The Mandela Effect is a name for a tendency of large numbers of people to misremember an event, often based on a misleading online meme or a comedy reference that over-reaches its original context in the public consciousness. The name … Continue reading The Mandela Effect Effect
Greetings, citizens of planet earth. You may or may not have noticed that The Universal Omnibus has been inactive for some time. This was because it came to my attention that there was unusual bulk viewing activity from certain parts … Continue reading Normal Service Has Now Been Resumed
Remember this in the days to come, When uncertainly is the whole of your life, Did I do right? Did I do wrong? Did I make the world in which I live? This world when a knock upon the door, … Continue reading Remember This
I don’t often talk about my Social Anxiety, In fact, it’s not even something I put a name to until fairly recently. I certainly don’t know to what extent my friends are aware of it; they may read this and … Continue reading Get Off Of My Cloud: Social Anxiety and Social Media
This is a poem that started life as a song in the style of Sparks, but never got completed because… well, I’m just not musical enough. I always thought your blonde hair was actual,But now you take off your clothes, … Continue reading You’re Not a Blonde!
I originally wrote this story many years ago for the original version of the Strange Skins fanzine, but it was never published. Then it almost became a talking book with the voice of the Ninth Doctor provided by the wonderfully … Continue reading ‘A Town Like Malus’ by Paul Ferry
In the darkness, Night-time’s cloaked disguise, I can recognise you by the whites of your eyes, Just the whites of your eyes, And your porcelain smile, And the chains at your hip, Set me silver awhile. Chain baby, midnight child,As … Continue reading Chain Baby
Rapunzel sat in the window of her tall tower and sighed. She had an excellent view across the lush green forests of the kingdom and the sight of the low autumn sun sinking down over the tops of the trees … Continue reading ‘Wolf Momma’ by Paul Ferry
Revised version of a feature originally published in Strange Skins Digital #3 and taken from a chapter of the book The Space Between: Sci-Fi Cinema 1968-1977, which one day I will finish and actually publish. After the success of 2001: … Continue reading Barbarella: 52 Years of Doing Her Thing
This is a Doctor Who story that I wrote in early 2016, less than a year before the series explored similar superheroic themes in ‘The Return of Doctor Mysterio’. Hope you enjoy it and take it in the humorous manner … Continue reading ‘With Great Power…’ by Paul Ferry
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