Category: Publications
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Here’s one I prepared earlier(ish)
Hello. I may be faster than a speeding bullet when I go shopping. Actually, that isn’t entirely true. I’m quick, but not that quick. If I was quick, I’d have had some inspiration for a new post by now. But nothing. Not even a polar bear in sight. Sigh. No mermaids have beckoned with their…
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The Results
Recently I posted, as an experiment, a request for readers of my blog to try to categorise eight of my posts. I wanted to gather if by reading one hundred words, the reader could tell if the post was based on a real event, a dream, a revelation or it was complete fiction. Thanks to…
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Chamaeleon: A Rogue Planet
You don’t really think of the early Seventeenth Century and connect it to a multi national corporation. Well, I don’t, and I find myself thinking of the early Seventeenth Century quite a lot! However, back in the day, there were one or two multi national corporations in existence. The British had the East India Trading…
Tom
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Bah, Humbug! It’s Valentine’s!
“Valentine’s what?” one of my teachers would have said to me centuries ago when I was in school, if I’d have dared write something as I did the header of today’s post. “I’m waiting!” She would have glared over her thick-rimmed glasses, steam bellowing out of her nostrils individually. Bony fingers tapping the wooden desk…
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Thoughts, by T.L.Merriman
A spark ignites an idea from an image, smell or sound A few words grouped together gets a tale off the ground A tale becomes a paragraph; a chapter; or a book Possibly a trilogy (or more) with any luck. The pen needs inspiration, to enable the tale to grow And the balance of everything…
Tom