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Jul.19.2008 - 1:16 am
Fiction Blogs vs. Opinion Blogs
Bloggers are surprisingly conservative, for a group that consider themselves to be on the cutting edge of internet technology. Blogs started life as opinion pieces, the entry of...
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Jul.15.2008 - 10:12 am
Peaks and Troughs - it's a numbers game
I used to work in the music business as a promoter. Initially (in the 80's) rock bands in small clubs around London - the business was simple in those days, if your finger was on...
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Jun.27.2008 - 12:02 am
Building Slowly
This week has been uphill so far as the writing is concerned - a 4.30am start on Tuesday left me struggling to stay awake in the hours I usually reserve for writing. Still, 500...
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Jun.22.2008 - 1:06 am
Well, Hello
I'll talk about the fiction - I maintain a blog called 'Grapes of Wrath' - it is the journal of an Edwardian gentleman (P.P. Oatenshaw) wine critic whose struggles with the twenty...
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Jul.18.2008 - 4:19 am
In response to: The anonymous writer
The Anonymous Writer
Interesting post - it prompted me to recall a remark made by my tutor at Film School - back in the 1980's "You don...
Jul.18.2008 - 4:09 am
In response to: Curiouser and Curiouser on the Internet
Alice
I don't play games as a rule, but Alice is one I'd make an exception for. It was /is vastly superior to any other game...
Jun.22.2008 - 6:53 am
In response to: Well, Hello
Perry
It is the same character in the short story - Peregrine Percival Oatenshaw, aka Perry. I should have made that clear!
Jun.22.2008 - 6:42 am
In response to: Perry Gets A Shave
More...
Sheila, thanks - there is more in the blog at http://grapesofwrath.wordpress.com/ The short story is the newest entry...

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Short Story: Tiny Tears
Short Story: A Day at The Races
Short Story: A Visit to the Footbinder
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About Chris

Yorkshire suffers the singular misfortune of having me as a native son. Roaming the world in a professional capacity as an IT Architect has not blunted the qualities that Yorkshiremen bring to the world - tight, begrudging and narrow minded, I cut a swathe...
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Chris’s Favorite Books

The Third Policeman, The Beastly Beatitudes of Balthazar B, The Restraint of Beasts