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paulmshaw
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I read, I write... and I occasionally finish what I start.
Love fiction that involves different worlds, maybe a little sci-fi, definitely with a sprinkling of dystopian.

https://darkearthstories.wordpress.com/
Russia: Our objective is to undermine NATO, fracture Europe, drive a wedge between the U.S. and its allies, and keep the world nicely unstable.

Trump: Hold my coffee.
January 6, 2026 at 7:21 PM
"If someone at the U.N. intentionally stopped the escalator as the President and First Lady were stepping on, they need to be fired and investigated immediately."

This waffle highlights a serious issue with the people in the US administration.
September 24, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Few things are as powerful as a book—able to preserve a message across millennia. Bound pages, quiet and still. Until opened. Then they smoulder. With emotion, with suspense. With wonder, and rage and truth. A book is a portal, a seed. Once read, it changes you. Sometimes subtly. Sometimes forever.
September 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I wrote this story for my daughter. She refused to read it (said she prefers to watch KPop Demon Hunters). So, I made it into a full middle grade fantasy novel and put it on Amazon as an ebook. The girl on the book cover is modelled on my daughter. I'm sure she'll love it

medium.com/@paulmshaw42...
Alice Foxglove is Lost — an excerpt from my new fantasy story.
Background: I created this story for my daughter, to help develop her English reading skills after she’d rejected every book and comic I…
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September 4, 2025 at 1:39 PM
"Does Bluesky really offer a blue sky, or just another cloud with better branding?" ☁️💭 #Bluesky #SocialMediaThoughts #FirstPost
April 17, 2025 at 6:59 PM