The King's Evil

The king has a personal fortune of 400 million pounds. This is not true of most pensioners.

He also demands 100 million pounds from the taxpayer each year. Pensioners don't get that either.

All this money could be put to a much better purpose in the health service for example.

Yet Labour continues to uphold the monarchy.

We could do with a party of the working class.

Take a Break fiction magazine

Take a Break fiction magazine has given its writers their marching orders and now uses AI. 

 Short stories appearing in the title credited to the in-house team are 100% AI generated. You are not obliged to buy this publication which has replaced writers with machines. 

 

George Orwell predicted this in 1984. #ai #takeabreak #bauer

 

 

Right to Live

As every MP knows Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with ALS in 1963 and was initially given just three years to live, but he survived for 55 years after that diagnosis, living until 2018. 

Will doctors stop making simplistic predictions in response to politicians legislating for the ‘right to die’ for people with ‘only six months to live’?

All Your Stories 2026

https://allyourstoriesandpoems.com/all-your-stories-anthology-magazine/

 

"All your Stories" have had the good taste to include two of my stories in this edition. I am very pleased!

 

Review of Clown Town

If the Secret Service should last for a thousand years, people will still say, this was Jackson Lamb's finest hour. Jackson Lamb is very entertaining on the page but nobody would want to have him as a boss in real life. 

The other stand-out character for me is Roddy Ho. The Rodster is not the doyen of self-awareness.

Amazon are quite peculiar. They have also asked me to review my own book which would look a little odd.

Everyday Fiction

https://everydayfiction.com/?s=derek+mcmillan

Everyday Fiction has not been online since June so I have here my previous contributions.

An interesting fact

This is a good quiz question because anyone who watches the BBC or indeed reads the Daily Mail would refuse to believe the facts.

General election	Labour leader	Labour votes	Vote share
2024		9,708,716	33.7%
2019		10,269,051	32.1%
2017		12,877,918	40.0%
2015		9,347,324	30.4%
2010		8,609,527	29.0%

Story in Drablr

100-word stories are called "drabbles" in America but don't let that put you off.

Here is an example.

https://drablr.com/story/32382-do-not-resuscitate-dnr