Tuesday 28 June 2011

100 Themes 004 - Dark

“Bah,” Joe moaned, “there’s only dark chocolate in the cupboard. I hate dark chocolate.” I tried to hold my serious face as I watched this six-year old screw his face up and stick his tongue out. His freckles stood out on his pale face, rapidly blending in as the blood rushed to his cheeks.
“Joe, you’re going to have to put up with it. That’s life; we can’t always have what we want, and sometimes we have to make do with second best.”
“Did you do that with Daddy?”
Just like that, the whole conversation changed. Children have a habit of doing things like that, I guess.
“What makes you say that, little one?”
His head went down, flaming hair staring me in the face, sullen. “Dunno.”
I picked him up under the arms and swung him over to the sofa. We plonked down, him all over me and I tickled him mercilessly. He always was ticklish, and a breathless minute later he was sat holding my arms away from him, still giggling. I moved him onto a more comfortable part of my legs.
“Your Daddy and I love each other very much, Joe. You know that, right?”
“Yup!”
“Really, yeah? We just… sometimes adults don’t agree on everything, like you don’t with your friends, and-“
“He makes you cry when you argue.” He was so matter-of-fact about it, but things are so clear-cut when you’re a child, aren’t they?
“It’s important that you know we love each other, Joe. And you love us both, right?”
“I love you, Mum,” and he hugged me so tightly that I couldn’t speak, not even past the lump that had suddenly formed in my throat.

Sunday 19 June 2011

New Webcomic Site Goes Live

My wife and I are very pleased to announce that our new webcomic site, <a href="http://www.beansandbustickets.com">Beans and Bus Tickets</a>  is up and running. After we lost our original domain, Two Sides Wide, we were offline for a long time, but now we've gathered all of our published material in one place. All of Two Sides Wide, all the Guest Comics, all of Tiny Sides Wide, our manga short comics and, coming soon, a new webcomic exclusive to the site! 

Saturday 11 June 2011

100 Themes 003 - Light

I take perverse pleasure in twisting the themes' meaning.


Not much writing this week, I've got full-time work and it's knackering. Tremendously rewarding though!




Thursday 2 June 2011

100 Themes 002 - Love

Another piece to warm up with.  I enjoyed playing Portal, and Portal 2; there's a comic called Lab Rat which is well worth reading through. Not very long, and can be found here http://www.thinkwithportals.com/comic/


Wednesday 1 June 2011

100 themes 001 - Introduction

I've decided to make use of a writing thing to help me warm up into my writing. It's one of the 100 Themes Challenges from deviantArt, and I'll be posting them here. It's not edited or anything, barely even checked through. Just something to warm up with.


001 - Introduction



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