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Henry by Lizzie
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I'm Henry and I write stories, many of which you can read here. Among the writers I most respect are James Joyce and Virginia Woolf and Marcel Proust. I like tea, videogames and clouds. My favourite novel is Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird.

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Latest Post:

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon

August 3rd, 2010

Fragile Dreams: Farewell Ruins of the Moon is a recent, fairly obscure, unusual and very Japanese Wii game, developed by Tri-crescendo, who most famously made Eternal Sonata for Xbox 360 a few years ago, but first caught my attention with their Gamecube card-RPG Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean. Eternal Sonata, despite the interesting premise of being set entirely inside the death-bed dreams of the 19th-Century composer Frederic Chopin, was too JRPG cliché for me, so I gave it a miss. Baten Kaitos had some beautiful pre-rendered scenery, a compelling story and characters and an unusual battle-system involving the real-time chaining of randomly presented cards to multiply attack-damage. It remains the only JRPG I’ve actually enjoyed playing, even after slogging my way through Final Fantasy VII and Chrono Trigger.

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Just nothing happening

April 20th, 2009

“I’m going to the toilet,” Rich said.

“Okay,” said Steph.

Rich stood and crossed the bar. As he pushed open the door to the toilet he looked back at Steph. She was sitting on a stool at a table by the window, with her fist pressed into her cheek, watching people walk by. She was pretty, in a way, but Rich had thought about breaking up with her today. He still was thinking about it. He entered the toilet.
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