Richard Wright

author of strange, dark fictions

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Spasms

Spasms

These are either a reasonably effective painkiller, or a remarkably potent sleeping drug. I’m not certain which. Every time I take..

April 22, 2013
Running Towards Things

Running Towards Things

I was going to post tonight about the Rishikesh half marathon, and how I’ve had to drop out of it because of the trapped nerve in my..

April 16, 2013
Briefing For An Ascent Into Hell

Briefing For An Ascent Into Hell

Edited to add: Apart from the fact that it is April and I am a fool, the timing of the post is coincidental. I know, even I thought I might..

April 1, 2013
Future Home?

Future Home?

Things are still at the sort of stage where there could be problems yet, but that’s never stopped me getting ahead of myself before...

March 28, 2013
Happy Holi

Happy Holi

It’s the festival of colours here in India, light triumphing over darkness, and everybody celebrating by… well… by..

March 27, 2013
Roof Of The World

Roof Of The World

Internationally speaking, Nepal is right on my doorstep. That I’ve only managed to get there for very brief dayjobbery in 2010 is a..

March 12, 2013
What Am I Reading (Next?)

What Am I Reading (Next?)

Some of my favourite books that I read in the last few years were out of left field. They came from outside my normal sphere of reading,..

February 11, 2013
Bikey!

Bikey!

It was my birthday on Friday. I’m not forty yet. That’s all you need to know about that. Here are some things that happened on..

January 13, 2013
Asian BirdManFlu & Other Stories

Asian BirdManFlu & Other Stories

This is what I actually look like today*, thanks to a horrific disease I appear to have picked up in Thailand. Before that, Thy Fearful..

January 8, 2013
Surviving Hogmanay

Surviving Hogmanay

I discovered the above statue in a night market in Phuket. It’s handmade, and the most awesome thing ever. Unfortunately, it’s..

December 31, 2012
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