The old Cannon Cinema was where he went on his first ever date. A girl who drew bouncy cartoons called him up one day and said to him do you want to go to the cinema with me, and he said yes without even thinking, without even checking what the film was, and when she called him a day or two later and told him that they were going to see Jurassic Park he still said yes, said it twice in fact, even though he’d already seen it and he knew which of the characters would be crushed and torn apart and eaten.
Author: Simon John Cox
Reality Machines, Jeff Goldblum and Goth Christmas
Bradley Wiggins reads Simon John CoxLast night I recorded the two short stories that I wrote for the Tunbridge Wells Electric Lantern Festival. Sam Marlow and I went to Calverley Grounds and then to the old cinema to record my two pieces, entitled The Reality Machines and After Jeff Goldblum And The Ripples In The… Continue reading Reality Machines, Jeff Goldblum and Goth Christmas
TWW ELF Editing
I've finally almost finished editing the last of the Tunbridge Wells Writers pieces for the 2012 Electric Lantern Festival. There's a huge variety within them, and a variety of locations in and around Tunbridge Wells - the brief was to write a piece that was either to do with a certain place in Tunbridge Wells… Continue reading TWW ELF Editing
TWELF Night
I haven't been writing much on here lately, but that's because, as I said not long ago, I have been like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD as far as actual real writing is concerned.Plus there's my job and life etc. Anyway. I've made progress, the most significant of which being that I have finished two… Continue reading TWELF Night
100WC #47 – And finally…
100 Word Challenge #47Prompt:A garage that supplies drinks instead of fuel has caused bemusement among drivers. The three pumps, which deliver tea, coffee and milk, have flummoxed motorists, many of whom have suffered thousands of pounds worth of damage to their engines after mistakenly filling up with ten gallons of espresso. “I only noticed because… Continue reading 100WC #47 – And finally…
100WC #46 – PVS
100 Word Challenge #46Prompt: ...in the dark recess of my mind...They talk about me all the time. They think I can’t hear them. They think I’m gone for good, but I’m not. I just can’t come back.This is where I live now: in the dark recess of my mind. Where life is peaceful and even… Continue reading 100WC #46 – PVS
100WC #45 – The Age Of Austerity
100 Word Challenge #45Prompt: There's a real buzz about this placeGrimed windows, thick with dust, a door restrained by nails and wood. Stubborn prongs of weeds forcing slow cracks in mortar. Scabs of paint that flake and flutter in the wind. A plastic sign with missing letters, a tooth-decay smile, gaps marked by algae shadows… Continue reading 100WC #45 – The Age Of Austerity
Like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD
It struck me today that I am currently spreading myself rather thin when it comes to writing. I am like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD as far as writing is concerned, always impatient to get onto the next thing, but at the moment my list of projects is getting slightly overwhelming:A short story about a… Continue reading Like a hypercaffeinated hummingbird with ADHD
100WC #44 – Liz
100 Word Challenge #44Prompt: Write a poem. It doesn’t have to rhyme or be specifically about the Monarch but it should capture the passing of sixty years.Though union flags are hanging up in windows and from trees,And remnants of an empire wave them for your jubilee,That red-white-blue's more likely found in Brits abroad tattoos(I bet you… Continue reading 100WC #44 – Liz
Restoration Man free for one week
My short story The Restoration Man will be available free, gratis and for nothing on Amazon for one week from Monday. One working week, that is. Five days. So why not download it and read it and etc.Go on!