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Of Course I Let It Slide
Look, let's be honest - life gets in the way. To paraphrase a fantastic fictional doctor from a movie that shaped a generation. I had great intentions of doing these posts on a much more regular basis and before you know it I am falling at the hurdle and an entire month goes by without a post. Or rather two whole months! Let's be honest on that front. The reality is work got busy, life got busy, and something had to give. That something was, of course, this blog. Which in the
Derek Power
Mar 191 min read
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First Short Story Live
I'm not entirely set on the new layout and things may change, but for now I've got something working that I can work with. I will say, while having your website hosted by a company that does websites for a living - it can be very restrictive using their idea of 'what people want'. I had intended to get a simple dynamic page going that would let me just rinse-and-repeat the story layout, but for some reason, even though I had removed it complete, the provider's code kept putti
Derek Power
Jan 31 min read
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New Year Short Stories
So I've mulled this one over for a few months now. As some folk may be aware, over on the podcast of Filthy Henry we would regularly put up short stories, or what we called 'Case Files', in between the seasons. This was so that we could keep putting out a little content here and there and also allowed me to write stories that would never make a full novel but worked nicely in a shorter format. Plus we always have to get out a Christmas Case File - it is basically tradition no
Derek Power
Dec 30, 20252 min read
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Let's Try Something Different
Right, here we go again. Well nobody new to the site is going to know this about me, so a little history I suppose. Many moons ago, when the Internet was young and Filthy Henry a dream in the eye of my mind, I used to write a blog on a now defunct website. I would post regularly with the stream of conciousness that I felt sure was worth spewing online. After a while the blog became a place for me to discuss a new hobby I had started: Stand-up Comedy. I would post about upcomi
Derek Power
Dec 20, 20252 min read
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