The Sewer Rat's Apprentice

Tainting the sweet smell of innocence with a golden drop of older speculative oil.

Never throw your snippets away, no matter what form they might take.

The short story below was born from something I read and filed away as ‘interesting’ almost six years ago, with the article itself close to a decade old. Writers can struggle with the time compression forced on us all by the media torrents, and it takes determined negation to cancel the…