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Link to my story “All the Difference” in the Adelaide Literary Magazine No 47

ALL THE DIFFERENCE by Chris Barker

Short story: Summer of Love

Here is he link to my short story ‘Summer of love” published on ‘East of the Web’ http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories/UBooks/SummLove1217.shtml

Politics and Writing (Fiction)

I have long been engaged in writing-fiction and non-fiction- and I have always been attentive to politics. I have written non-fiction work about politics, and I have written fiction that had an underlying political resonance. Politics and writing are inescapably intertwined. First, let me explain what I mean by politics. Politics refers of course toContinue reading “Politics and Writing (Fiction)”

One Woman’s Journey Out of QAnon

I thought this article was an interesting adjunct to my piece about the role of uncertainty in relation to the rise of Trumpism https://www.sbs.com.au/news/donald-trump-just-used-us-and-our-fear-one-woman-s-journey-out-of-qanon

The Wire, revisited

I’ve been re-watching the TV series The Wire which originally screened between 2002 and 2008. When I saw it the first time I thought it was one of the best pieces of TV drama ever made, and as I view it for a second time I still hold that opinion. The series has stood theContinue reading “The Wire, revisited”

I still write

“I still write. What else can I do? It is my habit and it is also my profession. For a long while I treated my pen as my sword: now I realise how helpless we are. It does not matter. I am still writing, I shall write books; they are needed; they have use allContinue reading “I still write”

A Pessimists Defence of Liberal Democracy

As I watched Trumps storm troopers invade Capitol Hill and the heartland of the US political system, I was reminded that Liberal Democracy (representative systems with checks and balances as in the U.K; USA; France etc. as opposed to authoritarian regimes as in Russia and China) is a precious and fragile thing that needs toContinue reading “A Pessimists Defence of Liberal Democracy”

Flash Fiction: Evil is Ordinary

On television she had seen this killer in America who had locked up his daughter in a dungeon deep below their house. The Evil Dude’s dark secret remained hidden year upon dark year, because he lived on an isolated farm in Nebraska, or Kansas, or some mythical place that made her think of cowboys andContinue reading “Flash Fiction: Evil is Ordinary”

Without beginning or end

I was sitting on my deck the other day and I experienced a strong feeling that I was part of an endless unfolding universe (for want of a better term, my sense was not of an enclosed universe but of an open and endless ‘space’) with no beginning and no end, in which everything isContinue reading “Without beginning or end”