Stories, satire and writing from Christopher Harris. Home of the fictitional Sussex village of Denham, its characters, its football club and the books growing out of them.
Julie Stevens once had Lewes at her feet. Now, her greatest pleasure is causing chaos outside her daughter’s school, where every angry motorist feeds her insatiable appetite for attention. But when love unexpectedly enters her life, one final act of vanity sets in motion a tragedy nobody could have imagined.
Business is booming, which is wonderful, except it’s leaving precious little time to promote my book. Seven weeks into my publishing adventure, I’m juggling writing, blogging, Substack, Medium and social media. The statistics are modest, the workload enormous, but the foundations are taking shape. Most importantly, I’m enjoying myself.
An interesting lesson analysis in the limitations of artificial intelligence, courtesy of a frustrating few weeks spent trying to redesign a WordPress blog and set up a podcast using Chat GPT.
A Facebook Marketplace furniture sale turns into a nightmare when a charming buyer claims woodworm. Isaac discovers a scam far bigger than he imagined.
A Normandy holiday, three hours arguing with Chat Bloody GPT, podcasting disasters and small social media victories. Another week of learning, frustration and gradual progress.
by Chris Harris Autumn has arrived in Sussex, and I’ve been thinking about how growing an audience for Something About … More
When a friend told me the stories in my book were too long, my first instinct was to disagree. Then I thought about it. Six days later, I’d written two Very Short Stories — and accidentally discovered an entirely new direction for my writing.
A last-minute house clearance, a difficult daughter and a painting nobody had noticed. What Duncan Drew finds behind a toilet door turns an ordinary Friday morning into something nobody involved will forget.
An innocent rhubarb growing competition between a couple of best friends escalates into full scale growing combat and violence in … More
