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The Plague of Morgans
 when I visited my granny in England, people thought I was a burglar. I loved visiting my granny, but – let’s be honest here – she was a few years older than me, so occasionally things felt a little slow for a young lad full of beans on toast. One time I decided to see how many laps of the house I could do in ten minutes. She lived at the end of a row of terraced houses, so I would start in the front garden, run inside, out through the kitchen door into the back garden, then onto the bin, over the wall, back through the alley and into the front garden again. I reckoned I could do 15, maybe even 20 laps. In fact, I did four before I bumped into a neighbour at the front door. She had come around to warn my gran about a suspicious character she had seen hopping over my gran’s wall, again and again. Although she ruined my chance to do 20 laps, I didn’t mind. What are you supposed to think when you see the same young lad constantly diving over the wall of a house where you know an elderly woman lives alone? Either it’s a gang of identical robbers… or a plague of Morgans. Neither of which you’d have to worry about in Hawkinge-By-Hythe. There’s not much crime there. On the other hand, they do have a family of identical scientific sisters… and when a mysterious man from Luxembourg arrives in town, he seems to bring a plague of rats with him. You can find out what happens when the locals are up against the wall in The Phoenix here now Chat soon, Morgan More Morgan? Get 2 of my books free here: morgandelaney.info/newsletter |
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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,...