Read part 1 here; read part 2 here. or, The Time-Fliers “As the spring crept into summer my days seemed imbued with an uncanny quality from which, despite my best efforts, I could not struggle ...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2015/01/22/the-glassborough-chronicle-part-3-of-3/
Read part 1 here or, The Time-Fliers woke some hours later. My pallor was such that I would have frightened not only Scrooge but Mr Dickens himself a little nearer to the grave. I stood and—f...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2015/01/13/the-glassborough-chronicle-part-2-of-3/
or, The Time-Fliers suppose the story begins, as so many stories of our time, with a tragedy; a death. Mary, the wife of my dear friend the writer and naturalist Edward Willis, passed through t...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/the-glassborough-chronicle-part-1-of-3/
I think Jesus knows I’m nuts so why would he arraign me in front of all those saints on high so sane they’ll never see me skipping down the road at dawn and not a soul behind me. Funnel clo...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/07/29/i-think-jesus/
We’ve had some great new writers as well as old hands at Snake-Oil HQ over the past two weeks. Here’s what you missed: Monday – Poetry Phlegmatic by Holly Painter Wednesday – Poetry...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/07/14/dr-hurleys-digest-vol-iii-issues-15-17/
After reading too much Aquinas Would an aphid reside in an onager’s ear if the onager’s master spoke Twi? Or a Gascony scop with a leper elope if a civet leapt out of a tree? You doubt it? Re...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/07/10/let-any-agnostic-provide-a-reply/
Just before Ranulph begins shooting the crows, I tell Sarah that the birds know about the absence of light. She stares out the window, transfixed by the wheeling cloud, her hands wrapped around h...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/07/05/something-about-the-days-getting-shorter/
I’d Much Rather Use A Mop Than A Fancy Machine Step Me Up Because It Cusses And Fusses And Falls Apart And Cost A Pretty Buck When All You Need Is A Stick And Yarn Like Strings That Will Do The...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/07/03/the-new-machine/
I thought of including phlegm in this book. But phlegm is almost exactly like it sounds: the sticky mucus that coats your throat, choking you until you expel it with a round of wet coughs that si...
This week featured some great fiction from Craig Davis and some lovable monstrosities from Gaetan Vanparijs. Monday – Art Impression № 061: Saucissapattes by Gaetan Vanparijs Friday – Fi...
https://snakeoilcure.wordpress.com/2013/06/23/dr-hurleys-digest-vol-iii-issue-14/