New Youtube video

I’ve just put a new short experimental video up on the Venus Vulture YouTube site. A minute and forty seconds of swirly blue clouds with a gentle swirly soundtrack. I’m getting more organised on the hard-drive at the moment (decluttering, I think it’s called), and I’m sorting out new and old videos, so there should be more going up on YouTube soon.

Two new stories published

A couple of Sean Monaghan stories have just been published on flash-fiction sites on the web. Both stories are under 600 words – easy to read at your screen – check them out
The science fiction story “How things fall” is out on AntipodeanSF*. Antipodean is a wonderful Australian short Science Fiction magazine with new stories monthly.
Another story “Air pocket” has just come out on MicroHorror. MicroHorror is a broad site with a growing archive of chilling stories.

*Update – this had now gone here into archive (only the current edition is online).

My garden turns to winter …

I stepped out onto the front verandah today and saw how suddenly the drop of winter has stripped the bigger trees, along the side of the property, of their leaves.  The new trees, those I planted just two years back, have thrived and are beginning to build their own forest in the the front yard, they are still green and lush.  They are evergreen natives; they take my attention.  How could it be that I hadn’t noticed the other trees shedding foliage?  I suppose it has taken a few weeks, but they look so bare and stark and spindly and now I look over the tops of the new trees and see right into the neighbour’s place, see their tidy almost manicured yard which seems in such contrast to the jungle in front of me.  I want the natives to grow fast fast fast so that I can look out and just see trees.

Squish

Busy with new projects – creativity handbook, story, new music, plus decluttering the house (seems to be popular at the moment, who am I to fight fashion). Hope to put some new music up on archive.org soon. Really this is a nothing post – just letting you all know that I’m still around.