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Dec 1, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·9 min read·--This week’s chapter is sponsored by the Writers of the Future Bundle by Galaxy Press…The Writers of the Future judges and winners have bundled 14 amazing novels and short stories into a limited-time eBook bundle.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
resilience.org | Mark Watson |Charlotte Du Cann
Cover of ‘The Plant Pamphlets’: sunflower seeds by Anne-Marie CulhaneFrom 1999-2024, Dark Mountain’s Mark Watson taught and demonstrated the art of holding a dialogue with (mostly) wild plants. Part-manual, part-memoir, this small book is a distillation of his hands-on practice, ‘hanging out’ with twelve flowers and a tree over a year: from a conversation with burdock in a community garden, to lying alongside sea kale on the Suffolk shore, to foraging for mallow leaf fritters and flower teas.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·8 min read·--©Copyright 2024 by Mark WatsonTHE STORY SO FAR…Moronic Billionaut Derek Mann, along with his snarky, silver AI sidekick Barry Wilkinson, have been rescued from an ugly, dangerous spaceship and have now landed on Mars. Back on Earth, things have gone predictably wrong — most of Northern Europe has been obliterated after Derek’s genius friend Noel decided to crank the Large Hadron Collider up to eleven.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·7 min read·--The rangers were advancing cautiously when a sudden gunshot rang out behind them, sharp and abrupt. Instinctively, they dropped low, pivoting to face the sound, weapons raised — but no bullet was heading their way. Instead, they saw a man crumple in the center of the road with a lifeless thud. Stepping calmly out from the forest, lowering his pistol, was Rahul.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
plymouthherald.co.uk | Mark Watson |Mark Jefferies |Shivon Watson
McFly star Danny Jones came close to missing his stint in the I'm a Celebrity.. Get Me Out of Here! jungle after losing his passport just before his scheduled flight. Caught up in the chaos of preparing for a house move, the pop star was convinced he had accidentally packed his passport in one of the many sealed boxes at home. The urgent search disrupted his household and even delayed his trip to the recording studio as his time to fly approached.
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Nov 16, 2024 | 
markwatsonbooks.medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·Follow2 min read·--The great exodus begins. If, like pretty much everyone else at the moment, you’ve had enough of Elon Musk’s Twitter, also known as X then you’ll be moving your account to Bluesky. Now, many of us had spent years building up our following before Musk and Trump took it over and turned it into a far-right echo chamber and we’d like to keep the same followers and friends. Is this possible? Yes, just about.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·9 min read·--©Copyright 2024 by Mark WatsonThe sun had risen, and the first day of the village festival was warming up. The early morning mist clinging to the forest floor had faded like a bad dream with the dawn. It didn’t take long to confirm that Rahul wasn’t among the casualties when the watchtower was destroyed. Yet, no one in the village knew his whereabouts or why he hadn’t spent the night there as planned.
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Oct 26, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·5 min read·--©Copyright 2024 by Mark WatsonTHE STORY SO FAR…Moronic Billionaut Derek Mann, along with his snarky, silver AI sidekick Barry Wilkinson, have been rescued from an ugly, dangerous spaceship and have now landed on Mars. Back on Earth, things have gone predictably wrong — most of Northern Europe has been obliterated after Derek’s genius friend Noel decided to crank the Large Hadron Collider up to eleven.
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Oct 25, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·7 min read·--The night was thick with humidity, a suffocating mist rolling down from the mountains and pressing in like a damp, heavy blanket. The jungle surrounding the village loomed, a shifting mass of shadows alive with noise. Insects buzzed incessantly, while the occasional rustle of leaves hinted at unseen creatures lurking just beyond the tree line. It was the kind of night where the jungle felt more alive than the people in it.
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Oct 21, 2024 | 
medium.com | Mark Watson
Mark Watson·FollowPublished inThe Travelling Circus·9 min read·--Bheema and Jagan had gone to bed at the same time as the other bandits, but they lay awake, counting the hours until it was time to make their move. Bheema still rested in the boss’s hammock, though it felt more like a betrayal than what they were about to do. Jagan lay on a bedroll on the stone floor beside him.
