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I'm delighted that my story "Flora's Lexicon" is included in this new anthology from Egaeus Press:

"THE BOOK OF FLOWERING is now available to order.

"A remarkable collection of eighteen new and previously unpublished weird fictions, exploring, in their various ways, the concepts of fatal beauty and impermanence.

"Decadent, wondrous, sometimes disquieting, this 280 page, lithographically printed sewn hardback is limited to just 350 copies, featuring colour endpapers by Toru Kamei.

"It can be ordered now for £36.00, inclusive of postage worldwide. See www.egaeuspress.com/The_Book_of_Flowering.html for more details.

"Edited by Mark Beech, the full contents are as follows...

"Mark Valentine - The Pale Sentinels Of Asphodel Tiffani Angus - What Cannot Be Described Sheryl Humphrey - Flora’s Lexicon Timothy J. Jarvis - With Scourges, With Flowering Sprigs Ron Weighell - Fugues of The Blue Lilly John Gale - A Garden of Sorrow and Sorcery Reggie Oliver - Lady With A Rose D. P. Watt - But They Withered All Colin Insole - Gallybag Alison Littlewood - Down In The Dendrons Damian Murphy - Flower Dream Sermon Rebecca Kuder - The Only Flower That Mattered Mat Joiner - Belbyne’s Lane N. A. Jackson - A Phantom Flowering V. H. Leslie - Marginal Species Jonathan Wood - The Absence Charles Schneider - The Floral Seasons of Life Thomas Strømsholt - The Book of Flowering."

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Fake News

By Mark Beech

Turn sadness to gladness,

flip wrong into right.

Switch no into yes,

change black into white.

Turn bridges into walls,

flip poverty into wealth,

Switch straight to crooked,

change sickness into health.

Turn news into views,

flip enemies to allies.

Switch fact into fiction,

change truth into lies.

Note: Inspired by taking a photo of a tree at Regent's Park Theatre and then inverting its colours to negative. I may rework this. I quite like the idea of a fake news “optimistic” where pres releases switch negatives to positives and a “pessimistic” counterpart where we really see what is going on ie truth becomes lies.

#mark beech #poetry #fake news #donald trump

I'm so happy to receive my copies of "A Midwinter Entertainment," a new book from Egaeus Press. Edited by Mark Beech, this anthology from the publisher of "morbid and fantastical works" includes my new story "The Ruddy-Cheeked Boy (A Tale in Homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Snow-Image’)". Egaeus Press books are beautifully produced (as was seen in the gorgeous "Soliloquy for Pan," in which I had an essay). This is a limited edition, at a few hundred copies, but there might still be some available -- go to http://www.egaeuspress.com/A_Midwinter_Entertainment.html, where you can also see more photos of the contents and antique illustrations.

#winter #egaeus press #midwinter entertainment #ruddy-cheeked boy #Sheryl Humphrey #short story #anthology #new books #nathaniel hawthorne #folk horror #tale #mark beech

Inaugural Spring Haiku

By Mark Beech

Petrified by pap,

Frostbitten with a frozen lip,

Sun kisses the sap.

#Mark Beech #poetry #inauguration

I’m so happy to receive my copies of “A Midwinter Entertainment,” a new book from Egaeus Press. Edited by Mark Beech, this anthology from the publisher of “morbid and fantastical works” includes my new story “The Ruddy-Cheeked Boy (A Tale in Homage to Nathaniel Hawthorne’s ‘The Snow-Image’)”. Egaeus Press books are beautifully produced (as was seen in the gorgeous “Soliloquy for Pan,” in which I had an essay). This is a limited edition, at a few hundred copies, but there might still be some available – go to http://www.egaeuspress.com/A_Midwinter_Entertainment.html, where you can also see more photos of the contents and antique illustrations.