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Words spoken at a funeral.

If you are asked to look back on a person’s life, or your relationship with that person, you are quite often asked, ‘What picture comes to…

3 min readNov 2, 2022

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A blank sheet of paper.

They say that a blank sheet of paper frightens some people.

3 min readJul 2, 2022

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A blank sheet of paper.

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A fall in the Autumn

Most of the short fiction that I write is actually quite long, a fair few thousand words at least. I’m not sure why. I suppose those…

5 min readMay 2, 2022

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Cut and dried.

Yesterday morning we cut two fields of hay and it has barely stopped raining since.

2 min readAug 17, 2021

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Cut and dried.

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ANYTHING TO DECLARE

My second collection of short stories, VISCERA, has just been published by Climbing Tree Books. This very short piece of fiction was the…

2 min readAug 3, 2021

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Writing is all about hard work and dedication, isn’t it?

‘Are you going to do a dedication for the book?’ asked the big boss, my sensei, William the publisher.

4 min readMay 7, 2019

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Writing is all about hard work and dedication, isn’t it?

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I took some luncheon today with Mr Essex.

We discussed our upcoming venture, to wit the publication of a number of short stories I have seen fit to write.

2 min readMar 10, 2019

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I took some luncheon today with Mr Essex.

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Sea you can walk on. Land that drowns.

In the winter, the beach is a painting. A smudged landscape, sea-grey and sky-blue, where charcoal stick figures throw balls for dogs and…

3 min readNov 27, 2018

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Sea you can walk on. Land that drowns.

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Poor old Facebook. Or, “Why Are There so Few Really Good Ads on There”

Facebook wants to be a paid-for advertising media.

6 min readMar 26, 2016

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OIOIOO OOI OOOOIII, OOIO OOIOIO IO OOIOIOO OOI OOOIOO?

I spend a huge amount of my time working in the digital space, whatever that means. And I sometimes wonder whether reducing words, concepts…

2 min readFeb 23, 2016

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simon minchin

simon minchin

A quick espresso or a shot - or a short story - the perfect pleasure. A new world or fresh idea at a length you enjoy in one sitting. https://simonminchin.com/

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