Easily distracted by shiny things
I’ve never played an “Alan Wake” game before, and I’d never heard of the character or the world prior to getting this game (As part of a Humble Bundle) about 3 years ago. I installed it back then, played about an hour of it, couldn’t get the hang of it at ALL, so I uninstalled …
Read More Alan Wake’s American Nightmare – Deja vu all over again
She saw it that day. She saw what was on the other side. The split second she left this world lasted an eternity on the other side of the veil. She stood on sandy shores, waves lapping at her feet. The water was warm and soft. The mournful cry of gulls, high in the air, …
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My next game in the Gaming Adventure (and now so very close to 700 games altogether.. SHUSH! Don’t judge me! Blame Steam Summer Sale and GOG and their ridiculous discounts!) is the tragic and beautiful, A Plague Tale – Innocence. Some may say it should have been played in the “P” part of the adventure, …
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I had this weird idea a few moments ago, as I lay in bed at 01:45 am: A calendar called “Midnight Faces” which was 12 (and possibly more bonus images) “photos” of kids who had ignored or defied or just not believed the Rule that if you held a silly/ugly face when a clock struck …
Read More Midnight FacesThe Beast raises his shaggy haired arms with muscles twitching and sweat sliding Between his fingers twines a snake with eyes like sapphires and teeth like diamonds And pearls of venom dribble from tips of fangs and the hiss escapes like sibilant whispers Of black words and black thoughts and black deeds with shadowed wings and …
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I Have Plans For The New Year! I don’t have resolutions, but I definitely have plans, and maybe a few goals too. Resolutions are for people who don’t really want to expend too much effort, because they know that resolutions made for new year are not normally expected to be kept beyond February, March …
Read More I Have Plans For The New Year“You don’t need to know everything, do you?” she asked coyly, crossing her legs and sitting back in the big soft armchair. That smirk of hers was well known now. She was on the cover of every tabloid magazine and a lot of men’s magazines as well – those that wanted the publicity. Jacqui tried …
Read More Snippet 16Nothing to do with big butts, promise. Mine is being carefully kept in check by energetic walking and playing with my dogs, 3 times a day, and a run every second day. I’m also going to get back into my yoga… might have to do it in a separate room, of course, because according to …
Read More Dame Mix-a-LotOOOH! James Joyce? Really? That’s so cool 🙂 I pasted the prologue from my (as yet unfinished) novel called “Lima’s War” into I Write Like‘s analyser… and that’s what it told me… Give it a shot! I write likeJames Joyce I Write Like. Analyze your writing!
Read More I Write Like…Like a knife being slid slowly down her throat, right down her chest. Straight into her heart. That was the grief she felt. Like slivers of razors running through her veins. Throbbing with her pulse. His blue eyes. So pale they looked like clouded sky. No glow now. No sparkle. His hands, covered in blood …
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