Tag: fiction

  • The Master and Margarita

    I recently finished reading Mikhail Bulgakov’ *The Master and Margarita* and it was really good. But let me add some context to that. Being a Russian novel, it has been translated into English. Now the prose is excellent and it made me wonder how much liberty did the translator have with the prose. Are there…

  • Apologies for the Delay

    Apologies for the Delay

    We apologise of the delay. The fireworks got out of hand. Drinking and a flare gun never mix well. Neither does a circle of depressive drinkers and a gun which you pretended to load with a single road. Drink enough, someone will be motivated enough to break into the camp of the traveling circus. He…

  • Creative Pubtime

    Today, I was with Kaelee, in our first sort of creative writing thing, where we try to run a little exercise to quickly drum up some fiction and then read each other’s projects. Today’s exercise was to create a short character description, trade then characters and write a short piece about them, as fast as…

  • Under

    Construction is a constant part of this city. Like a living thing, this place is under constant renewal. From the office building I worked in, I would see half a dozen cranes dominate the skyline. They gracefully spin, slowly and surely heaving materials in and out of the sites. I was lucky enough to have…