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Pull Yourself Together
 you know what I hated while growing up? Curtains. In particular, the ones in my bedroom. They were a deadly beige with enormous brown… What are they called? Paisleys? Those swirly amoeba-blobs that make up a paisley pattern. Dreadful-looking things with swollen heads and swirls that gave them arms and legs. And because the window let in a draught – what we called “getting fresh air” in those days – the curtains swayed in and out, making it look like the paisley monsters were marching towards me as I lay in bed. Every morning when I woke up, those damned curtains would wave at me, as much as I wished they wouldn’t. It was always a relief to get up and leave the bedroom behind. Speaking of which, I’ve got a brand-new, lovely little – or should that be weird and creepy? – bedtime story for Valentine’s Day for you over on YouTube. Find out why it’s best not to peer too closely at your loved one while they sleep in “Love’s Curse,” right here! Chat soon, Morgan More Morgan? Get 2 of my books free here: morgandelaney.info/newsletter |
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...
Poe did more than just write fiction, you know. He was one of America’s leading literary critics, as well as being interested in physics and cosmology. And he was almost certainly the first man in America to use the CRISPR gene-editing technology. Right? I couldn’t believe it at first either, but it says so on Wikipedia. Look: You see? First he became editor of the Journal, and then he became editor of its owner. I found that while researching Poe again this week. I’d researched him before...
Have you looked at a washing machine recently? We’ll need a new one when we move countries, and the last one we bought was maybe in 2013 in Australia. So, at the weekend I spent an hour tentatively dipping my toe into the shopping pool to see how warm the water is, and HOLY MOLY! You can buy washing machines with AI now! I was so excited. Imagine. A washing machine that’ll wander around the house picking up washing, sorting it into piles, washing it and hanging it up for us! But when I read...
great news! In fact, great newses, because I have two! The first one will come as a relief to everyone who’s been struggling to keep up with the tsunami of nonsense on YouTube, etc. I’ve been posting five videos of nonsense (but top-notch nonsense, if I do say so myself) every week for the last six weeks for a challenge. Now that I’ve won the challenge, I’m dialling it back to three a week, in response to urgent warnings by brain specialists that humanity can’t take it much longer. In future,...