Downpour

The rain poured down mercilessly, as if the sky was unloading a heavy burden. Fat angry drops of rain bulleting their way on to the parched earth. There has been no electricity for about a month now, no news or contact to the outside world. We had no clue of what was going on out […]

On The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood and a Feminist Future – Spoilers

The Handmaid’s Tale explored how the little world of women works. While men work in broad strokes, women work in small, detailed brush strokes like a Master working on an oil painting. Men are more exhibitionist in their cruelty whilst women are more prone to grand schemes usually taking place in the shadows. Watching in […]

The Astronaut

This is based off of a dream that I had, for some reason it really stuck in my head. The coal lands were a brutal landscape. Mining, mining, to no end. The drilling and clunking of metal against the hard wall of coal echoing far and wide. It is the only sound I have […]

To err…

“To err is human” We live in a world that’s fast moving into the future. Science fiction isn’t fiction anymore, wherever we look it’s economical and infrastructural advancements, but the human condition really hasn’t changed. Those basic instincts that make us the emotional animals we are has not advanced in anyway. That remains primitive…some kind […]