I doesn't take a genius to figure out that I wrote this sitting in KFC one afternoon. The whole training and doing staff reviews, interviews, appraisals, in front of the public gets right on my nerves, but also I find it fascinating eavesdropping on other peoples lives. Induction/ Indoctrination Sat in KFC on me Jack …
Author: Garry Coulthard
Batwoman-Pilot review
Dogs dinner, dinner dinner dinner... I happened to catch The CW’s new Batwoman pilot the other day. Now, Greg Berlanti has past form of doing good jobs with DC properties, so I didn’t think that this would be anything other than decent. I was wrong. I suppose every action has an equal and opposite reaction, …
Seeing Things- Or Not
She effortlessly pulled the knife across his throat. He bled without protest, eyes wide open, accepting the end while she sat next time him and held his hand. This wasn’t an act of brutality, it was one of love. His hand slackened on hers but she didn’t let go, it wasn’t quite time yet. He …
Handsy
Here's a bit of short fiction, a happy little tale about a man who decided to take drastic action when one of his hands decided to start betraying him. Handsy He sat at his workbench in his shed and put his phone down. He knew he had to do it and he had to do …
The Blob
Art by the wonderful Jemma Klein who you can find here https://www.instagram.com/jemmaklein/ So whilst doing my MA I wrote a portfolio of poems about classic movie monsters, but with that extra something as well. I'll going to share some of them with you, as it's approaching Halloween. This one is a written as a villanelle, …
Joker- An Unreview
As I sit to write this it’s been 24 hours, give or take, since I watched Joker and if I’m honest, I’m still trying to unpack it. I’m trying to decode various things about the film, including if I actually liked it. This is a film about which an awful lot will …
Hello!
“Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” ― Edgar Allan Poe This is the first post on my new blog. If you don't know me, I'm Garry, I live in the North-West of England with three dogs, two cats, some marine fish and a long suffering partner, and I write things. …