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400 years between stars
I am very pleased to say that my first novel is out in e-book and POD format with wingsepress.com/ You can read the first chapter here. Reaching the planet’s surface, Dyandra is horrified to discover that only half of the crew touched … Continue reading
Posted in Science Fiction, WIP
Tagged 400 years, 400 years between stars, 978-1-61309-187-6, 978-1-61309-821-9, adventure, AI, all female crew, Benjamin F Jones, bio-engineering, class inversion, coercion, colonisation, Colonization, compost, diaspora, drugs, dyandra, egeno, emotional damage, ethics, exploration, family, fantastic fauna fantastic flora, female antagonist, female protagonist, foundation, founders, founding, friendship, generation ships, graphite bunny, gravity, hostage, human virus, hydroponics, Ill health, illness, moral dilemma, morals, mutiny, new colony, older protagonist, power struggles, primitive planet, science fiction, seed ship, spacewalk, Speculative bunny, Speculative Fiction, spores, Stockholm Syndrome, sub light travel, survival mission, survivor, technology, wingsepress, women
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Coal Smoke Blends from Chimney
Thin string clouds red against blue sky. Winter approaching. I must prepare. Kids in the bath splashing water up the walls. Enjoying my brother’s visit, the first in months. ‘Where are we going today?’ In the carriage hacking through the … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry, Scraplets
Tagged calm, canal, cat, dense prose, family, graphite bunny, inner peace, kindling, log fire, October, october 2007, picnic, prose poetry, prose-poetry, radyr, Rhondda, rush, tights, train travel, Ynyshir
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Family Unit
My mother brushes the carpet and offers me a choice of duvet covers. Four squares of light relax on the burgundy sofa. Trains rattle past the bathroom window and I remember the day I painted the frame. Today I play … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Prose Poetry
Tagged 1998, adulthood, archive, Benjamin F Jones, changing, creative prose, Creative writing, expansion, family, fathers, graphite bunny, growing, growing up, leaving, Prose, prose poem, prose poetry, student bunny, vignette, visits from university
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Gargling Cheap Wine: 3 Homerton Street
There’d been no other reason to get wasted other than we were brothers and it was Saturday. By midnight we were gargling cheap wine and the walls had rushed away. Seven sheets blew in the wind we sailed steamrollers in … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry, Scraplets
Tagged 1996, Brother, Cambridge, cheap wine, creative prose, drunken, family, graphite bunny, Homerton Street, memories, prose poetry, prose-poetry, wine
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Tied Hands
Eczema drawstring round the wrist. Strangling softness vacuum dry. Peel and smelling of lotions rubbed on. Red itch. A strap of concrete and lime. White scaled to the back of her hand. Veins to mole full stop. Exclamation mark. Fingers … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry, Scraplets, Snapshots
Tagged children, Creative writing, Eczema, family, kids, life, mother, motherhood, prose poetry, prose-poetry, vignette
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