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John McCarthy

John McCarthy

3,000ish quite personal words about 2020

A new year is more than just another tally scraped through the Live, Laugh, Love print of the prison wall — it’s a time for introspection.

Jan 3, 2021

3,000ish quite personal words about 2020

Jan 3, 2021

John McCarthy

Skyscraper

She pedalled a baby blue bike down a debris-covered road once the sole domain of the automobile.

Jun 17, 2020

Jun 17, 2020

John McCarthy

Venice’s Mirror Man

Everyone knows of the palatial (and highly reflective) mirror factory in central Venice. It’s known around the world. It’s creeping mass…

Jun 14, 2020

Jun 14, 2020

John McCarthy

How to be an International Man Day

Smash a wine bottle, spit off a really tall bridge, put a firework through the letterbox of a sex offender, pee on snow, eat a kebab with…

Nov 20, 2017

Nov 20, 2017

John McCarthy

The Week in News

North Korea catapulted a trash can, a couple of miles over Japan, sphincters clenched as the bogey took flight, but Kim’s engineers are to…

Sep 1, 2017

The Week in News

Sep 1, 2017

John McCarthy

Birth

Was it something she ate? She was late. Fate, it had been quite a wait.

Jun 22, 2017

Birth

Jun 22, 2017

John McCarthy

The Tragic Tale of Dr Banksy’s Monster

‘It lives,’ exclaimed a hunchbacked assistant in unrestrained excitement as the thunder of the titans lit the sky in terror illuminating…

Jun 20, 2017

The Tragic Tale of Dr Banksy’s Monster

Jun 20, 2017

John McCarthy

Beyond the Bowl

A dozen shimmering goldfish call the aquarium home.

Jun 17, 2017

Beyond the Bowl

Jun 17, 2017

John McCarthy

London — Brainstream

Better get a good sleep for this early flight… a few chapters won’t hurt. [Several hours later] That was a good book but the taxi’s here…

Jun 14, 2017

Jun 14, 2017

John McCarthy

A Hunger for Knowledge

“There came a point, when we collectively decided, we, as a people, perhaps ought to no longer exist,” explained the esteemed political…

May 31, 2017

A Hunger for Knowledge

May 31, 2017

John McCarthy

John McCarthy

I’m a writer. Maybe someone will adapt my stories into comics. or games. or award-winning TV series that crashes and burns in the final season.

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