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20/09/2017

Happy Publication Day to My Story About Homicide and Garden Shears

Happy publication day to my latest story! It’s the third in the Everyday Acts of Murder series, Gardening, and I’m quietly excited because it’s the first one I ever worked on back in, I think, 2015. I have a sneaky feeling I had the inspiration for it when I was watching a gardening programme, so thanks,… Continue reading

(All Hail) Creation, Internet

crowdfunding on Patreon, driving to work, Everyday Acts of Murder, flash fiction, Francesca’s Words, Indifferent Ignorance, living wage UK, short story, story about mermaids, story about witches
15/08/2017

Introducing: A New Stories Blog & Patreon Campaign

Friends, readers, randomers who came here through Google. Let’s talk jobs, writing and money. It’ll be more fun than it sounds. Last week I got a rejection from a company I really wanted to work for, not because it’s relevant to my career plans but because the job was regular hours, good shifts and relatively… Continue reading

(All Hail) Creation, Internet, Scriptures

crowdfunding on Patreon, flash fiction online, Francesca Burke on Patreon, Francesca’s Words, Indifferent Ignorance, short stories, short story blog, writers on Patreon
25/04/2017

Grasping at Straws (okay, leaflets)

Today I spent four hours in a virtual queue waiting for tickets for The Cursed Child, only to spend my allotted twenty minutes of browsing time searching fruitlessly for the right number of tickets on the right number of days in the correct type of seats. So ‘miffed’ doesn’t really cover it. Anyway, the good… Continue reading

(All Hail) Creation, Art, Complaints, DISCUSS., Internet, THE WORLD *head in hands*

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30/12/2016

Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2016

I’ve been coming up with the annual Indifferent Ignorance awards for long enough that I know to keep ’em cute and to the point. But there’s something about 2016 that’s been so thoroughly appalling that I couldn’t just list a few bits and pieces. So here is the best and absolute worst of 2016. Book of… Continue reading

Books, December 2016, DISCUSS., Government and Politics, Indifferent Ignorance, Internet, LGBT, Lists, Music, THE WORLD *head in hands*, Videos

‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’, ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’, ‘The Raven King’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ banned for racist language, Brexit, David Bowie, Donald Trump, Ed Balls Gangnam Style, Frank Iero ‘Parachutes’, Indifferent Ignorance, Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2016, Lily Allen ‘Fuck You’, Maggie Stiefvater, Today programme Radio 4, Troye Sivan ‘Blue Neighbourhood’

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Happy Publication Day to My Story About Homicide and Garden Shears

Introducing: A New Stories Blog & Patreon Campaign

Grasping at Straws (okay, leaflets)

Indifferent Ignorance Awards 2016