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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 1d

October is the spooky month, the season of wisps and frightful gruesomeness. To celebrate the occasion I wrote seven supernatural limericks and they have just been published by Borderless Journal and here they are 🙂💀👻👻💀😶
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Some Supernatural Limericks by Rhys Hughes

From Public Domain There was a young ghost from the moonwho said, “Too late is too soon!”On a spectral mandolinbecause he can’t singhe strums a phantasmic tune.The skeleton sat down to dinnerforget…

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 1d

Delighted that my story 'The Empty Vessel' has been published today in the latest issue of Nightmare Abbey. I think it's one of my best ghost stories. It's also a crime fiction mystery 🙂💀💀👻👻🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 2d

Some stills from last night's performance of my play 'As a Man Grows Colder' at Volcano Theatre @volcanotheatre.bsky.social The actors were superb and absolutely made the play come alive. I loved the physicality of it 🙂 #theatre

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 4d

The first two of my plays to be performed will be premiered tomorrow at Volcano Theatre. I have been writing plays for the past seven years. None have been performed until now. Seeing my name in huge letters outside the theatre today was a very nice surprise 🙂
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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 5d

Hard to believe it has been exactly eleven years since I went to Ireland for the launch of THE YOUNG DICTATOR, and I still haven't written the sequel to that novel... But I will one day. I even know what its title will be: AGAINST THE GRAN 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 5d

I am free to start on my first full-length play. I've had the idea for this in my mind for years. The play is a duel between Logic and various kinds of illogical monster. I must take care it doesn't turn into a lecture on philosophy but remains an eventful comedy. Anyway, the process has begun :-)

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 7d

I am surprised that no grammar nazi has yet insisted that DOCTOR WHO ought to be called DOCTOR WHOM.

Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Two of my plays are going to be performed in Volcano Theatre @volcanotheatre.bsky.social in Swansea on Saturday.

All my plays so far are one-act absurdist comedies. But I will soon attempt to write a full-length play :-) #theatre

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Two Short Plays by Rhys Hughes -

A world première of two short plays (As a Man Grows Colder and The Modesty Men) by Welsh writer Rhys Hughes, directed by Volcano and performed by two talented actors from Wales. Rhys Hughes is ...

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 8d

There are a few people out there who have decided they don't like me, and my existence seems to annoy them for some reason. They tend to try to sabotage anything connected with me. This has been going on for decades but has lessened in recent years.

Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Library sales are the cheapest places to buy books. I picked this volume up for 20p last week. It's a compendium of Karel Čapek's work, featuring plays, short stories, essays, etc. Čapek is great. WAR WITH THE NEWTS might be the best science fiction novel published in the 1930s. #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Pleased to receive issue #11 of Occult Detective Magazine. Many thanks to editors Dave Brzeski and John Linwood Grant. The issue includes the second of my 'Nathan Gesture' stories, which was written for a pre-existing illustration, so it can be regarded as an ekphrastic piece 🙂 #booksky

Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 8d

Finished writing my new novel, THE INSIDE OUT STORY.

I think it manages to do what I wanted, which is to dredge for subconscious archetypes and images that resonate on a deep mental level.

I will clean it up and then begin the hard task of looking for a publisher willing to read it :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 10d

A free ebook for another two days... This novella was my thousandth story but in fact it consists of 100 flash fictions, so I don't know if it really is a novella... Download or ignore, as you prefer :-) #booksky

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Tangents: 100 Fictions

Amazon.com: Tangents: 100 Fictions eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 11d

Here we go again. Another free ebook. This novella was my thousandth story, but in fact it consists of 100 flash fictions, so I don't know if it really is a novella... Download or ignore, as you prefer. Thank you :-) #booksky #flashfiction #free
www.amazon.com/dp/B0FT65CP54

Tangents: 100 Fictions

Amazon.com: Tangents: 100 Fictions eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 14d

Thanks to an arrangement with Raphus Press, my book TANGENTS will soon be a cheap paperback and ebook under the Gibbon Moon imprint, as well as the limited edition recently brought out by Raphus itself. The novella was my thousandth story. It is the final piece in my grand story cycle :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 15d

One of my more obscure story collections, THE SEASHELL CONTRACT, is a free ebook from any Amazon platform just for today :-) #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 15d

Halfway through this collection and one of the short stories ('The North') is so delightful in style and ambience that I think it might be one of the best short stories I have ever read... 🙂 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 16d

A Brontë-saurus in its natural environment, having come up for Eyre but finding other things instead... #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 19d

The ebook edition of my most recent book, THAT OTHER EGYPT, is free for another two days from any Amazon platform 😀 #booksky

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That Other Egypt

Amazon.com: That Other Egypt eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 20d

It's my birthday!
Birthdays are times when presents are given. Thus I have made the ebook edition of my most recent book free for the next three days. That's the present.
THAT OTHER EGYPT is a collection of linked fantasy short stories themed around Egypt #booksky

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That Other Egypt

Amazon.com: That Other Egypt eBook : Hughes, Rhys: Kindle Store

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 22d

I would dearly like to go fifteen rounds in a boxing ring with Nigel Farage. I am 58 years old, not as fit as I was, not as strong. Nonetheless, I would hugely appreciate the chance to go fifteen rounds with that squirming gammon fascist just to give him a practical notion of what I think of him.

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · 29d

Began reading this last night. Three authors alloted one third of the book each. Alasdair Gray is one of my favourite writers. I know almost nothing about Agnes Owens and James Kelman, but the Kelman selection so far has been excellent, reminding me somewhat of Beckett ☺️ #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · Sep 13

One of the poems from my poetry volume, ODD SOCKS. Take the opportunity to read the other 397 poems in the collection by buying the ebook from Amazon. Or don't, if you prefer not to 😊 #poetry #verse #poems

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · Sep 13

Exactly eight years ago I finished writing my book WORLD MUSES and it was accepted for publication within twenty-four hours. The book consists of eighty short tales, some of which have experimental OuLiPo structures 😊 #booksky

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Rhys Hughes @rhysaurus.bsky.social · Sep 9

I have always voted Labour. I won't vote Labour next time -- unless they admit that they have been complicit in genocide, and take appropriate moral action to attempt to undo at least some of the immense damage they have done by supporting a rogue state that murders children.

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