The Short History of Cpt Simon Halstead RIP Introduction by Field Marshall Steve CFB (Retired) Listen, I’m a newspaper photographer, I was working up a story on the 2nd world war about the coast watchers and managed to blag…
Monthly Archives: February 2012
The Island Of Doctor Morrow by Steve Merrick
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The Island Of Dr Morrow. By Kego O’grady Blasphemy, I was being charged with blasphemy. It was a crock of crack, I had woken up to the court summons and being a writer there wasn’t much in my diary anyway…
The Munich Lottery. By Steve Merrick
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The Munich Lottery. I have become accustomed to ignoring the dead, three days ago the world was spinning in the usual way, the poor were still poor and the rich were still rich. Yet in that short 72 hour…
Welcome To Tehran by Steve Merrick
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“OF GUTS AND DOLL’s” Indulge an old man and join me in a thought experiment as you leaf through these photo’s. It’s a an unrealised reality game, set in a parallel universe, the rules are quite simple really, transpose…
The Night They Raided Hamley’s by Steve Merrick
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Copyright Steve Merrick 2012 Worthless Word. By. K O”Grady The Night They Raided Hamley’s Chief Detective Flipper of Scotland Yards second story section stood in the middle of the chaotic crime scene, she was particularly disturbed to have been…
Photojournalism, The Myth.
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Copyright Steve Merrick 2012 MONDAY, 21-02-2011. I was shaking hands with a guy this afternoon. Complacency dripped off of him and as I had just spent twenty minutes shooting his portrait, I knew the type, a salesman, front of…
The Silent Fairy Tale, by Steve Merrick (extract from The Navigator By Steve Merrick.)
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Copyright Steve Merrick 2012 The Silent Fairy-tale. By Kego O’Grady Once upon a time there was a little deaf boy who lived in a beautiful rain forest. In his own little head he built his world. Alone and free…
The Polynesian Space Gazette (Advertorial for planet Corruptus.) by Steve Merrick
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Welcome ToPlanet Corruptus. You may think what you wish but the brochure in no way lies, the twin binary suns do filter through the vaporous and humid clouds beautifully, there is no chance of sunstroke for us Homo Sapiens.…
A TECHNOLOGICAL LEGALOGICAL ARTISTC DISPUTE. OR. TECH EX. BY STEVE MERRICK
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Copyright Steve Merrick 2012 Why is it that I am never in a good mood when I see my solicitor, huh, I know I don’t ever see him for fun but…
The Secret Agent Man By Steve Merrick
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Copyright Steve Merrick 2012 The Secret Agent Man. SCENE 1 (A DRUNKEN STEVE TALKING TO HIS REFLECTION IN THE MIRROR AT O’REILLY’S BAR IN KENTISH TOWN)(NOBODY ELSE HEARD THE REPLIES IN THIS CONVERSATION EITHER) “HEY YEAH, LISTEN UP YAH KINDRED…