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My 10th short story
September 25th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
My latest short story is called “The Face At The Window”. Please give it a read and let me know what you think. Now that work has resumed after the summer break, I’m likely to complete fewer stories that I managed over the summer but, since I’m now attending a course, they might become better.
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My short story writing course (1)
September 23rd, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Two and a half months after I registered for the course and having now written nine short stories for my web site, today I started a course in short story writing at the City Lit in central London. The course is from 10.15 am – 12.15 pm each Wednesday for 12 weeks and our tutor […]
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The conspiracy theory and why it won’t die (1)
September 22nd, 2009 by Roger Darlington
This week, I attended a London event of the Skeptics In The Pub grouping. It was addressed by the writer David Aaronovitch who spoke about his recent book “Voodoo Histories” which is subtitled “The Role of the Conspiracy Theory in Shaping Modern History”. I attended the event with my good friend and fellow skeptic Eric […]
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My ninth short story
September 18th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
My latest short story is a political one entitled “The PM And The MP”. Please have a read and let me know what you think.
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Ten days that shook my world (7)
September 17th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Regular readers of NightHawk may be aware of my experience in the summer when my Internet service provider Pipex managed to cut me off from the Net and take 10 days to restore my connection. If you can bear to read the sorry story, you’ll find it here. Of course, I complained to Pipex and, […]
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My eighth short story
September 11th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Over the summer, Friday has been the day that I’ve posted a new short story in my new writing phase and today is no exception. I’ve now posted my eighth short story which is about relationships and is called “The Dinner Party”. Please check it out and let me know what you think.
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It’s 09.09.09
September 9th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
Maybe the world will end?!? But maybe not. I hope not – I still have a lot of short stories to write …
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From the sublime to the ridiculous
September 8th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
I spent the day attending a meeting of the Communications Consumer Panel and learned that our Ofcom colleagues had no connectivity almost all day thanks to COLT. I got home to find that my fixed line wasn’t working thanks to BT. Once I had fought my way through the company’s automated answering systems, I reported […]
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The summer is over
September 7th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
If you live in Britain, you’ll be saying: what summer? For the third consecutive year, it’s been pretty wet here in the UK. Today effectively I go back to work with the scheduling of a number of meetings in town. During the summer, I didn’t go away (that comes later in the year) and professionally […]
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My seventh short story
September 4th, 2009 by Roger Darlington
The ideas keep flowing and so today I publish my seventh short story entitled “A Moment In Time”. Like the others, it’s different from previous stories, so please check it out and let me know what you think.
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