Humourist/storyteller—not necessarily both at the same time, or either at any time. Writer-ghostwriter-consultant I've lent my pen to Steve Martin, National Lampoon, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and untold more. https://www.dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.ukhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3murqu2fgos2lWhen the afternoon’s connoitering turned out rather under-connoitered, we fetched our boots and connoitered it all again. But the fresh #reconnoitering was as poorly connoitered as the old connoitering had been, and frankly, we’d have been much better off having a nice biscuit instead. #vss36505 Sep 2026 15:04 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3murqu2fgos2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muqfpldg222xI spied those cool cats scatting down the alley, their lamp-lit #silhouettes tracing shadows across a decrepit timber fence, phantom feline fingers jazz-handing, or perhaps jazz-fingering, along a rotting wooden keyboard. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #prose #music05 Sep 2026 02:12 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqfpldg222xhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muo6mowu6k2d​À la #silhouette, sooty shade of fine lamp-black; c’est un bon profil! #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp04 Sep 2026 05:00 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muo6mowu6k2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mun2mexl2k23I'm not a huge #fan of Lady Windermere—as prideful Puritan. Self-righteous and judicious, she must learn to be humble. #tanka #tankaThursday #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry03 Sep 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mun2mexl2k23https://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mumrytibfk2yAlec Cyr, the poor dear, couldn't speak, couldn't hear; though trammeled in vocal career, he deftly shone as puppeteer. #vss365 #elixir #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #haikucommunity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #dpp03 Sep 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mumrytibfk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mulakaoe3s23It seems a century since I last choked out a #poem in Latin. It may not yet be time for a Catullan revival, macronised or otherwise. But I shall take the smallest, leanest #consolation from the effort and, in the spirit of Catullus, make no epic of it. #vss365 #prose #poetry #poetrycommunity [contains quote post or other embedded content]03 Sep 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulakaoe3s23https://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mujv6e3snk2yQuisque potest miserērī; vulnera corde dolēre vix aliēna potest quī mala nōn tulerit. #vss365 #Empathy #verse #latin #prose #poem #poetry #micropoetry #poet #BlueskyPoets #poetrycommunity [contains quote post or other embedded content]02 Sep 2026 12:00 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujv6e3snk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muix6ykdos24#Empathy, sympathy— pray, by what art do these high notions act upon the heart? Aristotle, Cicero— daily, needful meat; classic ballast laid before scholars feet. Never fence Catullus with a don who holds the Latin keys— who battens on the meek, bleeding all white with polished pedantries. #vss36502 Sep 2026 03:04 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muix6ykdos24https://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mught24u6c2mThe invitation was handed to me, but the seal—the very #wax one applies to secure such a missive, the tampering of which used to be a hanging matter, or at least an indictable one... #vss365 #dpp #prose #writing https://www.dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/a-seal-of-waxen-disapproval/01 Sep 2026 03:23 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mught24u6c2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mug2s55j3k2gOld tallow candles, sent to the #wax museum by the old chandler. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #haikucommunity #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry #dpp31 Aug 2026 23:30 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mug2s55j3k2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mufn3nyay22gI use poet's #wax to add polish to my work, and to my poems. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #verse #poetrycommunity31 Aug 2026 19:25 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufn3nyay22ghttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muf5wjac7c2cI am reasonably convinced the specimen known as the Toffee #Sponge featured in Wes Anderson’s Cousteau mise en abyme. If it did not, it was a Glaring Oversight—which was an entirely different species altogether, a soft #waxy thing, I am almost positively and practically nearly certain. #vss365 [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 14:54 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muf5wjac7c2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mudcucotkc2gHorsehair and hog bristles; the #broom squire sets a stiff price for his birch besoms. #vss365 #poem #micropoem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #vsspoem #dpp #prose #emoetry #poets #haikucommunity #haikufeels #DailyHaikuPrompt #haikuchallenge #haiku #senryu #verse #inkmine30 Aug 2026 21:16 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mudcucotkc2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mucq4vs77s2wScotch #broom in full bloom— sweeping the coastal heathlands in carpets of gold. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp30 Aug 2026 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mucq4vs77s2whttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muargx37d22uI arrived at the premiere wearing green kid #gloves and a white carnation. The peacock of prose, and most of his posse, were already seated—each with white gloves and GREEN carnations! Not wishing to become epigrammic fodder, I stashed my pistachio fingerwear inside a flowerpot. #vss365 #dpp29 Aug 2026 20:59 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muargx37d22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muaggluppc2u"That is an insulting remark, sir, one which I expect you to retract, lest I throw down my #gloves, which I would, were I wearing any today, but it has been unseasonably warm, and my hands tend to sweat, and all I have to throw down is this tassled brolly, which you already said was silly." #vss36529 Aug 2026 17:42 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muaggluppc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3muafnanifc2uNothing I own fits like a #glove; not even my gloves fit like gloves. Indeed the gloves, ill-fitting as they are, are a good fit for my coat, which in itself only fits when there is a poorly-fitted jacket worn beneath—and well-worn it is. I should seek out a suitable tailor. #vss365 #prose29 Aug 2026 17:28 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3muafnanifc2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mua2rm3qh22uTwo fingerless #gloves; as my rule of thumbs, that's all I am admittin'. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp29 Aug 2026 14:14 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mua2rm3qh22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mu6tbyxeek2uMedean #tissues, monstrously wronged revenger shedding tears of blood. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #euripides #booksky #tragedy29 Aug 2026 02:27 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6tbyxeek2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mu5pkz6ojk2uMoist toilette #tissue— baby wipe by name, yet your role is most mature. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Haiku #senryu #poem #poetry #poetrycommunity #writing #vsspoem #dpp #prose #emoetry #poets #haikucommunity28 Aug 2026 15:48 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5pkz6ojk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mu3ktmsir22pMarshmallow milkshake— when one wonders what it's like to drink a #pillow. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #verse #poetrycommunity27 Aug 2026 19:18 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3ktmsir22phttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mu34xvs5nk2cSleeping feather-light as darned duck down #pillow quills prick thru their silk case. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #inkmine #BlueskyPoets #dpp #verse #poetrycommunity27 Aug 2026 15:10 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu34xvs5nk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtxldzgovk2pwhen I entered my new room I was not surprised to see a Mediterranean #sponge on my bed the bespoke trunk? that surprised me and why couldn't they leave it on the bloody floor? #vss365 #dpp #prose #poetry #peom #writing26 Aug 2026 05:16 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxldzgovk2phttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtxduqm27s27The observant #writer soaks up experiences as a stout Army & Navy sponge squeezed into a bucket of expeditions funneled inside a pot of Stephen's writing ink dipped by a hand down to the tip of a nib pressed onto a crisp sheet of house stationery from a reputable stationery house of paper. #vss36526 Aug 2026 03:03 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxduqm27s27https://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtwj4pmxus2iThe treacle pudding, mopped from the polished sideboard with a #sponge toffee. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry25 Aug 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwj4pmxus2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtw3zfot7s2iOh, how the #sponge read— high-backed chair, quite self-absorbed, soaking up the words. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry25 Aug 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtw3zfot7s2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtur67hbqk2lThe pastoral wealds, past #cords of elm, oak, and yew, hewn by that axe you wield. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry25 Aug 2026 02:23 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtur67hbqk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtuqhrjmjc2lIn full accordance... Did you just say a #cord dance? I know what you heard. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry25 Aug 2026 02:10 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuqhrjmjc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtuenq6vmk2iWe only #pretend to make real the very truths of our make-believe. #vss365 #HaikuFeels #verse #DailyHaikuPrompt #Senryu #Haiku #HaikuSky #Poetry #MicroPoetry #writing #poem #prose #emoetry #poets #poetrycommunity #blueskypoetry24 Aug 2026 22:39 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtuenq6vmk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/dreadfullypoorpublishing.co.uk/post/3mtsdjnrdi22lInternationally speaking, the #hashtag was, pound for pound, the greatest leap in glyphology since the discovery of the ampersand. (ET) The hash mark has truly earned its place on the typewriter, I'll say. So much utility! And more sensible than a capital three. #prompt #poetry #prose #dpp #poem [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Aug 2026 03:13 +0000at://did:plc:ezffmswls5jsj6dgaein3ipr/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtsdjnrdi22l