“Every goddamned thing about this Test grated. And let’s be honest here: ‘grated’ is just the wrong word to use. Maybe ‘vexed’ is better? I always liked the sound of ‘vexed.’ It was comfortingly old-school, like something that someone in a Jane Austen adaptation would utter, in a steely British accent, after he mopped his…
“…flick through pages defining an alien realm in which justice was king and superheroes fought the good fight to uphold dignity and equality. There was laidback humour in them, too, a sunny-side-up sense of cheeky bravado – since the world wasn’t the dystopia that existed just outside the door to his box.” I woke up…
“Hope can only be offered and snatched away so many times before it becomes a mockery.” Science Fiction, as a broad genre, has always had a harder edge to its style than its cousin Fantasy. Back in the 80s and 90s it started its love affair with the Hardboiled subgenre, creating Cyberpunk as we know…
Acerbic Writing 