A Dickens of A Problem (#4 of the Pride Series)

Part Four of Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice (see the previous part): It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of misguidance and mis-intelligence.  In short,

A Question of Lost Anatomy (#3 of the Pride Series)

Part Three of My Christmas Series ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (See Part Two Here): So far, Frussterer has received the news more calmly than his advisors could possibly have hoped.  But that’s because he has not yet understood it.  Presently he becomes pensive. “Walk me through events once again,”

Lessons in Economics and Theft (#2 of the Pride Series)

Part Two of My Christmas Series ‘Pride, More Pride and Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice’ (See Part One Here): “Exact numbers are all calculated alike; every inexact number is miscalculated in its own way.”  Such is the motto of the Department of National Statistics. The problem, it seems, lies in numbers and Frussterer struggles with

Pride, More Pride And Quite a Lot of Extreme Prejudice #1

Part One of My Christmas Series (as promised and previewed in my previous post): “It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good army must be in want of a conquest…” Thus spake Zackary Frussterer. Zackary Frussterer has recently been elected the President of the United States, promising his electors

The Story for Christmas 2015

Just before I begin my winter’s hibernation (I’m planning a lock down in January to draft my next novel), I feel obliged to try to recreate the success of my ‘Twelve Days of Christmas’ blog-blitz of 2014. Last week, I was going through my folders of dead books and found something I began as a