Blogette Number 2. What a great start to the year, mainly rain, followed by more rain, then it rained. All the rain caused quite a lot of flooding. Further north they had snow, lots of snow, then flooding as it melted. So maybe not such a great beginning. To cheer us all up, we went …
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Blogette Number 1. A Blogette is a short or small blog. Today, January the 11th, I was guest poet/writer/speaker at a church 'Creative Writing Group' which meets every month on the second Saturday. I was really quite nervous about it, as they not only listen to the poems but then discuss them afterwards. I was …
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Definitions: Otherness is the result of a discursive process by which a dominant in-group (“Us,” the Self) constructs one or many dominated out-groups (“Them,” Other) by stigmatizing a difference – real or imagined – presented as a negation of identity and thus a motive for potential discrimination. Otherness... an image created using Ai. Not the …
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Seven Sisters Cliffs, near Eastbourne. Well, that's another month done and dusted, soon be Christmas, and then, before we know it 2025. Let's not dwell on that, when you get older, the months just fly by. The years disappear, it's almost as if we are in a hurry to get it all over with. Talking …
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A slightly completely rambling and nonsensical poem Hiding is not sheltering from a storm, hiding is in fear of death or mortal injury, or worse. Collected in a hearse, not dead. Except inside my head. Sheltering is not hiding, unless it’s raining, It’s only water, you think, not complaining. Sheltered under an old tree, rain …
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Cover proposal. There has been a plot twist and complete change of storyline. I have deleted several chapters as I was becoming bogged down by keeping all the action in Afghanistan, so this is the latest idea. This will delay publication, but I still hope for availability before the end of 2024. A science fiction …
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Book two of the three books, The Tales of Trymyll is now complete and available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle. Below are the first couple of chapters as a taster. Enjoy, like and comment please. Amazon UK link: https://tinyurl.com/mv84mec2 Amazon US Link: https://tinyurl.com/pk4eaycx Amazon Australia: https://tinyurl.com/ymersr9p Prologue. Thomas was thirteen. He didn’t believe in …
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Second edition out now. The book has been completely reformatted and re-edited. Enjoy the read, available in paperback or Kindle. Search for Joseph R Mason on any Amazon platform. https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08XXY3VPS
. Written for The Hailsham Festival 2020. At thirteen, Rupert thought he was the unhappiest boy in the world. He had no friends, his parents were far too busy being busy to even remember they had a son. Materially, he wanted for nothing. He had nice clothes, designer brands only. He had the latest technology, …
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