Preview: The Lord of Nonsense. First three chapters.
This writing is in the process of being edited. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The revised version will, however, be worth the wait.
This writing is in the process of being edited. Sorry for any inconvenience caused. The revised version will, however, be worth the wait.
Sometime in 2011: I had some sort of an argument with my girlfriend and went for a walk. By the time I arrived back home, I had written this – completely unrelated and surreal – ‘sketch’. Dear Me Gary Dorking 2011 Dear me, As someone whom may have some empathy with myself, I feel …
Gary Dorking Written in my head when getting out of the bath, then jotted down. Surreal gibberish of an eccentric upper class nature ( perhaps ). Gerald and Louella get dressed. “Oh to be a marsupial!” Screamed Gerald, wrapping himself around the notion like a cling film hamper. “My breath would glow with security,” he …
I sometimes just start writing to see what will happen, with varying success. This one worked for me… It’s In Here with Me Gary Dorking These patterns and shapes I see, I know are not there; it’s just my mind trying to see something, grasping something, in this pitch-blackness. All else …
Zog’s girlfriend wants to make a good impression on his mother, but someone’s doing a bad impression, and the truth, it may have to come out. Zog Leibowitz. By Gary Dorking The streets were full of people, and their breath mists. They rubbed their gloved hands together to keep warm. It was winter. Icicles hung …
A moving tale of an old man who thinks he may be on a train… Dedicated to my friend, Raja, whose name I took for this character ( though there is little similarity save that they are both Srilankan). I sent him this story to read. He died before I found out if he’d read …
After 12 years working on Lord of Nonsense, I am nearly there. So, ‘publish!’ I think… No: make sure people are interested in you so they buy it, and an initial surge in sales when it first hits the market helps rankings with Amazon, which helps sales, which means people read it and I get some …
Dark Jack Gary Dorking There is a place where the culling of wolves is a regular occurrence – where their evil deeds seems nevertheless to remain unabated, where only foolish whispers and drunken talk make reference to the true cause of so many disappearances. There are many ‘tales’ about Jack Fell. Each one extraordinary. Perhaps …