Ricky – not short for anything, and simply named so because his dad liked it and had apparently decided that’s what he’d call their only son. Ricky was an alleged disappointment from the very beginning….
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To Judge or not to Judge
That is the Answer Imagine that life is a sliding scale of feminine to masculine and that there is no right or wrong. You don’t have to be any one thing and you can choose…
The Cigar Shaped Object
A musing on the origins of Oumuamua As the sun grew brighter, and the days longer, I noted the temperament of those around me darken. My Father – a self-confessed recluse who watched the world…
When Harry Married Henry
Henry couldn’t remember not hating his name. He’d always felt that it belonged in black and white movies. By the time he’d turned 20, he was better known as Hank. Hank thought Sydney Harbor’s Boys’…
The Spiral
The Spiral Why Am I So Invisible? You’re so handsome. Those lightly colored cheeks, and that slightly narrow nose and those full lips that make me think of pasta sauce. Your green eyes as the…
Send Me an Angel
Send Me an Angel The sound beyond the door was unmistakably that of footsteps. They drew closer, causing Luca to tighten his grip on the quilt and pull it over half of his face. Though…
Is Aging a Disease?
Is Aging a Disease? Homosexuality was considered a disease as recently as in 1974, yet as of 2018, homosexuals (doesn’t that oversized word conjure up images of beefy, hairy men in chaps?) can marry in…
Suing God, I Am Suing You
Dear God, I Am Suing You I am taking Legal and Moral action against you. I hereby lodge criminal proceedings against you, for the following list of crimes: Criminal Negligence causing bodily harm Fraud and…
Turn That Frown Upside Down
Turn That Frown Upside Down The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the whole truth about happiness. All you need to do is turn that frown upside down. I’ve got a secret. My smile…
Stay Afloat, Don’t Drown, Be Positive and Be Happy
Stay Afloat, Don’t Drown, Be Positive and Be Happy Laugh and the world laughs with you, weep and you weep alone – from Ella Wheeler’s poem from 1883 titled, “Solitude”. A lesson in how to…
Death’s Been Knocking on the Door
Death’s Been Knocking on the Door The family chatted loudly and with great passion and animation as the car idled on the sidewalk, forcing Sunday strollers to detour around it, while I – with all…
Humans are Alien Babies from Long, Long Ago
Humans are alien babies from long, long ago In Circle in the Sand – I’ve hypothesised that humans lived on Mars, before moving to Earth. I also hint that humans may have evolved even before…
What happens to us when we Die?
What happens to us when we Die? I refuse to believe that there’s an empty void waiting for us at the end of our lives. What happens to us when we die? Remember when we…
The Changing Landscape
The Changing Landscape Times, they are a-changing. Women are wearing pant-suits and cutting their hair short, while men grow ponytails (top-knots) and wear dresses, and gay men and women are legally marrying. This marks the…
The Meaning of Time and Other Cyclical Nonsense
The Meaning of Time and Other Cyclical Nonsense A Pointless Short Story. Or is it? “Let’s do this,” he asked her, it was a question – but sounded like it wasn’t. “You know what’s going…
An Amazon Drone is Gonna Start Dropping From the Sky!
An Amazon Drone is Gonna Start Dropping From the Sky! Or some fucking redneck’s gonna shoot ’em If I told you that an Amazon drone is about to deliver directly to your apartment in London…
The Alien Agenda is to Shove Hot Pokers up your Bum
The Alien Agenda Somewhere on Uranus, a group of egg-headed, mustard-coloured, yellow aliens with eyes remarkably similar to a Pokemon’s are scheming the demise of the human race. The biggest obstacle to the alien agenda…
They Can’t Come Back
They Can’t Come Back Nothing can ever replace them. It’s not a gap; a void – a shadow that tries to fill a space that someone once occupied. Where they once stood, you’ll always see…
The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars
The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars The Chances of Anything Coming from Mars…or going there, for that matter…aren’t that slim anymore. It’s deeply ingrained in us to be unhappy with what we have. We’ll…
Night Terrors
Night Terrors Another victim scrambles for the light switch At some point during my teen years, I discovered that I would never sleep in a dark room due to continual night terrors that had plagued…
What to do if your phone is stolen
What to do if your phone is stolen Don’t panic, they don’t want your data I wish I’d read useful ‘what to do if your phone is stolen’ advice over two weeks ago. I’d left…
Aliens and the Afterlife
Aliens and the Afterlife Where did we come from? There are several species of aliens out there and some have even been in contact with certain people on Earth. Though those people aren’t necessarily those…
Where Do We Go When We Die?
Where Do We Go When We Die? The catholics believe that we go to heaven and the bad people go to hell and that’s what I was taught as a child by strict, Roman Catholic…
How to Become Famous in 24 Hours and Lose Weight in the Process
How to Become Famous in 24 Hours and Lose Weight in the Process And other nonsensical suggestions for you The best advice anyone will give you about how to become famous is by considering what…
Circles in the Sand
Circles in the Sand I’ve been thinking about death a lot lately, because as I write this, Monique has rapidly declined in health. At this point in time, while in a hospice in North London,…
The Meaningful Ribbon
The Meaningful Ribbon We sail through our lives, often without a care. Things flow smoothly – sure, there are ups and downs, but they are just bumps and hurdles that we quickly overcome, but generally,…
We All Get The Holiday Blues
Holiday Blues The minute you arrive at home – after a trip away, the holiday blues set in. I’ve just returned from a two week trip to Italy, where I caught up with family and…
How Much Sex Is Too Much Sex?
How Much Sex Is Too Much Guilty. I’m dirty-minded, perverted, deviant. Yet still, I wonder how much sex is too much? I’ve written sex scenes that are pretty…um, explicit. Because it fits into the story…
Why its Ok Being Weird and Other Terrible Advice
Why its Ok Being Weird and Other Terrible Advice Should I Conform to the Sheeple? I’m going to tell you a little secret. STOP BEING BORING and trying to be like everyone else. It’s not…
New Short Gay Fiction Story
New Short Gay Fiction Story Because Short Stories are so Easy to Read For those of you who enjoyed my Short Gay Fiction Story – A Boy Called Q and the sequel – The Life…
Going Full Circle
Going Full Circle A popular theory amongst certain scientists is that time is not linear, it is cyclical. Try and get your head around this: the future has already happened and the past is yet…
Chasing Butterflies
Chasing Butterflies Like a curious child full of hope and desire, I’m chasing butterflies. I’ve thought about it so much that I feel that I’ve spent my entire life obsessing over it. I’ve had it,…
What is a Digital Nomad
What is a Digital Nomad And how to find them… What is a digital nomad? It’s people like me who work online and digitally and quite often don’t have offices. That doesn’t mean we’re homeless…
We Seem to be Angry all the Time
We Seem to be Angry all the Time Road rage The information superhighway gets me what I want and fast. But what frustrates the hell out of me is how real life highways are incredibly…
Monique’s a Shining Light and Star so Bright
Monique’s a Shining Light and Star so Bright The star of my first book is gravely ill The news is grim. In early February of 2017, Kelly-Ann, also known as Monique, couldn’t shake a cough…
Why WE Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves
Why WE Should Be Ashamed of Ourselves Because we created a world filled with terror. We created ISIS. When the US led NATO went in and destabilized the Middle East, we left millions of people…
Is Cannabis Oil a Cancer Cure or Hype?
Is Cannabis Oil a Cancer Cure or Hype? When a loved one’s life hangs in the balance, we want any cancer cure Because you, or someone you know has cancer or you’ve simply heard the…
Think Like a Millennial or Risk Being in the Dark
Think Like a Millennial Because things are done faster, smarter…or not done at all. What is a Millennial generation anyway? Why is it so important for so many people to understand the importance to think…
Hollywood Romance Books
Hollywood Romance Books I did it. I wrote and published my first Hollywood Romance Novel. Phew. Imagine if you were thrown into the spotlight at just 16. How would you cope? What would change in…
Writing about Sex Rape and Drugs
Writing about Sex Rape and Drugs Imagine that YOU are my next book I’m a perverted, disgusting, filthy-minded man who writes about topics which nearly always feature sex rape and drugs. But not just normal,…
Being Original When Being Genuine is Better
Being Original Can’t be original? Be genuine instead. Being original is almost…dare I say it, impossible. It’s all been done before. The art of originality has been lost, convoluted, diluted, shaken and stirred – then…
Must Read and Best Books for 2017
Best Books Where are those hidden gems? My best books. Nothing beats curling up with a hot drink (or a strong vino) in your favorite reading spot, reading the best books. A book will take…
Pop Singers
Pop Singers Glitz, Glamor and Candy for your Ears Teenagers are sexually growing beings who obsess over something that gives them escapism. Some people love to read, others get lost in a movie or a…
Is Bromance Gay?
Is Bromance Gay? No smart person could question… is bromance gay? Especially if they understood what Bromance is. A bromance is a close relationship between two guys that isn’t sexual in nature and usually very intense. In…
Remaining Positive in Difficult Times
Remaining Positive in Difficult Times And avoiding the shitstorm that life often throws at us Lesson number 1, don’t talk politics with others, even friends and family. We all have an opinion and are entitled…
Reality is a Distortion Created by Hollywood
Reality is a Distortion Created by Hollywood But is that a good thing or a bad thing? Aliens with acid for blood managed to wipe out an entire ship, while Darth Vader went over to…
The Magician
The Magician Trump’s Sleight of Hand The world is in awe of the greatest magician history has ever seen. Donald Trump’s sleight of hand is unbeatable. He is, without question, the magician of the century…
Should Parenting Require a License?
Should Parenting Require a License? Child abuse, drug abuse – who decides whether parenting require a license? It’s none of your business whether or not your neighbor’s are bad parents. Or is it? What if…
Accidentally Entering Cougar Town – Turn Back Now!
Meanwhile in Cougar Town Accidentally Cougar Town Liesel had a hangover, but still she made it to work, even if the bags under her eyes were big enough for a grocery shop and the bottom…
How to Broach a Difficult Subject and Risk Losing Someone
How to Broach a Difficult Subject Are You Being a Friend or a Foe? It’s incredibly difficult isn’t it? Telling someone something that they probably don’t want to hear. But if you don’t tell them,…
Is Trump Going to Cause WW3?
Is Trump Going to Cause WW3? The 100 Day Plan Is Scary When I wrote my apocalyptic novel Mr 303, I researched top reasons why we’d experience an apocalypse. I chose a virus, because it…
Visit Your Home Town
Visit Your Home Town When Memories Are Better Than The Visit We grow as people; some of us more than others. When you leave a place and move on, you expect to return to some…
Reviews and How to Get FREE Stuff
Reviews The New Customer Service Satisfaction Proof and How to get Free Stuff Once upon a time, before the intenet, businesses received letters from satisfied customers letting them know that their product or service was…
Humans in the Future
Humans in the Future The Exciting Prospects Have you ever thought of humans in the future and wondered what our great grandchildren will be like? Ever wondered if we will have colonised Mars and have…
Books About Life Lessons
Books About Life Lessons The Tough Stuff That’s Hard to Read If you’d asked me a year ago whether I’d be writing full-time on books about life lessons, I would have laughed. Then life got…
The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog
The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog There are too many holes for this to be true The Quick Brown Fox Jumped Over the Lazy Dog. But was the dog lazy? Or is…
Latest Gay Book – The Life of Q Continues
Latest Gay Book The Life of Q This latest gay book – not because I write gay books exclusively, but because I started on the theme and have to finish what I started – is…
Age is Just a Number
Age Is Just A Number And numbers can be inconsequential I talked to a 20 year old recently about the idea of a world without money this week, because I’m compiling information for a new…
Meaningless Sex Is No Longer Meaningful
Meaningless Sex Is No Longer Meaningful Sex that becomes meaningless, when it started off with the sole purpose of being meaningless Most guys think about sex a lot; it’s quite natural. Me? I write about…
Living Without Money
Living Without Money Can We Do It? I often fantasize about a world without money. This fantasy can get a little utopian… there’s a certain medieval feel to it and I imagine people doing things…
Toxic Friendships and Why We Tolerate Them
Toxic Friendships No matter how long you’ve known some people, you’re going to realise one day that they might have changed. Most of the time that’s a good thing; growth is good for all of…
The Peace Ambassador
The Peace Ambassador A Story About Resolving Terrorism I had a dream…and throughout the night, I kept coming back to a story I created that was so real to me, that I woke up in…
Dealing With a Break Up
Dealing With a Break Up Break Ups Suck – And Other Unhelpful Advice When Dealng With a Break Up “I’m really fine! I’m feeling great, positive and optimistic; I have so much else to look…
Getting Citizenship in Italy
Getting Citizenship in Italy If you’ve been following along, you will know through my Permesso di Soggiorno part 1 that I arrived in Italy on the 5th of January, 2016 and I’ve been through the…
PokemonGo Hacked
Here’s a fun way to make lots of enemies around the world in one day, bring down PokemonGo – the new smartphone game that’s literally taken the world by storm. There could be far worse…
Top Steps to a Better Website
Top Steps to a Better Website Trying to work out why you aren’t appearing in Google results? Here’s some quick and easy tips on how to enhance performance, which will ultimately help you get closer…
The New Apartment Part Three
The New Apartment Part Three Ghosts in Florence – This is a continuation from Part Two… As the spring gently blended into summer, John spent the first couple of weeks getting to know Florence and…
New Gay Themed Book Causes a Stir
New Gay Themed Book Causes a Stir I wrote a short gay themed book and was a little shocked to see it cause quite a stir. While I had a feeling that a section of…
Imprisonment in Italy
Imprisonment in Italy My life of crime Guilty. I’m locked up and the key has been thrown far and yonder. I’m in imprisonment in Italy and all because I dared to reacquire my Italian Citizenship….
Is the Apocalypse Coming?
Is the Apocalypse Coming? Part 1 I wrote a book about the apocalypse and now I’m worried Perhaps you’ve read Mr 303 and came here looking for Part Two. Or maybe you’re looking for a glimpse of…
The Life of Q
The Life of Q Please do not read the following unless you have already read A Boy Called Q as it contains spoilers. This post is about the sequel, The Life of Q …OUT NOW…
Why Are People So Angry
Why Are People So Angry? When I was young – which to me feels like approximately 400 years ago – I didn’t see signs warning you not to attack the bus driver because heavy penalties…
Permesso di Soggiorno Part Three Residenza Elettiva
Permesso di Soggiorno Part Three – Residenza Elettiva The insane chronicles – Residenza Elettiva Whoever told you that moving to Italy would be filled with lots wine and good food, sunsets overlooking historically magnificent statues,…
Toby – A Male Escort’s Journey
Toby – A Male Escort’s Journey Toby – a sample chapter is below. This is the beginning of the story, where it all begins. Dallas, Texas – Present Day Pelting rain against the back of…
Sian – A Sample Chapter Mr 303 Part Two
Sian A Sample Chapter From Mr 303 Part Two The following is a sample chapter called Falling Stars, about Sian – a character from Mr 303 Part One and Two. Please note that this has…
It Feels Like the Apocalypse Today
It Feels Like the Apocalypse Today Nothing heralds the end of times more than waking up to no gas and no water. Yes, that’s right folks, if you’re in Florence – Italy today, nobody had…
A Medici Brilliance in English
A Medici Brilliance in English A cultural 1 hour rundown of 300 years of Medici rulings Fuck me. I got lucky and managed to get myself invited along to a Medici brilliance in English, right…
A Successful Author Spotlight on Reddit
A Successful Author Spotlight on Reddit WOW! What a night that was and so much fun too. 2,000 upvotes and over 350 comments and I thought I was going to get ignored on my very…
Wrong House Mother Fucker
Wrong House Mother Fucker When I was living in Perth, Australia, this red-back spider made the stupid mistake of coming into my house. Because as humans we react with fear, I grabbed a can of…
Apocalypse Is Coming
Apocalypse Is Coming It’s not just preppers, conspiracy theorists and wild-eyed ‘the aliens are coming’ enthusiasts who think the Apocalypse Is Coming. There’s signs of those who think the world as it is today, is…
Ending with a Preposition
Ending with a Preposition Eat My Prepositions Bitch You’ve been lied to. Yes, ending with a preposition is perfectly acceptable and in fact, encouraged in fictional writing. Often, when writing a story, unless you do…
Living La Vida Italiano
Living La Vida Italiano This is a side post to my Permesso di Soggiorno which I’m currently acquiring in order to regain Italian citizenship. And boy, what a ride it is. From being sent to…
Herbie and Kayla – Excerpt from Mr 303
Herbie and Kayla – Excerpt from Mr 303 The following is an excerpt from Mr 303, my new book which was released on March 31st, 2016. Available now on Amazon. Herbie drove along the freeway…
The Apocalypse Book Release
The Apocalypse Book Release It’s an exciting day for an author after many months of writing, re-writing, editing, re-editing, re-writing, re-editing, deleting, re-writing…ok you get the picture. Months of perfecting a story finally comes to…
Trolls on Forums
Trolls on Forums It is so easy to tell someone that they are a piece of shit human being when you are hiding your own ugly, puss-filled face behind a keyboard. You’re completely anonymous –…
Sexual Identity
Sexual Identity Identification Labels and Other Corrections So, over the last few months, as I’ve been writing a book about a bisexual prostitute living in Barcelona, I did a ton of research on sexuality and…
Getting Old and Looking Older
Getting Old and Looking Older Whether you’re 25 and starting to get concerned with some hairloss, or 45 and worrying about bags under your eyes…oh and let’s not forget about wrinkles, at some point, the…
How to Write Your First Book
How to Write Your First Book And get it to sell When you were a kid, you learned to walk, you fell out of tree houses – scraped your knee, maybe even broke a limb…
Amazon Thinks I’m an Idiot
Amazon Thinks I’m an Idiot And after reading this post, I don’t blame them You know when you go to download a book on Kindle? And that thing happens where Amazon goes, “Oh hey Fox,…
People Seem to be Getting Grumpier Part Four
People Seem to be Getting Grumpier Part Four Yet Another Zombie Story In case you missed it, People Seem to be Getting Grumpier Part One started…I don’t know, a few weeks ago. Back up and…
An Inspiring Commercial Photographer
An Inspiring Commercial Photographer Now and again, someone comes along that just makes you proud. I’m not one to brag, but I have met a few famous people, millionaires, top thought-leaders in their fields and…
The Pigeon Drugs n Mafia in Florence
The Pigeon Drugs n Mafia in Florence This story I’ve decided to call The Pigeon Drugs n Mafia in Florence started at my local pub on a Wednesday. My mate Pete had just arrived from…
The New Apartment Part Two
The New Apartment Part Two This is a continuation from The New Apartment Part One Daylight dispels the deepest shadows and as such, John found that his fear melted under the light of the sun….
My ABBA Day
My ABBA Day My ABBA Day started off much like many others, except I had an Abba song stuck in my head. Tiger. That’s how I woke up; to the tune of Tiger by Abba….
Bored Housewives and Sexy Moms
Bored Housewives and Sexy Moms Annie lifted her eyes up toward the ceiling but registered nothing other than the tongue that was deep inside her. She felt him slightly pull it out, cool air rushed…
The New Apartment
The New Apartment The inside of the apartment was almost cold, considering the warm spring day outside. But John liked it, he resonated with it. This is where he would live for the next year…