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Fire collapsed from exhaustion,his paws treading ineffectually in air and soft whimpers emitting from his throat. A chittering sound flew in on a gentle breeze, a sinister aberration making mockery of the surroundings. «No escape, canine!»

A multieyed arachnid, dressed in safari clothing, emerged through the bushes. «No escape, just the illusion of a broken web...»

General Farenhi viewed the open plains of Tucker III through hyperscopes, his hands shaking nervously in a rythmic style. Corpses lay in fallen clumps; whispy smoke issuing from empty eye-sockets formed pockets here and there,gently obscuring the Plainspeople who shuffled about, looting the dead of all physical possessions and gourging themselves on choice morsels of tender carcass. The General frowned,his long tongue dipping out of his black and white snout. Damn carnivores leave nothing for no-one, save the vultures of War, he thought, as he took out a silver case from his uniform and removed some premium grass to chew. Yes Sir, he thought, it's a right old jungle out there.

Done on Amazon Kindle, same night as posting date.

writing a story on kindle

working out the ease of writing on this instrument is not easy but there seems to be a nice, not distracting functionalism to it. Blogger seems to be an acceptable medium from which to write.

It was a cruel winter. Sebastian sat by the field of shrivelled vegetation, thumbing uselessly at his home-made violin. The first strains of sorrow haunted the ruined fields. The sound rose, echoing throughout the fields,the cities,the mansions and the straw huts. The music grew powerful and seeped out the nation; it was a cruel winter.

RUSSIA TO FIGHT WITH GIANT ROBOTS (CTHULHU DISMISSED AS THREAT)

I have just now discovered that 3 years ago, then-President Putin of Russia was asked the question of giant robots and Cthulhu, and replied in the affirmative!

http://www.chaosium.com/article.php?story_id=224

Ok, so maybe he wasn't quite explaIning that we should read the bible or koran to defend ourselves against the Elder God, but...ROBOTS!!!

We need to set up a committee to review the committee!

Can you believe what councils can get up to?

If fact-finding missions to the bahamas were not bad enough, some are now wasting public money on, to quote the Telegraph (Nick Britten), 'chasing their tales'!

Mr Britten reports that Wealden District Council in East Sussex set up a working party to 'scrutinise the council's scrutiny arrangements.'

A council spokesman said the party was to improve services and save money.

Unsurprisingly, the TaxPayers Alliance was on it like a shot!

"the council appear to have wrapped themselves up in knots and ended up in an absurd situation," said Mark Wallace of the Alliance.

"Local residents would prefer they were asked how the council was run instead of adding this extra layer of bureaucracy."

ANALYSIS

The Alliance makes a fair point. Our government has become rather over-bureaucratic for its own good, in all areas. Two examples straight off my head are the police and the trams. 

1. When phoning the police for an explanation as to why their online crime map marks a part of trinity, merton as 'high crime', I was told that the information 'could not be given over the phone.' Eh...why? What am I going to do with it? How is it in any way a danger to society?

2. 'This tram stop is a request stop'...but eh, excuse me, the tram stops at every stop. Waste of time and energy really...

From a news writing eye, the article is too Daily Mail intro, not getting to the sting until the third column.  Not what I'd want in the Telegraph... Good thing this is a blog and so I do not have to write in a proper style!

My fiendish social experiment!

So I have been running a rather fiendish experiment with a good friend of mine (she is an expert in the Middle East) to see what attracts people to blog sites.

We set up a website combing what we judged to be a good niche market of punters (what might be called perverts in some areas, or experimentalists in others) and crafted an idea together to spellhold them.

Effectively we looked about and decided we both like apples, and seeing how I had just written an article on apple day in Mordon (visible here http://mertonmatters.co.uk ), the fruits seemed, well hot. 

We then added the other most important ingredient for 'user hits'. Sex.

So yes, the apple sex or whatever (forbidden fruit I think we called it) attracted around 33 clicks in the first 4 days of operation...

You dirty old fruits you!