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Alex Morrison
@alexmorrison81.bsky.social
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Writer & podcaster

Dice Company pod @dicecompany.bsky.social

Journalism book https://shorturl.at/UXpiE

Fiction https://alexmorrison.co.uk/fiction/

Science comms https://news.exeter.ac.uk/author/alex/

Newsletter https://alexmorrison.co.uk/newsletter/
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I love this - the opening of The Body (the Stephen King story that became the film Stand By Me)
A photo of a book page that says: "The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller but for want of an understanding ear."
October 29, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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Travelling to London today for the Independent Podcast Awards

@dicecompany.bsky.social is a finalist in two categories: comedy and gaming

Wish us luck!
The word finalist on a colourful background, with the smaller words “independent podcast awards 2025” at the bottom
October 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Found an abandoned church today, with plants and trees growing inside. Strangely beautiful
A church photographed from outside. The walls are covered in ivy and there’s a tree growing inside a roofless section of the building A glassless church window photographed from outside. Plants and trees are growing inside the building An empty church doorway photographed from outside. Plants and trees are growing inside the building
August 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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Dragged myself out of bed early. Totally worth it
An image of sunrise at the coast, with the sun low in the sky over the sea and fields and a lake in the foreground
August 15, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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When I see a path like this, my brain shouts “get off the road Mr Frodo”

Just me?
A stony track through trees and hedges, lit by dappled sunlight
May 3, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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I like podcasts and gardening (spotted tractors away across the fields while doing this at dusk yesterday)
An orange sky at sunset, seen over farming fields. Two bright lights far away show tractors in the fields
March 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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Trying a new thing: writing short stories based on our @dicecompany.bsky.social adventures

Here's the opening of Distress call from Boomertown (chapter one of the podcast version drops on Tuesday)
A screenshot of a Word document with the following text: Distress call from Boomertown In a cargo bay packed with frozen human bodies, a metallic hiss announced that something was happening. For seventeen months, no one had moved. No eyelid had flickered. No finger had twitched. No heart had beat. Not once. The expressions on the faces were frozen like photographs, displaying the emotions each person had felt when their cryo-pod was activated: fear, rage, resignation.
February 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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Some of my short stories are available free on my website

These include Stand To - in which a soldier on the eve of combat meets an old enemy

Read the story here 👉 alexmorrison.co.uk/stand-to/ and sign up for my newsletter for subscriber exclusives 👉 alexmorrison.co.uk/newsletter/
Soldiers in a trench during World War 1. On the right, one soldier lies against the side of the trench, rifle in hand
February 6, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Played mini golf today

Faced my greatest fear
A model fluorescent squid at a mini golf course
February 9, 2024 at 8:41 PM
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Democracy has failed 🗳️

He was a zombie king, dammit! 🧟‍♀️👑
A screenshot of a Twitter poll. It says: if you kill a zombie that’s wearing a crown, have you killed a zombie king/queen or a zombie in a hat. 69% voted for zombie in a hat
January 12, 2024 at 8:57 PM