Archives: Writing

The Chronicles of Captain Shelly Manhar

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A book review!

 

Last year, I was honoured to be contacted by and interviewed by a fellow author, Nabila Fairuz. You can see her interview here on her blog, in fact. Nabila was born in Dhaka, Bangladesh and moved to Canada in 2009, attending university in Ottowa. A passionate writer, Nabila has recently produced her first novel, the Chronicles of Captain Shelly Manhar (which you can buy here at Amazon). She kindly gave me a copy to review, so that’s what I’m about to do!

Fantastic Beasts: Cases From The Wizarding World

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Fantastic news! (and where to find it!)

 

I may have mentioned being busy over the last few months, working on a new game writing gig which has been important to me. While I was sworn to NDA secrecy for a long time, the game has now been released and I’m free to share the good news!

Impromptu Poetry: Schism.

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Evening all.

 

Today I felt like scribbling out a quick poem. It’s about racism, jingoism and fascism, so I called it:

 

Schism.

 

Today I met a heinous plan,

Borne within a normal man.

This plan it rode within his mind,

It gave him notions most unkind.

It’s shape was cruel and aimed to harm,

A dark design of selfish charm.

From man to man, it quickly spread,

This plan, it passed from head to head.

Its wings are fear, its jaws are hate,

A wyrm I recognised too late.

This simple whim, it tricked us all,

Denounce the foe, build a wall!

It whispered ‘us’, it warned of ‘them’,

Promised strength, augured mayhem.

That normal man, like you or I,

Had no forked tongue, or evil eye.

He just had friends and family,

Felt threatened by uncertainty.

The plan took root, on fertile soil,

Seed to stem, it did uncoil.

A wall he built, hard and tall,

Around his heart.

Against us all.