Jon Hunter
@jontooting.bsky.social
Writer, reader, Brighton and Hove Albion supporter, cyclist, Londoner.
First 'no thank you' of the year! I'm off and running.
January 6, 2025 at 6:05 PM
First 'no thank you' of the year! I'm off and running.
⋆bookish checkpoint ୧⋆｡🕯️. -ʚɞ
✧ last read: Barbarians The End of Drum Time - Hanna Pylvainan
✧ current read: Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst
✧ last book added to tbr: The Son of Man - Jean Baptiste del Amo
✧ next read: The Queen Of Dirt Island - Donal Ryan
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✧ last read: Barbarians The End of Drum Time - Hanna Pylvainan
✧ current read: Our Evenings - Alan Hollinghurst
✧ last book added to tbr: The Son of Man - Jean Baptiste del Amo
✧ next read: The Queen Of Dirt Island - Donal Ryan
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October 21, 2024 at 8:39 PM
Bit late to this one, but loving this beautifully spun novel on the effects of the crash on the inhabitants of a small town in Ireland. Superb for a debut. Highly recommend.
July 23, 2024 at 4:06 PM
Bit late to this one, but loving this beautifully spun novel on the effects of the crash on the inhabitants of a small town in Ireland. Superb for a debut. Highly recommend.
ust finished The Coast Road by Alan Murrin, his debut novel. Highly recommend checking it out. Story of three marriages, set in the village of Ardglas, County Donegal.
May 17, 2024 at 1:15 PM
ust finished The Coast Road by Alan Murrin, his debut novel. Highly recommend checking it out. Story of three marriages, set in the village of Ardglas, County Donegal.
I hang memories from a length of string that spans my bedroom. At night I lay awake staring at them, some luminescent like Jamie's warm embrace, some soft like feet in warm sand with Paul. Others are resonant, chiming when caught by a draught, like lost love & unrequited love that hum a low E flat.
The 20 April word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): STRING.
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April 20, 2024 at 4:34 PM
I hang memories from a length of string that spans my bedroom. At night I lay awake staring at them, some luminescent like Jamie's warm embrace, some soft like feet in warm sand with Paul. Others are resonant, chiming when caught by a draught, like lost love & unrequited love that hum a low E flat.
London's Ultra Low Emission Zone works.
Ulez helped London cut road pollution faster than rest of UK, report says | Air pollution | The Guardian
Ulez helped London cut road pollution faster than rest of UK, report says | Air pollution | The Guardian
March 9, 2024 at 10:25 PM
London's Ultra Low Emission Zone works.
Ulez helped London cut road pollution faster than rest of UK, report says | Air pollution | The Guardian
Ulez helped London cut road pollution faster than rest of UK, report says | Air pollution | The Guardian
I wanted 'like tea lights in the mist', she insisted upon 'like fireflies in the fog'. I wanted emotion, she typed more sensory detail. 'It's my name on the cover' I said. 'They're my words on the page' she snorted. If only I had the time to put my own words down, I'm a ghost in this rotten process.
The 18 Feb word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): GHOST.
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February 18, 2024 at 9:52 PM
I wanted 'like tea lights in the mist', she insisted upon 'like fireflies in the fog'. I wanted emotion, she typed more sensory detail. 'It's my name on the cover' I said. 'They're my words on the page' she snorted. If only I had the time to put my own words down, I'm a ghost in this rotten process.
My favourite end to a film.
The Third Man. Joseph Cotton leans against a cart smoking and waiting, as Alida Valli walks slowly toward the camera, through the cemetery, and straight past him, without a word being said. Class.
The Third Man. Joseph Cotton leans against a cart smoking and waiting, as Alida Valli walks slowly toward the camera, through the cemetery, and straight past him, without a word being said. Class.
February 11, 2024 at 8:07 PM
My favourite end to a film.
The Third Man. Joseph Cotton leans against a cart smoking and waiting, as Alida Valli walks slowly toward the camera, through the cemetery, and straight past him, without a word being said. Class.
The Third Man. Joseph Cotton leans against a cart smoking and waiting, as Alida Valli walks slowly toward the camera, through the cemetery, and straight past him, without a word being said. Class.
Just listened to this podcast. Not only George Sanders take on the skill of Claire Keegan, but herself reading the utterly brilliant 'So Late in the Day'. Well worth a listen.
George Saunders Discusses Claire Keegan | The New Yorker
George Saunders Discusses Claire Keegan | The New Yorker
January 28, 2024 at 6:02 PM
Just listened to this podcast. Not only George Sanders take on the skill of Claire Keegan, but herself reading the utterly brilliant 'So Late in the Day'. Well worth a listen.
George Saunders Discusses Claire Keegan | The New Yorker
George Saunders Discusses Claire Keegan | The New Yorker
Just signed up to this....looking forward to some good reading.
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January 24, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Just signed up to this....looking forward to some good reading.
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The ups and downs of writing. Just had a good hour, getting 1,000 odd words down, feeling my way into a short story. Read it through, made a few tweaks, confident to go on tomorrow.
My phone pings....an email....'we enjoyed your submission but on this occasion.....' So it goes.
My phone pings....an email....'we enjoyed your submission but on this occasion.....' So it goes.
January 22, 2024 at 10:40 PM
The ups and downs of writing. Just had a good hour, getting 1,000 odd words down, feeling my way into a short story. Read it through, made a few tweaks, confident to go on tomorrow.
My phone pings....an email....'we enjoyed your submission but on this occasion.....' So it goes.
My phone pings....an email....'we enjoyed your submission but on this occasion.....' So it goes.
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HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23
December 20, 2023 at 2:28 PM
HOLIDAY GIVEAWAY! We're giving $100 to help boost your writing in 2024—workshop, comp/submission fees, membership, critiques, books, pens—anything you find helpful, anywhere. Like & share to enter. We'll also give $100 to one of the organisations we support—winner to choose. Ends midnight NYC Dec 23
I'm early tonight, I've a choice. On a bench by a stout oak, I lay double cardboard, Kellogg's Cornflakes, my St Mungo's blanket from last Christmas, then me wrapped in a Crisis thermal sleeping bag. Finally Marathon silver foil I found on the Mall & Sanyo tv cardboard. A hood keeps out the light.
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December 8, 2023 at 4:02 PM
I'm early tonight, I've a choice. On a bench by a stout oak, I lay double cardboard, Kellogg's Cornflakes, my St Mungo's blanket from last Christmas, then me wrapped in a Crisis thermal sleeping bag. Finally Marathon silver foil I found on the Mall & Sanyo tv cardboard. A hood keeps out the light.
Everyone starts somewhere - a kick of a ball, a stroke of paint, a sizzle of onion. Me? With cardboard, gaffer tape & a wooden pallet. Maria bound my hands, Joe checked the binding. Louisa taped up the box, using the entire roll. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... ... ..
Such was my entry into the world of telesales.
Such was my entry into the world of telesales.
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Credit: Rafel Bestard
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November 19, 2023 at 9:20 PM
Everyone starts somewhere - a kick of a ball, a stroke of paint, a sizzle of onion. Me? With cardboard, gaffer tape & a wooden pallet. Maria bound my hands, Joe checked the binding. Louisa taped up the box, using the entire roll. 5, 4, 3, 2, 1... ... ..
Such was my entry into the world of telesales.
Such was my entry into the world of telesales.
As the wheels lock up and squeal, Johnny drops his peach. Rotating colours of orange, yellow and blush, moments of juice spray from the bite mark, on a parabolic path to warm tarmac - the fruit explodes. With torn flesh and a splatter of sap, the stone is exposed.
The 18 Nov word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): FRUIT.
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November 18, 2023 at 8:58 PM
As the wheels lock up and squeal, Johnny drops his peach. Rotating colours of orange, yellow and blush, moments of juice spray from the bite mark, on a parabolic path to warm tarmac - the fruit explodes. With torn flesh and a splatter of sap, the stone is exposed.
The bearded one spoke, "Gentlemen, I believe we've reached a decision. Are you agreed?" One by one the three solemnly nodded. The youngest gathered papers together, the baldest lit a cigarette. Three days of deliberation, two bottles of whiskey, several arguments had led them to this. Thai food.
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Credit: Luca Giovagnoli
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November 13, 2023 at 8:43 PM
The bearded one spoke, "Gentlemen, I believe we've reached a decision. Are you agreed?" One by one the three solemnly nodded. The youngest gathered papers together, the baldest lit a cigarette. Three days of deliberation, two bottles of whiskey, several arguments had led them to this. Thai food.
"Did you tell him to come and pick us up?" Big Sam asks.
"I don't understand what's gone wrong." Joel remembers forgetting. Snow chews up his suede shoes, the north wind bites his ears. He's a boy again, outside school, waiting for a mother who'd forgotten her vow of abstinence.
Another walk home.
"I don't understand what's gone wrong." Joel remembers forgetting. Snow chews up his suede shoes, the north wind bites his ears. He's a boy again, outside school, waiting for a mother who'd forgotten her vow of abstinence.
Another walk home.
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Credit: Saul Leiter
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November 12, 2023 at 9:44 PM
"Did you tell him to come and pick us up?" Big Sam asks.
"I don't understand what's gone wrong." Joel remembers forgetting. Snow chews up his suede shoes, the north wind bites his ears. He's a boy again, outside school, waiting for a mother who'd forgotten her vow of abstinence.
Another walk home.
"I don't understand what's gone wrong." Joel remembers forgetting. Snow chews up his suede shoes, the north wind bites his ears. He's a boy again, outside school, waiting for a mother who'd forgotten her vow of abstinence.
Another walk home.
That new girl faffed with me hair like she'd lost her contact lens in it. If I'm not me usual conker I'll play merry 'ell. Ma tea's not turned up, & this vinyl chair, well - I'm stuck to it like Velcro. Chantelle, the stylist, she's outside dragging on a Capstan like it's life support. I ask you.
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Credit: Alex Hurst
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October 23, 2023 at 7:15 PM
That new girl faffed with me hair like she'd lost her contact lens in it. If I'm not me usual conker I'll play merry 'ell. Ma tea's not turned up, & this vinyl chair, well - I'm stuck to it like Velcro. Chantelle, the stylist, she's outside dragging on a Capstan like it's life support. I ask you.
I know this corridor well - stained green carpet, kid's work hung on the walls at jaunty angles, the stink of moulded sandwiches leaching from forgotten lockers. I'm labelled, I've barely sat at a desk before I'm thrown out. Sod them. Outside I scale the fence, light up and read.
The 12 Oct word prompt for #mpotd (micro prompt of the day): TROUBLE.
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October 12, 2023 at 7:38 PM
I know this corridor well - stained green carpet, kid's work hung on the walls at jaunty angles, the stink of moulded sandwiches leaching from forgotten lockers. I'm labelled, I've barely sat at a desk before I'm thrown out. Sod them. Outside I scale the fence, light up and read.
I've been gorging myself on Claire Keegan recently. How I've not read any of her work until now amazes me. Every sentence is a jewel - makes me feel somewhat unworthy but hugely inspired. 🥰
September 19, 2023 at 2:14 PM
I've been gorging myself on Claire Keegan recently. How I've not read any of her work until now amazes me. Every sentence is a jewel - makes me feel somewhat unworthy but hugely inspired. 🥰