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There's An Ape For That...
 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 the description, I discovered that’s not what the AI feature does. It’s even better: It gives you an app! With real-time notifications on whether or not your wash cycle is done. Wow. How did I ever live without that? And there’s more. If there’s a fault, the app may help you troubleshoot the problem with no need to call a technician. Although if not, you’ll probably need a technician and an IT specialist to fix the fault. Mega-Wow! At what point did technology stop being at all useful? I’d like to know what you think, but I’ll start us off by saying sometime after 1933 and before, say, 2013? 1933 because that was the year King Kong came out, and when they were making it, everybody said, stick a man in a monkey suit. It’ll be fine. But producers Cooper & Schoedsack stood firm and went for stop-motion and all sorts of other cutting-edge tricks. It’s why the film still ranks as one of the best ever made. And while everyone knows what happened to Kong, few people remember the tragic events that led to the death of my great-great-great-grandfather, Mincer Delaney, on the night of the premiere. If you haven’t seen it yet, then click here, where I – like Mincer – reveal all! Chat soon, Morgan P.S. 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...
Raise your glasses to the masses! This week I smashed past a massive 100,000 words of the latest Alumière adventure, The Cat Wore Black! 100,000 words is about the length of To Kill a Mockingbird. And I’m only about 80-ish% through the book. Don’t worry, though. I’m a messy writer, and this is the first draft. Once I pull out the Red Pen and start deleting, that word count will come right back down again. I reckon the finished Cat will clock in at a respectable 75,000-80,000 like the others....
You think you’ve seen it all… I’m friends with the stray dogs in our local park. The people working in the park feed the dogs, and I supply the tickles (and additional treats). Then the bloody birds ruined it. What should have been a win-win situation has turned into a catastrophe. The dogs get food – and tickles. The blackbirds get whatever’s left. But the birds wanted more. So they started pecking at the oldest dog, who only has three legs, to hurry him on before he’s finished. They sneak...
We want to try every restaurant in Tbilisi before we leave this summer. I can’t recommend last night’s restaurant. The food tasted fine, but the decor included a film projector projecting some old Georgian film. I know it’s Georgian because 90% of the action was people eating and drinking. The walls were stuffed with pictures, paintings, and various vintage bits and bobs, so they projected the film across the top of one wall and part of the ceiling. To be specific, the actors – mostly sitting...