I stumbled across Moonfruit the other day and it was timely because I'd been looking for some web-based tools to enable me to bring my website up to date and also provide a one-stop-shop for all my stories. I was getting a bit irritated with updating so many different websites, and I needed to find a more consistent and all-encompassing home for all my writing. Oh, and I was getting sick and tied of having my forum hacked by people trying to sell things to make your willy bigger or places to lose your money. Anyway, all the links are the same as I've done some catch-alls on my domains and I'll be adding all my stories over the fullness of time. Thanks for reading this immensely boring post.
I woke up early this morning on my 50th birthday. It was as bright outside as it would ever be at 5am due to it being the summer solstice, the longest period of daylight time. From here on, the nights get longer. Sitting in bed with a cup of tea I started to think about some of the first stories I wrote, and a few memories came back to me. The first thing I remember writing was in my penultimate year in primary school, so we're talking 1983-4. Successfully combining two major phobias of mine, it was called "Tarantursnake" and took up a whopping four pages of my English workbook. I remember getting a decent mark for it, but the only thing I could remember from the story itself was a man hanging on for dear life to a pole suspended over a pit of tarantursnakes. In fact, that may have been the whole thing. I'm not so sure it followed any conventional rules of narrative. Later, in 1987, in high school, a collection of us smuggled copies of the newly published paperback of
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