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Snowstorms
I have magic words that triggerSnowstorms in my mindTempests, gales and hurricanesTo freeze my body in kind Oh frozen, bitter blizzardAll I hear and seeSmall hours of battering windThat howls and haunts through me I want to strip this powerOr smoke you from my skullExorcise these feelingsAnd leave a gentle lull One day I will…
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Pool of the Abyss
(~5,000 words) Content warnings: Depictions of peril My dad had always been a daredevil. For as long as I could remember, every few years, he would get some new crazy idea about quad biking across the Sahara or camping in a reserve in the middle of the Congo. You could always tell the pattern. He…
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Rown Dash
Over the last few months I’ve been making another little game. This time I used an engine called GB Studio, which is designed for making games that can be run on Game Boy and Game Boy Color, though you can still play it in a web browser and is actually really playable on mobile without…
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The Small Town and Global Warming (c.2008)
I came across this today. It’s a short story I wrote for a writing competition about global warming. The page says I was 13 when I wrote it, which means the story would have been written around 2007/8. The writing style is really clunky and I don’t know what I was thinking with that last…
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Poems I Wrote in 2024
Originally I thought I would post all my poems in one post, but since there’s a pretty long gap between the poems I posted in 2023 and the poems I posted in 2024, I decided to split them up. Once again if you want to keep up with any new work that might come out…
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Poems I Wrote in 2023
I don’t write poetry a lot but I have posted a few on my fediverse/Mastodon account in the last two years. So I figured I would put them all together as a sort of recap. You can find 2023 on this page and 2024 here. I’ve been hard at work trying to get funding for…
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[SM] Up: One Man’s Journey To Feminism @ The Hen & Chickens
Next month, I’ll be stage managing for Peter Pruyn’s play followed by audience reflections: Up: One Man’s Journey To Feminism. What does it take for a man to become a feminist—and why does it matter? In seven diverse and poignant vignettes from his own life, Peter Pruyn (“prine”), an American trauma therapist who works with female…
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Blogs, Mastodon and News
Hello folx! This is a quick update to let you know what’s happening with this website. I’ve done a little work on the template and tweaked a few settings behind the scenes. Here’s how I’m going to communicate going forward:
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Bags of Fat: A Play by J. L. Pichelski
On the 27th October, I will be holding a free rehearsed read through of my new play Bags of Fat, at Camden People’s Theatre in London. I am looking for audience feedback and reactions so feel free to come if you’re interested. I’m eager to get this story out to people! For more information as…
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Tower Hill
It’s been a while since I’ve had anything to share, the pandemic has changed a lot of things for me, one of them being a lot of London theatre technicians have left the city, leaving a lot more work for the technicians who were able to stay. So while this bittersweet to say, I have…