Leaving – A Collaborative Story

This is a collaborative story written with Ellen – and by that I mean she wrote the lion’s share and  I tied it up with the ending, but I like it and thought it worth posting here. See if you can see the point where they split.  It’s about feelings, and junk.

Originally appeared here.

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Didn’t get a place in drama school. Failed to pass my driving test. Wasn’t chosen to go on the school ski trip or hockey trip. Couldn’t buy that blender.

I look for meaning in everything when I have these crises of faith, searching for the deus ex machina in my life. The event which will turn things around or at least give me an answer. I don’t believe in God, but I do believe in plot devices.

Men & Waffles: The Modern Stag Weekend & All It’s Awfulness

This is a short story I wrote that gives a semi-fictionalised, but mostly real account of a stag weekend I found myself on in Belgium, one blisteringly cold March not so long ago… expect appalling language (come on, we’re all adults here), a little bit of drinking. But mostly sight-seeing and wine tasting. Yes, sight-seeing and wine tasting.

405 Tech-Round-Up: Social media special – Yahoo manages to find $1 billion, Tumblr CEO: “Fuck yeah!”

Let’s kick off in what you all must have heard – that resounding death knell for Tumblr, bursting across the aural landscape of the internet as the poison chalice of technology takeovers, Yahoo!, completed its £1.1 billion acquisition of the micro-blogging social media platform…

Read the full article on the 405.

This is an excerpt of a satirical tech column I sometimes write for The 405 – click the link above to read the whole thing.