORE TWELVE, JUST TO KEEP US WARM…
The club is usually empty at this time of night. Just you and the barman, silent as always, shining empty glasses with a dubious looking...
steven holding
- Oct 28, 2020
BLOG NUMBER SEVENTEEN: YOU WANNA SEE SOMETHING REALLY SCARY?
Well here we are again folks, yet another late, late night, the house is quiet, everybody is tucked up in bed and we’re steadily creeping...
steven holding
- Oct 27, 2020
BLOG NUMBER SIXTEEN: HEY! HEY LONNIE, GET YOUR ASS AWAY FROM THERE!
It’s very, very late. Or maybe it’s just very, very early. Whichever way you choose to look at it, it’s still bloody dark, it’s still...
steven holding
- Oct 25, 2020
BLOG NUMBER FIFTEEN: SIX MORE DAYS TO HALLOWEEN, SILVER SHAMROCK!
“Take it off the third channel… the third channel!... it’s still running… stop it, please… for God’s sake… please stop it… there’s no...
steven holding
- Sep 9, 2020
BLOG NUMBER FOURTEEN: TOOK A LOOK AT THE BOOK GOT HOOKED AND ALL SHOOK UP
What time is it? The answer, as always, is no time at all… Life moves quickly and yet I still cannot seem to get it together to totally...
steven holding
- Aug 10, 2020
BLOG NUMBER THIRTEEN: BRUMMIE BUYS NECKWEAR FOR IDENTICAL NIPPERS
Yowzer! Like a fictional individual waiting for a proverbial imaginary bus, most of the time it feels like not a lot is happening… until...
steven holding
- Aug 2, 2020
BLOG NUMBER TWELVE: BACK POCKET PROSE POEMS AND SHAMELESS SELF PROMOTION
I’m not usually one to forcefully exhale through my own brass instrument, but those good, good people over at THE HORROR TREE website...
steven holding
- Jul 9, 2020
BLOG NUMBER ELEVEN: IF THINGS HAD FEELINGS…
“There’s a tiny gap between the stories we tell ourselves and those we tell others and that’s where you’ll find the truth” In the Wake of...
steven holding
- Jun 10, 2020
BLOG NUMBER TEN: TENSION? TENDER ATTENTION OFTEN…
This whirling world overwhelms me nearly every single day… I’m sure I’m not the only one who always feels this way… An antidote to cure...
steven holding
- May 22, 2020
BLOG NUMBER NINE: TAKE THIS BROTHER MAY IT SERVE YOU WELL
Given an abundance of time, even the most unsentimental of human minds is susceptible to some form of retrospection. When I envision the...
steven holding
- May 6, 2020
BLOG NUMBER EIGHT: A CENTURY-SUBTRACT-ATE-TEA-WON
The tears are welling in my eyes again I need twenty big buckets to catch them in And twenty pretty girls to carry them down And twenty...
steven holding
- May 4, 2020
BLOG NUMBER SEVEN: TAKE THE PENSIONER BORN IN 1959 AND FLIP THEM UPSIDE DOWN
Writing to a soundtrack of Baxter Dury and Luke Haines, devouring books by Adam Nevill (The Reddening), Gary McMahon (Some Bruising May...
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