This flash fiction piece came out in the magazine DECEMBER @december_mag over five months ago. I’m sharing the story now. Humbled to have my work appear in a place that published Joyce Carol Oates and Raymond Carver.

@AaronBastani I think i would rather call it "pragmatic nihilism".

A flash fiction of mine came out yesterday with Marrow magazine. It’s called “A Ghost Story”. Many thanks to Caitlin Woolley for accepting the piece.

@ThraxMaximilian Hasek and Pascal!

One of my favorite ghost stories on screen is an old Indian film by the great director Satiyajit Ray – Monihara (1961), based on an famous story by Tagore. Don’t let the flickering, scratchy, b/w feel of the film put you off – it has some chilling moments, and is way ahead of its time in its exploration of ghostliness, property and desire. Eerie soundtrack, too.

@AaronBastani this is what happens after 20 years of a market-friendly political class overseen by a market-friendly media class.

My top ten list of literary criticism – no. 6: Eliot Weinberger on translating the Bible (or trying to).

@JamesSchannep Not obnoxious at all - I'm happy for you. Good luck with it.

@bernardtjoy weirdly, I first came across this poem - without knowing the author - in S. E. Hinton's The Outsiders.

@AaronBastani You're doing such a good job, Aaron, exposing this pack of thieves for the inverterbrates they are. Wish the UK had a media class with even a remote idea of their task.

Just read two stories that genuinely creeped me out. “The Removal” is the story of a move which turns out to have some odd aspects to it; Alison Moore's “The Junction” is an uncomfortable story about a man who has a car accident at a junction in the countryside – and ends up befriending the man who hit him. I love low-key, underrated horror where less is always more. @nightjarpress @iancritchley4

@mm_kaufman @IdentityTheory Nice piece. I liked how you closed it.

@bernardtjoy most probably Ithaca - it's such a clever use of form- but of course the final monologue will be on many people's comments.

This week, I’ve had two bits of good news. 1. Finally got a piece accepted in the @LAReview , after three fails. 2. Got my second nomination within a week for Best Small Fictions prize, this time for my piece “History Lessons” in @forge_litmag . Many thanks to both these journals.

Nice piece by @kamilashamsie in the current issue of the @BarcelonaReview . The only other thing I’ve ever read of hers is HOME FIRE, a contemporary British-Muslim take on Antigone, which I loved.

@bernardtjoy Spinoza could be influenced by commie ideas before they had even happened! that's the sign of a true Godless atheist.

@AaronBastani tbh he was never the brightest spark to begin with.

@MarkdeSilva1 There are lines from it that simply stay in the head (White Noise, too). "the urgent sexual throb of the washing machine"

@TinyWriterLaura amazing opening line. You should read other stuff JK Rowling wrote, too.

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