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November 24, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Neighbourhood Fragments # 9
I was listening to Pip Adam’s podcast. Because I like to listen to Pip Adam’s podcast. She has good guests. She gives good chat. She likes good books (and writes good books) and it’s a fun way to spend 40 minutes (or so). Particularly while walking. (I love podcasts best when I’m walking). The other […]Archive
November 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: I Blame Neil Gaiman
It was probably 6pm when my father dragged Amanda Palmer off the fence and dunked her face in the pool. Almost everyone had been drinking. And now Ms. Palmer had a face full of water. I’d once given her a pretty unkind review way back, but this seemed excessive even to me. I had to […]Archive
September 15, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: The Short And Long Of It
Of all the chronic addictions I am going to guess that masturbation is the hardest one to pull off. And still feel good about yourself.Archive
August 19, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Stubs: # 272 – Litcrawl, Wellington, 2018
Litcrawl is Wellington’s coolest (best) literary event, a spectacular, jam-packed with ideas and showcases – and in 2018 I was lucky to be asked to be part of one of the events. Lucky. And shitting myself. Why not both? The event was called Lit-Sync For Your Life and it featured three readers – I was […]Archive
July 31, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: The Declining
All play and no work makes Jack a broke boy. All play and no work makes Jack a broke boy. All play and no work makes Jack a broke boy. All play and no work makes Jack a broke boy. All play and no work makes Jack a broke boy. All play and no work […]Archive
June 29, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Back In The Loop
We couldn’t go out for a while. So we didn’t. And then we could. So we did. We walked out and about and we looked like we were taking it all with us, big strutting. Everything that is but the kitchen sink. Oh, and also, any stink or trace of when we said that we’d […]Archive
February 4, 2020 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: The CV of a Music Journalist
2001: Desperate to be edgy, hoping to be relevant… 2002 – 2014: Free Tickets 2015 – 2019: Desperate to be relevant, hoping to be edgy… 2020: R.I.P.Archive
October 22, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: Snookered
“You’ve just got to play the long game”, he said to me, while on a break from his short game.Archive
September 25, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: If Bruce Springsteen Wrote Wichita Lineman
Well, Billy was a lineman working for the man down in Darlington County And he’d drive the main road, heart in his mouth, chrome wheeled, fuel injected, Searchin’ in the sun for another overload and steppin’ out over the line One day, he heard Mary singin’, yeah she was singin’ in the wire, All about […]Archive
September 5, 2019 by Simon Sweetman
Short Story: 7 Reasons I’d Never Get Tricked by A Con-Artist
1. I don’t date. 2. I don’t relate. 3. I’ve watched a lot of true-crime TV. And now podcasts… 4. I know my onions. 5. It’s just something that happens to other people. 6. You’d have to be dumb-as-fuck! 7. I’m broke-as-fuck!Archive
June 11, 2019 by Simon Sweetman