Blog | Alex Mann

My Writing

As an aspiring writer - this is where I will share scraps, short stories, even my dissertation from my Creative Writing Masters at Birkbeck College, and maybe links to my professional work.

Send Out Your Pigeons by Alexander Mann

Been in pigeons some time, used to live for pigeons, used to know when a pigeon threw a flight and everything. These days, I hadn’t the...

A Sidewalk Dream by Alexander Mann

The sewage vent fog parted, there he was same time, same place. I’d walked by this man for the last year, every morning, always between...

VII. God bless, God speed and Goodnight

How does one sum up such a trip? Where do you even begin on a journey with so many emotions, thoughts, prayers, insights, people,...

VI. God's Plan.

5.6.18 The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. In my case, through the...

V. 'The greater the obstacle, the more glorious it is to cycle through it' AEM

(13th May) Down again in the 4th. This time it’s in Zambia. Things were floating serenely past me as I pushed on from the capital of...

IV. Never negotiate in fear or fear to negotiate. JFK

These last few days since my previous update have been extremely tough, another test, another beguilement of my reason as I trundle along...

III. Danny Hart, Marky Mark Cavendish or is it Mallory?

18.4.18 Allow me a minute, this one is meatier for those who want something to chew on, whether it be on the tube, the lavatory in the...

II. Let’s go Jordy, I am alive. The Bike Safari.

This is 4 days out of date, more to follow. A teaser of the next instalment - bruised, bloodied but not broken. Shuffle of the day...

I. Arrivederci…

Friends, countrymen, Romans lend me your eyes for one moment. This will be my first attempt putting pen to paper before I embark and then...

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