All posts tagged story
A Corpse’s Shadow
The body was in the boot, but its smell had crept through the car and sat down on the passenger’s seat. Frank thought it must have been a day old […]
With Child
In an aisle at the supermarket’s centre was a shelf of too-large-to-be-true Perspex boxes. In every box was another box: a little white one, and in every little white box […]
The Mummy Review – The ‘Dark Universe’ Needs a Few Bandages to Bring Itself Back to Life after this Lukewarm, yet Innocently Fun, Start
If there is one trend that has really surged into the blood stream of the film industry, it’s the so-called ‘Cinematic Universe’. Marvel, DC, Fox, they’ve all jumped aboard the […]
Personal Platform’s Six Word Short Story Collection.
The myth surrounding the six-word short story goes like this. American writer, Ernest Hemingway, is drinking with fellow writers in a restaurant in New York. His breath stinking of whiskey, […]
Disney: From Renaissance to Remakes
In the last few years, Disney has been releasing new iterations of their fairy tales through the medium of live-action as opposed to their original animation form. What is also […]
‘Curioser and Curioser’: Alice’s Adventures in London…
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel Through the Looking Glass were probably two of my favourite books as a child, and in fact they still are. I loved the […]
The Swallow and the Merchant
Oscar Wilde’s fairytales always seem to come with a delightful twist. They do not comply with the convention that fairytales need a moral, and are not palliative or dreamlike worlds […]
My First Love
They say that the best memories in your life will be your accomplishments, such as winning a trophy in a school tournament, winning an achievement award at high school, graduating high school, getting […]