Fiction

Why are corporate Christmas cards so awful?

A sardonic, affectionate look at Blighty and why no one ever clicks “more…”

Dec 22, 2025 • John Rux-Burton

Terra Nonnullius – A Short Story

5-minute read; 10 to work out who owns what; 5,000 years of human history to suggest you won’t be getting an answer any time soon. John Rux-Burton

Nov 18, 2025 • John Rux-Burton

Simulism: a new way of looking - A Guide For Young People

A new way of looking. What it is. What it means for art. The roots of the idea

Oct 28, 2025 • John Rux-Burton

The darkly comic novels of The Ghosts of Swelford Slaughter

Cotswolds: greed, ghosts, grockles, a jackdaw god. Will he save the universe? Again?

Oct 27, 2025 • John Rux-Burton

An ouroboros of chaos and design: a manifesto for the celebration of paradox

How questioning, not answers, define humanity

Oct 23, 2025 • John Rux-Burton

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