‘Eyes without life, sundered heads, these are pleasing words to me.’
‘Who rattled your fuckin’ chain?’ asked Joy. ‘You watch your mouth, you. I’ve made better men than you cry.’
I can’t see Captain Snell or those officers who produced the Wipers Times enjoying ragtime, can you? It’s far too cool. Yet Charley Bourne and his mates…
Basing a villain on a school teacher, a cleric or anyone else that you loathe is an excellent starting point.
‘I’m now officially a serial killer. Kids are wreaking their revenge on adults, and it’s all down to me. I’m their secret leader, helping them to fight…
I was inspired to write about the foreign legion by reading Beau Geste, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal by P.C. Wren, as a boy. By comparison, Luck of the…
Miles Kington, assistant editor of Punch, was most encouraging and said with ‘considerable polishing’ a dark comedy article I’d written would be…
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“Dear Caning Commando, Thanks for the tip-off about thallium. It worked a treat on our chemistry teacher. He deserved to die.”
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