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Mark Hodgetts

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Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute

May 26, 2023 Mark
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The dark fantasy story that scared me the most

Apr 13, 2023 Mark
Fiction Fragments of my life

Writing in the wilderness – choosing between proven paths and possibilities.

Mar 9, 2023 Mark
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Does Artificial Intelligence Signal the Death of the artist, writer and musician?

Feb 16, 2023 Mark
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Drawing From My Infinite Dark Well

Dec 30, 2022 Mark
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Excerpt from “Statue” from Dark Byways of Possibility
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Dark Weird Stuff Excerpt From Tin Can Man
Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute
Fragments of my life
Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute
The dark fantasy story that scared me the most
Fiction Fragments of my life
The dark fantasy story that scared me the most
Summit Avenue Belmont Memories of a Simple Time
Fragments of my life
Summit Avenue Belmont Memories of a Simple Time
Incandescent Rage
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Incandescent Rage
Why Cloudbusting by Kate Bush Made Me Cry
Fragments of my life Music
Why Cloudbusting by Kate Bush Made Me Cry
Success tasted dirty stale  and repugnant
Fragments of my life
Success tasted dirty stale and repugnant
Excerpt from “Statue” from Dark Byways of Possibility
Fiction
Excerpt from “Statue” from Dark Byways of Possibility
Dark Weird Stuff Excerpt From Tin Can Man
Fiction
Dark Weird Stuff Excerpt From Tin Can Man
The dark fantasy story that scared me the most
Fiction Fragments of my life
The dark fantasy story that scared me the most
The songs that inspired my dark speculative fiction juices
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The songs that inspired my dark speculative fiction juices
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Is ABC Australia the Deep State’s Bitch?

Feb 2, 2019 Mark

It’s Your ABC Isn’t It? For most of my life, I have regarded the ABC as an Australian national treasure.  I bought the 19c a day campaign.  I bought the…

media Politics

Pathetic, Conflicted and Corrupted: Welcome to Fake News

Jan 25, 2019 Mark

Regular readers will know that I have a deep abiding mistrust of “mainstream” media, it’s sources and the narratives it runs. It wasn’t always that way.  For much of my…

Music

Top 10 Songs By The Sweet

Jan 24, 2019 Mark

The Sweet were the first band that I really ever followed and I kind of accidentally got there. My brother was a big fan of Fox on the Run and…

Politics

Who Profits From Human Trafficking?

Jan 11, 2019 Mark

Human trafficking is big business. According to Faithreel.org human trafficking is at least a 32 billion dollar business with over a quarter of that business being generated in the United…

media Politics

What Purpose Does Alex Jones Serve?

Jan 4, 2019 Mark

Who Is Alex Jones? I like Alex Jones – he makes me laugh is kind of like saying I buy Playboy for the articles. But Alex Jones does make me…

Politics

Could Jared Beck Be America’s Voice of Conscience?

Dec 31, 2018 Mark

Jared Beck and his wife, Elizabeth are two of the very few precious voices of reason in the quagmire that masquerades as debate within American political discourse. Unfortunately most people…

media Politics

Disturbing Questions About the Independence of Mainstream Media

Dec 27, 2018 Mark

Aside from confirming the web of lies spun by the establishment, a series of apparently unconnected events, largely under reported by mainstream media raise some very disturbing questions. The events…

Politics

The Way The Political Left Was Lost

Dec 17, 2018 Mark

When I was much younger, politics seemed a relative simple argument.  It was working class poltical left versus the establishment  political right. I know it was never that simple, but…

Politics

Australia’s future is wearing a yellow vest.

Dec 10, 2018 Mark

As the French yellow vest movement gains strength, the Australian economy will become chained to the Trans Pacific Partnership on the 30th December 2018.   Australians will initially not notice.  They…

Politics

Unredacting the FISA Warrants

Dec 6, 2018 Mark

Much to the consternation of the political establishment and curiously enough, MI6, Donald Trump has threatened more than once to unredact the FISA warrants that were used by the FBI…

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  • The songs that inspired my dark speculative fiction juices
Fragments of my life

Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute

May 26, 2023 Mark
  • Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute
    Fragments of my life
    Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute
  • The dark fantasy story that scared me the most
    Fiction Fragments of my life
    The dark fantasy story that scared me the most
  • Writing in the wilderness – choosing between proven paths and possibilities.
    Fiction Fragments of my life
    Writing in the wilderness – choosing between proven paths and possibilities.
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    Does Artificial Intelligence Signal the Death of the artist, writer and musician?
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    Drawing From My Infinite Dark Well

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Excerpt from “Statue” from Dark Byways of Possibility

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Words Will Never Do You Justice – a Brother’s Tribute

May 26, 2023 Mark
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The dark fantasy story that scared me the most

Apr 13, 2023 Mark
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Essential Reading
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  • The Swamp Creatures Who Tried To Eat WikiLeaks The chain of events that led to Assange seeking refuge 0
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My Publications
  • Dark Weird Stuff Collection of short stories in the H/SF/Dark Fantasy Genres 1
  • Postcards From Hell Self published book looking at my journey through darkness into light 0

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