11:25am, 9th August 2019
It's August, and I've made zero new posts so far this year. Ouch.
In my defence, it has been a year. As was 2018. As was 2017. Hmm. But it'll let up at some point, right?
Right?
Herewith, then, a few overdue updates collected together as briefly as I can manage (he says, laughing)
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Matt Dovey is a writer of short speculative fiction. He is very tall, very British, and probably drinking a cup of tea right now. His surname rhymes with “Dopey”, but any other similarities to the dwarf are purely coincidental. More →
You're not a person, they say, circling. You're one of Them. From the other side.
”Hooded eyes stare with fierce intensity across the scarred oak table as the creature looms out of the shadows. "I had never thought to see another..." he muses.
I nod my glass of claret in Adam's direction. The dregs glint like drops of spilled blood in the candlelight.
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"Yeah, yeah," agrees Deema, another barista. "And even if I had the brainspace to worry, I haven't got the roomspace in my apartment for a shrine. I make my obeisance when I visit my parents at the weekend, but my apartment's so cramped the shower's in the kitchen. Where am I meant to find the space for the Eighteen Forms of Frozen Madness?"
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