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Scramblers and Shadows


Politicians prey on the vulnerable, the disadvantaged and those with an infantile sense of pride in a romanticised national identity which was fabricated by a small to mid-sized advertising agency.

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  • 342 weeks
    Cold Light is complete

    .... and I'm two days late in announcing it, because my life is hectic and not very fimficcy nowadays.

    Still, I want to make a note of this. I started Cold Light to see if I could actually write a genuine fantasy novel. Three bloody years, it took, but I did it. I finished it, and it's one of the three stories on here that I'm actually halfway proud of.

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  • 416 weeks
    Why I'd rather write something pretentious than something good

    Okay, I'll own up. That's a deliberately confrontational clickbait-y title. I couldn't help myself.

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  • 447 weeks
    Five ways to improve Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

    Friendship Games is a middling sort of installment. Better than Equestria Girls, worse than Rainbow Rocks – but given the latter was so great, and the former so abysmal, that's no real surprise. How did it fare on its own terms? Again, middling: Better than it might've been, but still not quite as good as it could've been.

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  • 458 weeks
    What is the value of fiction?

    It's characteristic of fiction writers that we tend to be good at bullshitting. Something of a necessary skill, really. And it's characteristic of everyone that we tend to be pretty bad at judging our own importance without some self-aggrandisement.

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  • 459 weeks
    An important anniversary

    (With any luck, this is about political as you'll ever see me get on here.)

    And coming up next: Talking about the value of stories. Or another go at criticising critics. We'll see.

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Jul
25th
2014

Read this. No, really. Do it. · 4:48pm Jul 25th, 2014

I don't know how many of my followers don't follow Bradel. But for those benighted few, I present a a Poe-esque horror -- a kitchen-stove gothic tale -- with some of the most gorgeously threatening prose I've seen on this site:

The Rose, by Bradel

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