Sometimes the thing scratching at the door isn't the cat.

The monster lived in a cave on the mountain-top.

The modern knight-at-arms

Human self-perception, modern feminism and the anti-gun lobby Note: rape and what constitutes consent

What makes a book good

The path of true love never did run smooth

Rob Okun has written an article called 'Father's Day and a Woman's Right to Choose' in the Bainbridge Review. This is my response.

The title says it all, really.

Does what it says on the tin. Warning: rape.

Something a bit different from what I normally do. It's a response to the article "Banishing the Green-Eyed Monster", written by Professor Richard Dawkins and published on The Rational Response Squad.

The curse of the Strong Female Character, and some female characters that I actually do think are strong. Note: Spoilers for the Beau Geste series, the Harry Potter series, the Jungle Book, the Odyssey, the Three Hostages and Ella's Big Chance.

The order in which I'd murder the characters in And Then There Were None WARNING: spoilers NB: This is based on the novel by Agatha Christie. There are various adaptations for film, radio etc which I've never seen or heard and which I believe make various changes. I'm going to ignore them.

And it's not Twilight. WARNING: spoilers. ANOTHER WARNING: This is an essay about a book about a rape. Therefore, I mention rape. Hence the rating.

Starts as described in the title. Kind of generalises into a discussion about heroes. WARNING: Spoils Firefly, Raffles, Arsene Lupin, Frankenstein, The Tempest, The Dolls' House, The Talented Mr Ripley, Hamlet, Mockingjay, The Prisoner of Zenda, The Henchmen of Zenda, Soldiers of Misfortune, Beau Geste, Beau Ideal

A court clerk's day in the lime-light. In memory of the great Chief Justice Sir John Vaughan, the finest man to practise law.

A new machine

I feel the title is quite an accurate summary. WARNING: spoilers.

The conveyer belt whirrs day and night,

Matthew Ainsworth was quite satisfied to take on the Ludlow case.

Sky-blue dress and big brown eyes

A car in the sun-set

I feel I should explain why I think it's still an important and relevant idea in a free and secular society

Pretty self-explanatory title

On a perfect spring evening...

A river bank in summer

Space Western. Sunverse

The Children's Crusade in the Middle Ages. Word of warning, it's probably the bleakest thing I've ever written, teenage pregnancy and plenty of unpleasant deaths.

A discontented rock star

A widow talking to a relative.

Vaguely inspired by something I heard on Doctor Who

Thoughts on our time

The only thing I've ever written the plot for which literally came to me in a dream.

Woods in winter

Just a thing I wrote about a man in a house. (I did steal the title from a Guns song, but it has no relevance whatsoever.)

Russian Revolution

I wrote this as a teenager for a school project. Spanish isn't my native language. I've also uploaded the English translation of the poem.

The legend of Lorelei

A castle in a forest

Good morning. Is that the right way to begin?

I have no idea what this means. I was just humming and the words came into my head.

Does what it says on the tin

Duelling! Btw, on this side of the pond, "sheriff" means like in Robin Hood, not like in Support Your Local Sheriff.

The little wooden boat, storm-tossed and tired, drifted across the still, blue sea to the island.

A Cuban emigree in the US. Spanish is not my native language, I wrote this as a teenager for a school project.

The hero of the Swiss

Bushrangers in the 1860s.

Just a one-shot in an inn. Better formatting this time Sunverse, stand-alone

He was just minding his own business... (I wasn't sure which genre tab to put this under. I put "action" because I think it's the best fit.)

Isobel goes to space. Sunverse but stand-alone. This is the end of my disastrous experiment of the Play Microsoft document format, so the lay-out might not be great, which I apologise for.

A nineteenth-century exploratory expedition to Antarctica goes horribly wrong

Pirate story! I wrote it when I was a teenager, so bits of it might be a bit melodramatic, but I think it has potential. Feel I should point out, it gets a bit bleak, there are miscarriages and suicides.

The storming of the Bastile

Based on the song

I met a murderer once