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The rose cut his mouth. Sitting on a park bench in his lunchtime break, he'd pondered the urge for a good half hour before he leant over the warning sign, grasped the vibrant pink bud in his fist and yanked back. The flower uprooted from the bed in a flurry of mud, the stem snapped and he shoved the plant into his gaping maw.
“Am I alive? What if I’m God?”
It's not a lie if you believe it. The words of George Costanza came to reassure him as he sat in the interview room, sweat nerves tightening his smile. Yes, he knew in his heart he was a good person, even if his mind sometimes wondered. Just believe.
“People do things when they got the screws on ’em, doesn’t mean who they are, what they are.”
The path was easy to find, but hard to keep to. Starting off from village lowlands, it rose through shades of green, brown, tan and ash, bursts of tree and shrubbery pock-marking the slopes, so each turn revealed a new variation of rolling Andean hills.
"Black leather, black leather, smash smash smash!"

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FICTION REVIEW
FICTION

Feral

A city drone regressses to primal instinct to bring himself closer to nature Continue reading Feral

The Nines (2007)
REVIEW

The Nines (2007)

Worlds collide when Ryan Reynolds plays God in this mind-bending sci-fi masterpiece Continue reading The Nines (2007)

Feed Them The Lions
FICTION

Feed Them The Lions

How to be good: a loafer discovers charity’s rewards and hypocrisies working for a church Continue reading Feed Them The Lions

The Lady in Red (1979)
REVIEW

The Lady in Red (1979)

Candide is relocated to 1920s Chicago in feminist gangster take on social ills Continue reading The Lady in Red (1979)

Them Thar Hills
FICTION

Them Thar Hills

A lone backpacker uncovers a secret in the Peruvian hills far greater than any treasure Continue reading Them Thar Hills

The Damned (1963)
REVIEW

The Damned (1963)

1960s Britain is given a dystopian twist by teenage rebels and nuclear science in Joseph Losey’s forgotten sci-fi classic. Continue reading The Damned (1963)

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