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Many years ago I used to write/improvise stories on twitter. I would take an idea and run with it, see where it lead me. In this case, almost literally. The story is presented here as it was originally, in the form of tweets (which are limited to 140 characters) - typos, misspellings and other infelicities included. The Length Of String One of those dull but...

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These words started life as ‘tweets’ on Twitter where I spend a fair bit of time. They were written 'live', just as I thought of them, and tweeted to my followers.  Tweets are restricted to 140 characters so they are presented in this form, although you have to imagine each ‘stanza’ vying for attention on someone’s screen among an ever unfolding stream of other people’s...

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I made a brief appearance in a new Meat Bingo short, called… er… "Appearance". Filmed at the recent book launch for Charlie Higson's latest novel, "The Sacrifice", at Exmouth Community College, the film integrates footage from the day (Charlie giving a speech, signing books, etc.) with dialogue specially written for the occasion by David Quantick. We 'borrowed' Charlie (or Mr Higson as he was on the day, observing proper school...

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