Archive for May, 2009

Elvis Lives!

May 26, 2009
By Mick
Elvis Lives!

Yet more podcast short fiction from the Bordet pen. This one is a very short tale for the “100 Word Stories” podcast. It was based on the prompt “Elvis drives a bus” and goes somewhere along the road of trying to explain just how that could happen. Obviously, it takes place in some other...
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A Busy Theremin Week

May 22, 2009
By Mick
A Busy Theremin Week

Three bits of theremin-related news popped up this week: Don’t Mind Me My short fictional tale of the effects of excessive theremin-playing is now available at Great Hites for you to read or to listen to as part of the podcast. The advantage of the podcast is that, not only do you get to...
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Wearing my pen out

May 18, 2009
By Mick
Wearing my pen out

You’ll no doubt have seen my previous posts about a couple of my short stories that have been included on the ‘Great Hites‘ podcast. There is a section for voting on the site and I’m pleased to say that my first two efforts both came in first place on the list, so I must...
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"To The Clouds" – A life changed by the R34 Airship

May 11, 2009
By Mick
"To The Clouds" – A life changed by the R34 Airship

Life can take you on interesting detours. I sat down a couple of nights ago to write the next episode of ‘Some Other Scotland‘, only to find myself some time later digging through the internet for every scrap of information I could find about the R34 – the first aircraft to make a return...
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Things to be done and things not

May 8, 2009
By Mick
Things to be done and things not

First of all, I’ve signed up to do a song for the ‘Viva la Fry‘ project. Click on the link for more details of what it is. I have no idea what to do for this, but my inclination is to keep it very simple, maybe just uke and vocal. No deadline has been...
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Great Hites

May 4, 2009
By Mick
Great Hites

The short story I mentioned in the last post has appeared in Episode 51 of the Great Hites podcast which features short stories based on a common weekly theme. I have enjoyed several of the stories featured over the last few weeks that I’ve been following it, and the prompt for the latest week,...
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Masters of Song Fu – Hanging up that hat

May 1, 2009
By Mick

For the first time since it started, ‘Masters of Song Fu’ has been won by a challenger – well done Molly! They have already announced the date for sign-up for the next round, but I think I’m going to take a rest from the Fu for a while. I need to devote more time...
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