Recent content by Rigor Mortis

I dunno. Would the Vikings have considered peaceful, co-existence as perfect? (not inviting an exhaustive history of Viking clans who survived on the proceeds of Daffodil harvesting) utopia /juːˈtəʊpiə/ noun an imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect. Edit: @defaux...

Well, whaddya know? Quell those warring factions, stick them tyrants on the bold step. It seems there may be interest in utopia after all. This was one of a bunch of themed call outs listed on Authors Publish newsletter: Utopia Science Fiction: Cozy utopias Utopia Science Fiction wants fiction...

We definitely need an eyebrow raising emoji on the reactions list.

I was made to laugh, so now must post. It's 1st March today. It's been raining since early January. Enough, already.

I don't read an awful lot of non-fiction these days. I do recall: Heroes, by John Pilger. The flyleaf said any history teacher should start by chucking a copy of Heroes to every member of the class and it weren't lying. Pilger got around and it's still a good source of info on numerous modern...

I'm not going to post on these threads if I can help it. I've pretty much said what I have to say about AI and I'm not likely to change anyones mind, even if I wanted to. No-one here is going to change mine either. However, I don't like to see these threads grow without some dissenting voices...

My father worked in the Post Office for 44 years but always had various sidelines that incorporated us, his kids, in some shape or form. While my older brothers got fully invested in the FCA (part-time, amateur army) when he was the local top officer, my only investment was an afternoon in a...

I remember reading something a long time ago, and can't attest to its accuracy, saying that people are often long-term friends with others who share the same or alphabetically close first letter on their surname, arising from being lined up as children/recruits according to alphabetic placement...

Have you never heard of trigger warnings?

I need to declutter. This is one of my earliest efforts. I post it here not because it's fit for Showcase, nor to avoid comment, but more to save people the hassle of making comment when I'll not change this. That's not because it's not got flaws. It clearly has, and probably ones I continue...

Years ago, when our daughter was about 10 years old, we went to a show featuring Irish dancing by a bunch of her 10-year-old friends. Her closest friend, god love her, had early growth spurts and was at least twice the size of the rest of the troupe. Not kidding, the others caught up but at this...

I'm in the mood for a long, stupid story...

That is quite a leap. Irish dancing, done well, can be spectacular. Done poorly, I'm not sure there's anything more ridiculous. My eldest brother has two Canadian kids. My eldest sister's son lives in Toronto with his Canadian partner and baby and now another sister's son, also in Toronto, has...

definitely some Irish in that background... My nephew and his wife welcomed a brand new Canadian citizen a few days ago.

From my response from Duotrope: "...we have taken the action of marking the Soo Generis projects as "removed," so they no longer have active listings with us..."