Mark Taylor
@markiswrit.ing
Manchester-based fiction writer, bee enthusiast, father and nincompoop.
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Come discover what the impending deadline for my MA dissertation has done to my brain. Stories about painting, a fake well, and a drifting consciousness. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/01/passenger/
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Passenger
Come discover what the impending deadline for my MA dissertation has done to my brain. Stories about painting, a fake well, and a drifting consciousness.
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January 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM
Come discover what the impending deadline for my MA dissertation has done to my brain. Stories about painting, a fake well, and a drifting consciousness. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/01/passenger/
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Daydreaming about the big stack of books I'm going to take back to the library after I hand in my master's dissertation on Monday
January 10, 2026 at 3:23 PM
Daydreaming about the big stack of books I'm going to take back to the library after I hand in my master's dissertation on Monday
The cat has toned down his morning meowing, so instead I wake up worrying there's something wrong with the cat.
January 10, 2026 at 8:36 AM
The cat has toned down his morning meowing, so instead I wake up worrying there's something wrong with the cat.
Starting to understand the appeal of this Minecraft thing
January 7, 2026 at 6:56 PM
Starting to understand the appeal of this Minecraft thing
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If, like many people, your plans for 2026 include lying down in the woods until the mushrooms consume you, then here is a story for you. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/01/hyphae/
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
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It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
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Hyphae
Stories about turning into a mushroom, putting a horrible rich man to death, and inflating roadkill. Happy new year!
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January 4, 2026 at 9:53 AM
If, like many people, your plans for 2026 include lying down in the woods until the mushrooms consume you, then here is a story for you. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/01/hyphae/
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
#fiction
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
#fiction
Reposted by Mark Taylor
Watching someone's AI videos is like listening to them tell you about the dream they had last night.
January 5, 2026 at 9:41 AM
Watching someone's AI videos is like listening to them tell you about the dream they had last night.
If, like many people, your plans for 2026 include lying down in the woods until the mushrooms consume you, then here is a story for you. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/01/hyphae/
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
#fiction
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
#fiction
Hyphae
Stories about turning into a mushroom, putting a horrible rich man to death, and inflating roadkill. Happy new year!
www.scattering.ink
January 4, 2026 at 9:53 AM
If, like many people, your plans for 2026 include lying down in the woods until the mushrooms consume you, then here is a story for you. https://www.scattering.ink/2026/01/hyphae/
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
#fiction
It's the first issue of the month, which as always means it's free 🍄🍄🟫
#fiction
In case you've ever idly wondered about brass scoppets manufacturing https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2026/01/02/sc/
Scoppets
The first day back at the factory was like any other, stamping out thousands of blank brass scoppets. But now I was wondering where all the brass came from, and where all those scoppets went, and how they were cut and what they were used for. I had never used
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January 2, 2026 at 8:49 AM
In case you've ever idly wondered about brass scoppets manufacturing https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2026/01/02/sc/
Happy new year everybody. Here's a little story about a horrible rich man being condemnded to death. Look, they can't all be seasonal. https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2026/01/01/carstone/
Carstone
Carstone said that they could never try him, for he had not twelve peers in all of England. He was right, of course. They held him on remand while twenty-four boys (doubled up in case of accidents) could be raised up to his degree of privilege and sunk down to
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January 1, 2026 at 8:55 AM
Happy new year everybody. Here's a little story about a horrible rich man being condemnded to death. Look, they can't all be seasonal. https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2026/01/01/carstone/
Fitted a new radiator and it doesn't seem to be leaking from any of the joins. I find this highly suspicious.
December 31, 2025 at 5:59 PM
Fitted a new radiator and it doesn't seem to be leaking from any of the joins. I find this highly suspicious.
Dreamed I was put on trial by Wikipedia and they were seeking the death penalty.
December 31, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Dreamed I was put on trial by Wikipedia and they were seeking the death penalty.
December 30, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Online safety strategies will never be good because of the the pervasive attitudes that online stuff isn't real life and children aren't real people.
December 29, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Online safety strategies will never be good because of the the pervasive attitudes that online stuff isn't real life and children aren't real people.
Think I've pretty much nailed this Christmas spirit business, expecting a callup from John Lewis in the new year https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2025/12/25/a-perfect-christmas/
A perfect Christmas
You spent Christmas day in the woods outside my house, screaming at crows and chewing on the feral snowberries. Dizzy and sick by the afternoon, just like the rest of us, you lay down in the wet leaves and shivered yourself warm. We took you a turkey sandwich and a
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December 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Think I've pretty much nailed this Christmas spirit business, expecting a callup from John Lewis in the new year https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2025/12/25/a-perfect-christmas/
A nice window display, but this mouse is clearly shaking.
December 23, 2025 at 5:07 PM
A nice window display, but this mouse is clearly shaking.
So sweet to watch the little temperature sensor snoozing on its shelf.
December 22, 2025 at 9:00 AM
So sweet to watch the little temperature sensor snoozing on its shelf.
Happy solstice everybody https://www.scattering.ink/2025/12/the-last-solstice/
The Last Solstice
Happy solstice! Here's a song for the occasion, and a story too. If we are at vaguely comparable latitudes, congratulations on making it through the darkest bit. If we don't, or you are reading this at a later date, congratulations anyway: I'm quite sure you will have made it through
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December 21, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Happy solstice everybody https://www.scattering.ink/2025/12/the-last-solstice/
If you write a tiny story every day then sometimes they have to be quite stupid. Here's "Sir Gawain and the Athletic Greens Sponsorship" https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2025/12/20/sir-gawain-and-the-athletic-greens-sponsorship/
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Sir Gawain and the Athletic Greens Sponsorship
A year later, I made my way to the appointed place. The Green Knight was waiting in the dawn mist, axe in hand. I knelt, and bared my neck, and he struck my head clean off. He posted it that afternoon, Epic Beheading Prank GONE WRONG! Knight Gets Karma After
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December 20, 2025 at 7:44 AM
If you write a tiny story every day then sometimes they have to be quite stupid. Here's "Sir Gawain and the Athletic Greens Sponsorship" https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2025/12/20/sir-gawain-and-the-athletic-greens-sponsorship/
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Hang on, is everyone else getting more than one?
December 19, 2025 at 2:24 PM
Hang on, is everyone else getting more than one?
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Christmas shopping at the non-Euclidean Argos https://www.scattering.ink/2025/12/christmas-shopping-at-the-non-euclidean-argos/
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Christmas Shopping at the Non-Euclidean Argos
Sometimes, the stories we tell reveal something in us we weren't even aware of; other times, we walk two circuits of the Arndale Centre in Manchester looking for the Argos and we just want to gently vent about that experience. Fear not: I have since made my escape, elbowed my
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December 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Christmas shopping at the non-Euclidean Argos https://www.scattering.ink/2025/12/christmas-shopping-at-the-non-euclidean-argos/
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Christmas shopping at the non-Euclidean Argos https://www.scattering.ink/2025/12/christmas-shopping-at-the-non-euclidean-argos/
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Christmas Shopping at the Non-Euclidean Argos
Sometimes, the stories we tell reveal something in us we weren't even aware of; other times, we walk two circuits of the Arndale Centre in Manchester looking for the Argos and we just want to gently vent about that experience. Fear not: I have since made my escape, elbowed my
www.scattering.ink
December 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Christmas shopping at the non-Euclidean Argos https://www.scattering.ink/2025/12/christmas-shopping-at-the-non-euclidean-argos/
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Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts
December 11, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Planning a visit to the USA just so somebody has to read my posts
A tiny story about letting a storm carry you away https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2025/12/11/storm-tossed/
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Storm-tossed
I went out in the storm in all the old clothes I'd shrunk out of, and my big hat tied tight to my head, and I let it blow me away. Once the wind takes you, everything feels calm: the air and the wind and your little body are all
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December 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
A tiny story about letting a storm carry you away https://www.scattering.ink/daily/2025/12/11/storm-tossed/
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