10. RETAIL, REBELLION & RESTIVE DEMONS
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TIME FOR A TIPPLE PASSIONFRUIT MOJITO
Since we have unfettered access to the Quartermaster’s rum stash, this month’s cocktail is my all-time...
WRITING PROMPTS: PHOTO OF THE MONTH 2023
The images in this album have been handpicked by our esteemed Ship's Belle. They are not just photos, they are...
NEW HORROR SHORT: THE WAREHOUSE
Nobody goes down there if they can help it. The strip lights flicker and the walls are cold and slicked...
VANCOUVER MOSQUITOS SUCK
FK MARLOWE NEWS 15 AUGUST, 2022 WHAT KIND OF MOSQUITO AM I? – Or, A Writer Rambles Down a Lane, Rambling Vancouver mosquitos suck. They just don’t do it nearly as expertly as Beijing ones. I’m walking the dog down an evening lane still hazy with the unseasonal heat that’s…
YOUNG ADULT FICTION
READER'S WIKI: YA, or Young Adult fiction, is a category of fiction written for adolescent readers, but it’s often widely read by adults too. Some examples of famous YA works are Harry Potter, The Hunger Games and the Twilight Saga. As a genre, Young Adult’s been around so long
I CAN FEEL THE STORM COMING
FK MARLOWE NEWS 7 JULY, 2022 July for a horror writer should be hot; the sun a white, baleful eye that sees every sin and reaches fingers deep into the soil to find the rotting secrets buried there and bring them writhing to the surface. It should be a sheen…
A HORROR WRITER’S JUNE
FK MARLOWE NEWS 7 JUNE, 2022 It’s a horror-writer’s June here in BC, with louring skies and torrential downpours one minute, sweltering heat the next. Not great for the flowers, but fantastic for the imagination, and mine is putting out creepy crawly tendrils all over the place! It’s hard to…
The New Paris: A Revolution of Words
We are revolutionaries, you see. Writers who have turned our backs on the establishment that didn’t want us and are building our own citadel of words instead. One day soon, we may even storm the Bastille.
MAY, BLOSSOMS AND BIRDSONG
FK MARLOWE NEWS 5 MAY, 2022 Ah May! The blossoms! The birdsong! The torrential blimmin’ BC rain! Loathe to fall for pathetic fallacy as I am, I can’t help thinking the latter is linked to my side job of exam marking. I hope I’ll have conquered the beast mid-month so…