by Neil | Mar 28, 2008 | Fiction, flash fiction, Free Online Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Short Stories, short story
If you missed last week’s flash, it can be found here.This week’s piece was written at Eastercon for the Friday Flash Fiction workshop we ran to launch Illuminations. Not one to ask others to do what we would not, each of us wrote a story whilst the...by Neil | Mar 27, 2008 | Eastercon, Neil Gaiman, Orbital 2008, Personal, rambling post that goes all over the place, Science Fiction and Fantasy
So over at Nostalgia for the Future, Justin has an excellent write up of Eastercon and nicely distills China’s keynote. China was a bit of a revelation. A fascinatingly literate and erudite speaker; I spent a lot of the weekend coming out of his panels with a...by Neil | Mar 21, 2008 | Fiction, flash fiction, Free Online Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Short Stories, short story, The Woodsman
Due to a very manic week I don’t have a proper entry – although this may change during the workshop tomorrow – and so I’m posting a little bit of back story to The Woodsman that has most likely been dropped for pace reasons. Hopefully...by Neil | Mar 17, 2008 | Entertainment, Film, Movies, Review, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Thoughts
I went to the cinema on the weekend for the first time in what felt like an age. I was vaguely disappointed that there wasn’t a more interesting selection of flicks on offer but saw that Jumper was on. Pushing my reservations about Hayden Christensen to one side I...by Neil | Mar 14, 2008 | Fiction, Free Online Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Short Stories
On the back of today’s announcement I feel almost deflated posting this week’s entry. It didn’t quite live up to the expectations I had when the idea first occurred but with the final draft of The Woodsman well underway (we just met the Tream) this...by Neil | Mar 7, 2008 | Fiction, Free Online Fiction, Friday Flash Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Seemed like a good idea at the time, Short Stories
Ok. I’ve been a bit pushed for time again and so we witness the somewhat dubious return of the Elevator or to be strictly accurate Elevator 2 – Tin Clouds. Err, hope you enjoy: Elevator 2 – Tin Clouds By Neil Beynon At the edge of the world where the...