Watch a short video – also from this author. A short film written for the Tropicana Film Festival of 1998.
and other stories by Jonathan Griffiths
Watch a short video – also from this author. A short film written for the Tropicana Film Festival of 1998.
Eden will be launched at 5.00pm to 6.00pm on Saturday 16th June in the old Council Chamber at Williamstown Town Hall, as part of the Willy Lit Fest. … [Read More...]
Dr Douglas Winchcombe was a dreamer. He was last seen on planet Earth on the 29th of August 2018. Some considered him a genius – one of the finest scientific minds in Australia, if not the world, though he’d published remarkably few papers. Others considered him a clueless nerd, totally devoid of social skills, a caricature of the absent-minded professor. Most people didn’t consider him at all. But on Eden, despite his reluctance, he was practically God. … [Read More...]
I fear that I'll grow old one day Lose contact with my youth I'll have to be responsible And even tell the truth My kids will think I'm senile And women think I'm spent My memory shot to buggery My body worn and bent My sense of purpose wilted My libido like a slug I'll be plugged into machinery Too weak to pull the plug … [Read More...]
Set in the immediate future, and told from multiple points of view, Eden is an escapist fantasy, a commentary on planet Earth’s woes and a crime thriller. Doug Winchcombe, a brilliant but chronically introverted, physicist discovers a gateway to another planet. A perfect world he names Eden. He returns to Eden daily, amazed by its wonders and content in its tranquillity. But a perfect world needs more than one inhabitant. He recruits his nephew, Matthew, and together they encourage others to … [Read More...]
My father was born in 1924, when electronics were in their infancy and electricity wasn’t widely available – certainly not in Bootle, a working class suburb of Liverpool. As a child, the only electricity in his house came from a hand-wound dynamo, which he attached to a treadle sewing machine to increase the output. He laid a bare wire along the top of his fence and when he saw a cat jump up he’d peddle like crazy and the cat would leap off yowling. He started an electrical apprentice just … [Read More...]
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