Fiction

The Slab Hacker’s Lament

‘Good morning citizens, are you alive this morning?,’ came the feverish cry through Waltham’s cochlear receiver. One by one, the machines sputtered and grumbled to life. He felt the familiar vibrations intensify through the thin [more…]

Biography

Lola

The cloying stench of cigarette smoke oozed from every fibre of the detective’s fraying-at-the edges suit jacket as he stretched wearily across the table for the tape machine. He let out a sharp cough, adding [more…]

Conservatives

The Changing of the Guard

Lord Cameron gazed giddily around his office, a look of wonder playing over his bubblegum pink visage. ‘I must say you have completely and utterly exceeded my expectations,’ he gushed. ‘If I was still in [more…]

Fiction

Harry and Willyam

Ah’m sick tae f**kin’ death ae hearin’ aboot aw thess Harry and Willyam pish. Ah’ve bin puttin’ up wi’ their s***e since they were weans an iss away’s thah same f**kin story. Ah mind wance [more…]

Fiction

Eternal Drudgery

Ostensibly, it appeared to be a significant improvement on Larkin’s usual choice of hostelry. Outside, there was no gaggle of wizened, gimlet-eyed daytime drinkers sucking on Superkings and grunting incomprehensibly at one another. There was [more…]