Sam Redlark

Employed by The Unified Wells & Aquifers Company

[Sam Redlark @Sam_Redlark]

Regrettably, my new book 'Boiled Branches, Green Wood - A Book of Trespassers' is not as good as 'Shadow Ticket' but it is interesting, and it covers a lot of ground, and it is available now through Amazon, in paperback or on the kindle.

https://t.co/QiFOfjMOAG

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@truhtnac Reminds me of that scene in Naked where Johnny is trying to unfasten the knots on Sophie's corset. She says something like "you've tried the stairs, now try the escalator" and unzips it.

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@XJosh @wylfcen I believe that a zero-tolerance towards lateness and littering - establishing that basic level of respect for others - would be a good first step towards rebuilding some kind of functioning society.

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@heyThomasTrang A tea drum. Been a while since I've seen one of these. The ear-shaped protrusion was used to store a rolled-up 'newspaper' (bulletin blanket).

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@JLMoultrie One thing I realised when I started looking after my parent's garden. Every plant has its time. That time may a few weeks or a few days.

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In Dankalia it was nudging 50C. The heat came from every direction. You couldn't think straight. I lived on Sports Biscuits and watered-down Fanta. I think about that when we have high temps in the UK and I walk around irritable, covered in a film of sweat. I've had it worse.

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@TheStalwart My counterargument is: if an LMM is going to do all this for me, then what am I supposed to do? Because writing is vocational for me. It is how I engage with the world and my thought processes. It is an artistic expression; an end in itself, as opposed to a means to an end.

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@MisanthropeGirl @LessGrumpy It wasn't deep fried.

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@EricSubpar Crotch provided for scale.

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@jk_rowling Fuck it, they're adorable. I'm feeding them.

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@asdkfjasdlfjd They came to our house one morning. A pair of young women who looked like they were on the waiting list for a junior editor position at Hachette. A young man with manicured eyebrows. They led my father outside and made him improvise a poem about Chloë Sevigny.

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@matthewbdexter @WhatHoARat It is mentioned, in passing, in Maggie Fergurson's biography of the great Orkney writer - George Mackay Brown - that the couple who introduced Kafka to Britain (Willa and Edwin Muir) were living in abject poverty. It's like those stories were cursed.

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@MrJonnieB @ceefaux I both want this and want to throw up.

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@CletusCrow I was there on Games Day 87, when the first edition came out. It marked a transition away from lead miniatures to plastic, and towards a more ambitious/ruthless Games Workshop.

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@charliekkendo I had a run of short stoires published under a different name, before I decided to focus on self-published novels and short story collections. Most of my current writing in on Substack. I am currently publishing stuff I wrote in 2013 on Blogger https://t.co/EyesgrGIG5

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@Johnmcternan First day of a gym membership, before it sinks in that you'll have to do a lot of exercises that you don't like to get the results that you want.

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@matthewbdexter There was an outdoor pool in Stigliano, Italy, where I used to swim. The swallows would divebomb the water. I could never work out whether they were drinking or snatching the small insects that were caught on the surface tension.

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@JLMoultrie I like the new iteration of this band better than the old one.

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@MisanthropeGirl The hole is too deep. Stairs and ramps are unwelcome manifestations of the far right. We dig for China!