Matthew Sylvester
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Well & Truly Sporked! – Another story accepted!
I’m pleased to announce that last night I received an email saying; I’m happy to tell you that your story was successful at this time. The overall standard of submissions was really high and I have had to make some tough decisions, so the anthology will be slightly larger than intended. This has been accepted … Continue reading
Self-defence – An overview
Self-defence, self-protection, street defence are all buzzwords covering the subject of trying to avoid being attacked and what to do when you are being attacked. There are many excellent courses out there but many people still don’t attend them. Why is this? I personally believe that there are many factors but for me the core … Continue reading
Chubb Fellowes: Is anyone out there?
Range, five hundred metres. Wind, five kloms per hour, easterly. Target moving at walking pace. Breathe in, breath out, breathe in, hold. Squeeze the trigger gently, release and breathe out. Slowly crawl backwards and relocate. The sound that the rifle made would have been hard to distinguish at fifty metres, let alone five hundred. The … Continue reading
Blaise Maximillian – Perfume, the scent of love
Perfume, the good sort, had the ability to make an attractive woman beautiful and a plain woman attractive. The delicate art of perfumery had always captivated Blaise. The way that they took supposedly unrelated scents and oils and mixed them to produce elixirs of beauty entranced him. It truly was the scent of love. One … Continue reading
Blaise Maximillian – A meal ruined again!
Blaise loved the taste of rice pudding. It was the combination of the creamy taste caused by the milk and the lovely sweetness of the sugar. The skin on top was his favourite part, and he relished the way it coated his front teeth as he scraped off from the rather fine piece of silverware … Continue reading
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