This is my space for current writing. This mainly covers fiction - if I write any facts you can be sure to find these in the main Hypercube web page or on the links to blogs and other stuff at the foot of this page.
I am finishing some short stories from across the years. Here are a couple - see below for upcoming anthology.
The Red Car |
Arthur Ponsonby invented a time machine. It was unfortunate that he did not also invent a place machine. His first experiment took him six months into the future, where the Earth was not. And there his frozen remains continued to orbit the Sun, in antiphase with the Earth, unseen and unseeable for some million or so years until, improbably, he was run down by a red sports car, his form scattered into microscopic interplanetary dust. |
I have been collecting these and other short stories into an anthology. This is currently being reviewed and will hopefully be available shortly as an e-book for purchase. Some of these are very recent, others were written so long ago that their futures are now irretrievably in our past. Working title: "Lost in Time".
Here is a list of the stories. Most are quite short, some are a more traditional length and some are microstories and other experiments. The genre varies but I'm hoping a kind of consistency shines out somehow.
There is also a short novel in draft, with the title "Josh actually; The Man who Shot Jesus".
A sample chapter of this is included in the anthology 'Lost in Time'.
See my Personal Blog Through a Glass, Brightly for various humanistic musings.
See my other blog Beyond the Cube for more worklike musings on meaning and current affairs.
Here is a thing I wrote many years ago on the subject of dreams, magic and miracles.
Beyond humanism, I believe there is something within the human experience which is closer to what we sometimes mean by "spiritual" than anything we see in religious belief systems, and that in fact those belief systems act as a form of poison to prevent us finding whatever our true way is. I do not believe that it requires any imaginary beings, or any separate, neo-Platonist separate dimension of "Spirit" for this, rather it emerges from the single physical world we see. The way the world is, and the things that arise out of that world, are far more inspiring and magical than the crass, simplifying "explanations" put forward by the neo-platonist religions (that's the big three).
So far this amounts to a sort of one-adherent religion with that one simple belief. Indeed this is pretty much the point of the short story 'Triptych'. I sometimes do the odd on-line session of this kind of thing for special occasions.