Humphrey Archer

screwturn@mastodon.social

60+ three-time immigrant, whose life in Africa, Australia, and America, work with industrial and medical quality & safety, and obsession with mortality data and accidents, results in morbid short stories.I write fiction <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shortstories" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#shortstories</a> that are like “Final Destination” meets “The Monkey’s Paw” (W. W. Jacobs, 1902). A little bit Poe, a touch of Dahl, and a hint of Gorey. When I am not writing, I do bare-bow archery, walk a husky, and pick up other people's litter. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#writer</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#author</s

Posts

Post #4260270
Things you might consider drinking
Post #4260269
It is going to be so ironic if what saves us from facism is the fact that they are such bumbling imbeciles
Post #4260268
Just completed writing chapter 39 of a scifi novel
Post #4260267
Do you also get a bit of melacholic sadness when you finish #writing a story or book you enjoyed writing? #writingcommunity #writerslife
Post #4260266
I&#39;m looking for #Italian speaking #betareaders to see if I&#39;ve handled Southern Italian phrases and culture right Sorry, no money for this
Post #4260265
I&#39;m on a conference call, and some sneaky person is occasionally muting speakers mid flow, or just kicking people off the call. It is hilarious
Post #4260264
#WritersCoffeeClub 7/27 What&#39;s a writerly growing pain you&#39;re experiencing right now? Getting off Google and Microsoft for writing, ditching GoodReads, and struggking through the learning curve of Libre Office and Collabora. It&#39;s been a thing
Post #3663324
@alice@lgbtqia.space @h3mmy@lgbtqia.space do you have any really geeky friends who might like #betareading a few chapters of a science fiction novel I'm busy writing? Bonus would be someone with an astrophysics kink
Post #3538551
Hey @alice@lgbtqia.space @h3mmy@lgbtqia.space how should Adele refer to you? May is Auntie May Deirdre is Aunt Deirdre So you are...? Cousins? Aunts? Something we else?
Post #2016970
You know what vessel can sail right through the dualling blockades of Hormuz?
Post #2016968
#WritersCoffeeClub Day 1: What can we do to support and protect other writers, not only now, but in the future as well? Introduce and welcome them to writing groups Buy and review their work Sabotage corporates and AI Trolls who undermine literature Kick grammar trolls in the shins
Post #2016967
Dear #women Do you modulate your voice higher or lower when you are with men? Like, does your voice rise around men and get more &quot;girly&quot; or do you maybe go down and fry around men?
Post #2016966
Public transport K-PhD education Healthcare Should all be free at point of use
Post #1943682
I have known a few psychopaths. Some by virtue of work or research for books, and some by accident. A few things stand out to me 1. They are very unlike Hollywood or common depictions 2. There is something very fucked with the diagnostic criteria, and it&#39;s painfully obvious that if anything psychopathy is a syndrome comprsing a cluster of different things 3. Most of them are invisible 4. Some of them are extraordinarily violent and aggressive with scant regard for outcomes 5. Some are...
Post #1879064
This is made mostly of _____, and is used for _____
Post #1760169
If someone said &quot;pull in for shots&quot;, you would assume they meant that you should...
Post #1749464
I saw a guy react to a YouTube video by a young woman who does bodybuilding. Her video was basically "hey, this is me. If you don't like my physique, that's fine, but don't @ me" His reaction was essentially "ok, you are pretty, but not my type" It got me thinking about this old saw that one has "types" of people to whom one is attracted - hair color, body shape, etc. etc. and how shallow and foolish that is. Like of all the things about a person, thei...
Post #1735401
Hey, human Indie #writer here No, I am not going to ask you to buy my #books - even though that would be grand I&#39;m also not going to ask you to review my books - ditto What I AM begging you to do is glance at my stuff, and bump any friend who you think would like this kind of writing. If your friend likes short and tight stories about murder and misadventure: https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-machinery-of-fate If they prefer novels with endearing but murderous ladies: https://www...
Post #1318143
Just ordered four 200W solar panels for $105.79 each from HQST We are now at 53c/Watt and that&#39;s with America&#39;s stupid tarrifs and high costs
Post #1318142
#ScribesAndMakers 4/17. What&#39;s something you&#39;ve learned in recent research? My own? Just other research I found interesting? I mean, under my other profile I have two day jobs doing different kinds of research. In the one program, I am just amazed at how little states are doing to prepare for shocks. In the other, I am amazed at how patients are forced to build bridges between institutional silos In other people&#39;s research - I am just blown away by how poorly we handled...
Post #1318141
Periodic reminder to #comic #artists #narrators #poets #voiceactors etc. if you are struggling to find a plot, you are welcome to borrow one from my latest collection of #shortstories You don&#39;t have to pay me or even add a link to the book, although it would be nice if you mentioned me https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-machinery-of-fate
Post #1172072
*sigh* Ok, I thought I was done with &quot;Old guy gives life advice to young&#39;uns&quot; but apparently not, because &quot;sexual market value&quot; A ton of young men are getting all bent out of sorts over their &quot;SMV&quot; as calculated by a flotilla of grifters who offer &quot;detailed advice&quot; on how to increase it to have hot girls simply hurl themselves at one I am here to tell them three things 1. The new SMV thing is dumb 2. Attraction...
Post #975684
@heidilifeldman@mastodon.social Cowardly gluttons who are actually quite happy with this state of affairs
Post #963047
Just a reminder that most of the gee-whiz technology in Western military and commerce would rapidly vanish if a much smaller nation shot a wheeliebin full of ball bearings into low earth orbit.
Post #950507
As an almost 70 year old man, I have some advice for young men. Please boost this if you think it will help 1. Your voice doesn't need to be heard. In fact, realizing that you don’t HAVE to have an opinion on everything and voice opinions or ideas in meetings or social gatherings, is amazingly liberating. You can actually just shut up, and relieve yourself of all that effort and stress. Let Bob utter his embarrassingly dumb idea, let Shirley have a say. You can just let it be for the most...
Post #916951
Hey, do I know any #goth women here? I have a neeed to chat so I can represent #goths better in my writing Please boost for greater visibility
Post #564852
Q5: Many of us have stories about how we got into making, often evolving someone who mentored or supported us. How do you try and pay it forward and help people new to making? #MakersHour As a writer, this is really a big deal. The way to help new writers is to bring them into welcoming communities, and help undo (probably) decades of bad instruction and stupid &quot;advice&quot; they have received from schoolteachers, critics, bookbloggers, and all the myriad people with pithy but foo...