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the new lit magazine on the block: The Wanderer’s Post

August 1, 2025December 16, 2025 nesskingsley

My own contribution starts by mentioning the 'annual quarterly budget meeting' so obviously you've got to read *that* story

Tagged books, creative-writing, fiction, lit magazines, magazine, reading, short story, the wanderer's post, writing1 Comment
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the broken shower didn’t dampen my writing retreat | writing diaries #2

March 26, 2025 nesskingsley

The shower ran ALL night.

Tagged book-review, books, fiction, reading, short stories, the road, travel, writing, writing diaries, writing retreat2 Comments
undertones of war by Edmund blunden
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the god of small DNFs | reading log #4

January 28, 2025December 6, 2025 nesskingsley

I've been reading nearly all my life, saving those few years when I was impossibly lazy and also under the age of four.

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photo taken from a boat on the Lake District of a green hill
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unconscious planetary suicide: losing eden by lucy jones

January 6, 2025January 1, 2025 nesskingsley

The politicisation of taking care of the world we live in is a great tragedy; it should be a natural priority to us. Taking care of it, takes care of us.

Tagged environment, losing eden, Lucy jones, natural world, nature, reading1 Comment
reading a book whilst sitting at a table with a cup of tea, a teapot, and a book on it
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2024: book snapshots

December 31, 2024December 31, 2024 nesskingsley

Did it make me want to abandon the world to retreat to peaceful lands and a barren room with a cross and the ever present scent of feral cat pee? No. Did it plant a book idea in my brain? Oh yes, yes it did indeed.

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