Nerd Church - Who Cares If It’s ‘Cringe’?

Is that Comics Sans? Yes, yes it is. I am cringe but I am free 💅😎💖

Why can’t we just enjoy things? I mean… really?!

One thing that really annoys me is when people are overly-critical of stuff they consider ‘cringe.’

The 12 Year Blogging Anniversary Post!

Yes, it’s true. As of today, I’ve been blogging here at Dora Reads for 12 whole years!

I never quite know what to write in these anniversary posts, they usually turn into a slightly weird ramble (which is entirely on-brand for me, let’s be honest!)

Poetry: Sweet Decay

 

This poem was first published on Medium.

Warning: This poem talks about death, including child death, and graveyards.

Honestly, I have no idea what corner of my brain this came from. 😅

Sweet Decay

 

‘Just like a crow chasing the butterfly

dandelions lost in the summer sky’

— Shinedown, The Crow And The Butterfly

Tell Me Something Tuesday: What Animal Do You Think Best Represents Your Personality?

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a meme-thingy where people answer a different question each Tuesday

- it's currently run/hosted by Roberta @ Offbeat YA,  Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, and Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell.

13th October - What animal do you think best represents your personality?

Nerd Church - Short Story: The Vultures

This is a short story about a recurring character of mine called Anna Sinclair

This one is something of a prequel? I guess?

Honestly, I never intended for this to be a series, so I have no idea how we got to this point — ask Anna, she’s the one in charge.

 

You can see my other Anna Sinclair stories on Dora Reads here:

• New Money

• Living The Dream

• Gravel-Crunch

The Vultures was first published on Medium, here.

Warning: grief/mourning

The Vultures

by Cee Rhiannon

Image by Pete Linforth from Pixabay

Tell Me Something Tuesday: What’s One Thing That’s Always In Your Fridge?

 

Tell Me Something Tuesday is a meme-thingy where people answer a different question each Tuesday

- it's currently run/hosted by Roberta @ Offbeat YA,  Berls at Because Reading Is Better Than Real Life, Jen at That's What I'm Talking About, Karen at For What It's Worth, and Linda at Book Girl of Mur-y-Castell.

15th September - What’s one thing that’s always in your fridge?

Firstly, nothing to do with fridges, but — it’s my birthday today!!! Woo! :)

Nerd Church - I'm On A 'The Kinks' Vibe ATM

 

I’m on a bit of a Kinks vibe at the moment.

(…No, not that type of kink — keep it clean, dearest nerdlets. I mean the legendary rock/pop 60s band, The Kinks.)

I love The Kinks — their music is beautiful and complex in a way that few non-classical composers can claim.

A few months ago I saw Sunny Afternoon — a musical about the band’s early years — in Cardiff, and I’ve been on a Kinks-vibe ever since.

(My auto-generated Spotify mixes are now very confused by the way — my tastes are so all over the place that they don’t know if I’m 17 or 70. Neither is true — or maybe both, who knows? 

Either way Spotify keeps rec'ing such excellent combos as The Rolling Stones and Sabrina Carpenter, The Beatles and olivia rodrigo, The Monkees and TX2 *shrugs*)