by Thomas Bartlett | Jun 2, 2016 | #ABP, current affairs, Fiction, France, horror, Ireland, life, news, Politics, war |
I read the news today, oh boy. But I don’t know who won the war. Not sure anyone’s won the war in a while now. No longer seems the point. Win the peace they used to say, so quaint. Peace, what good is that? More news is coming to mean less news. And though...
by Thomas Bartlett | May 18, 2016 | #ABP, #writing, current affairs, horror, news, Politics, tragedy |
The Lovely Lone Gunman Theory. Secrecy Kills Jimmy Saville. Brendan Smyth. Lee Harvey Oswald. Marc Dutroux. Secrecy 101: Sully. Isolate. No lesson to learn. A once off. move on. The cosy cloak of secrecy. There is a great moment in Bill Hicks’ repertoire when he...
by Thomas Bartlett | Jul 15, 2015 | #humour, #writing, book, Fiction, horror |
Me Versus the Six Foot Rat Sunk in the sofa, squirrelling away my life, the street had gone quiet. But then this was South Dublin, it was traffic or nothing really. I listened for the familiar sounds of people driving around and around enjoying their lives, nothing....
