Rant: Resistance is not futile! I will not be assimilated!

Ok, so Port Jericho is primarily a book blog and my author home. I don’t normally rant here about things other than writing, and certainly not politics. I hate politics. I find it all petty, childish bickering to be honest. But this world, it’s going to hell in a handbasket, and it ain’t Crowley’s hell […]

Poem: Shatterheart

Shatterheart Aislynn d’Merricksson, ©2017   Listen dripping venom acid in the streets   Devolution the mad king laughs blood in the streets   Disillusion savagery exposed Stanford’s lesson forgotten   Fury Civilization falls Rome’s lesson forgotten   Hatred ‘Never forget’, already gone Reich’s lesson forgotten   Shatterheart crystal tears gaping wounds inflicted   Emberlight faint […]

Book Review: Confessions of Young Nero by Margaret George

George’s Confessions of Young Nero humanises an oft demonised ghost from distant ages past, he who ‘fiddled’ whilst Rome burned. We follow Nero’s musings about his childhood, and see how known and suspected events likely shaped the real Nero’s life. This is the first of a pair of books, unusual for George, who specialises in […]