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Hello. Are you a real seagull, because that would be awesome?

It's better than nothing. This month is the first time I've had money in the bank for as long as i can remember. I checked my balanced and shocked myself that i'm not broke!

Here's a dark one about immortality. Advanced Training He sat alone in the cold, dark room. The features were lit softly from the light of the moon as it hung with austere elegance in the sky behind a pane of armoured glass that showed a truly spectacular view of the city behind him. He sat in silen...

My first properly supported novel is coming out soon, it's a motorcycle travel book about my road-trip from London to Asia. My fictional stuff is in development hell right now, going through proofing and publishing. It take a long time. We're always looking for beta-readers. In case you didn't know,...

Sorry to say this, but why do you feel its your problem? If people are doing drugs at school then that’s obviously a problem and it’s an issue that needs to be dealt with. But it’s not your problem, and you have enough of your own to be dealing with. It worries me that you’re so invested in this whi...

It's very difficult to answer this while remaining positive. It worries me that you want to be depressed. If you're using things like depression and other labels (such as gender) to define who you are as a person then you've got a very difficult journey ahead of you. If you're saying that you are re...

Funny you should say that, Douglas Adams is my hero! My dream was always to meet him but he passed away some time ago. My first fictional novel is very much influenced by his work. Here's another story. This is an educational tool that was designed to help the students understand how to write. I was...

Fingers crossed! I'm selling the X, I think. It's so impractical that's it's a bit too much.

I know I'm not changing the world out here but you do make little differences to people in a positive way and that's what keeps me going. I had an email last week from a student who I've not heard from since 2016. She wanted a reference for an internship at the American embassy, and I was her favour...

Here's another... I got into writing the short stories as a teaching aid. This one was to prove a point that you can create a narrative from anything. We were discussing identity and this story made a point about that. Enjoy! The Glass Spaceship. He was a strikingly handsome man, he had a powerful, ...

Sadly it's not an option. I'm living in the capitol, which is the only place I can earn decent money. I'm here for 6 months, getting us out of the financial mess we're in. She's in a small town with her family. She's at work now and the grandparent watch out son during the day. It's not an ideal set...

Depression is a terrible thing that makes everything seem so much worse. But it's not all bad, there are things we're all proud of, little splinters of light at the end of the tunnel. What are the things about yourself and your life that make it bearable? Here's mine... 1) I'm a vegetarian. I know t...

I'm an English teacher working in SE Asia. I hear stories like this all the time, and worse, unfortunately. I really wish i had some good advice for you but I don't. Just be careful not to fall into any traps, if you know what I mean. There is no easy way out, it's one day at a time and it's a strug...

Weekends are bad for me and this one has been the worst for a while. I've not spoken to anyone today at all. We're having random power cuts across town so I spent the morning in a coffee shop alone. I usually meet a friend in the afternoon but he was busy. I was invited out last night but I didn't g...