December 2011
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My BBC Young Sports Personality of the Year Prank
Obviously, we all spent tonight huddled round the television in families watching the awards ceremony for the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year competition, excited for the result. Who would it be? Would Andrew Strauss’s gurn be deemed more characterful than Mo Farah’s significant medal? It is now known.
And of course they also run a competition parallel to the adult sports...
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Morte's story from Planescape: Torment
This is an amazing little fairy story that Morte (who is a talking skull) tells at one point in my favourite computer game of all time, Planescape: Torment.
‘An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path, right? He wasn’t certain of which direction to go, and he’d forgotten both where he was travelling to and who he was. He’d sat down for a moment to rest his weary...
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Boatswain Higgs
1655. The Golden Age of Piracy. Whilst sailing the Spanish Main, boatswain Lemuel Higgs, of the Hispaniola, is thrown overboard. His crewmates assume him dead, but later in Port Royal they hear rumours of his presence. He is said to have become shadowy, quieter. He does not eat, or drink, or sleep, and from him there appears to emanate a great *power* of some sort, not associable with mortal...
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Efficiency Savings
You are in an accident. The world goes black, now flickers back on.
Broken, your sensory milieu is a rush of white lines, sudden pains, tinnitus. You find yourself lying on a hospital bed, surrounded by concerned parties, tubes and wires hooked into you to keep you alive. Above you the enormous dome of the operating theatre. Over a PA system, you hear: “Doctor Beeching to the emergency room...