Trusted by 500+ fans to find the fun in the funereal, the absurd in the macabre, and delight in the darkness. Join fiction author Morgan Delaney three times a week for genre-bending stories of cozy horror, dark fantasy and a brain with mind of its own...
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Hey Reader, Time for another peek in the typo dictionary. And it finally occurred to me that a pronunciation guide for these brand new words might be helpful! So, without further colloquial English term for having a stylist arrange one’s hair, three letters,* here are the ten hottest new words on the planet this October: bluck, n. (“bluk“) A whale’s underwater sneeze. bouguest, n. (“boo-gest”) An unpleasant feeling of intimacy caused by a casual acquaintance removing their glasses for the first time, revealing their naked, smaller-than-expected eyes. despearte, adj. (“dez-pert”) Keen to enjoy a wonky-shaped apple. Didease, n. (“di-dees“) The final stage of a non-fatal disease. expode, v. (“ekspode“) To finally accept a missing sock has escaped for good and remove the remaining singleton from one’s sock drawer. mopuseman, n. med. (“moe-poos-man”) A man with one or more hollow fingers. meagles, n. (“mee-gals“) The scientific unit of measurement for earwax. nuch, n. (“nutch“) A child’s bouquet, made of grass and pretty weeds snile, v. archaic, of steam train drivers. (“snyle“) Once the furnace has been stoked, to sit out “side-saddle” on the engine. tonly, adv. (“tone-lee”) To give the impression of wearing leather racing gloves. Once I get enough of these, I’m hoping to add some illustrations and publish them as a book, like The Meaning of Liff, from which I obviously got the idea. So if you really like - or hate - them, let me know! *without further ado. “a do,” you see? |
Dark, Strange and Fantastic Fiction
Trusted by 500+ fans to find the fun in the funereal, the absurd in the macabre, and delight in the darkness. Join fiction author Morgan Delaney three times a week for genre-bending stories of cozy horror, dark fantasy and a brain with mind of its own...
I’m reading sci-fi at the moment, though I probably shouldn’t. I’m Irish, and we’re not used to it. When I was growing up, we had six television channels. Four English ones, and two Irish wans. In twenty years, the only sci-fi was Red Dwarf and Doctor Who. Both on the English channels, of course. After all, we Irish only recently started believing in the present. Back in the eighties, we didn’t have roads; we had strips of potholes. Condoms were prescription-only, and six of the island’s...
My mother didn’t have it easy. She didn’t even have a sense of smell. And while the rest of 1980s Ireland had miraculous moving statues, we made do with mysterious margarine. Back in those days, butter was bad and margarine was good, so young Morgan et al. all ate margarine. Sometimes my breakfast toast tasted fine with it. Some mornings the margarine was weird. A brand new tub. Just opened the previous night. I had put it on my evening toast. My mother had put it on her evening potatoes. No...
Families are great. But a lot. If you’ve had about enough of yours, tell them this is a very important email you have to read. I’ll back you up. And it is important, as I present some crazy New Year traditions, that will make your party go with a bang! Killer List of 10 Bread-Based New Year Traditions. 1. At a party, wait until the countdown to the new year starts before throwing a bread roll over your shoulder. You might hit the person you one day marry in the face with it. 2. Villages used...