tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010Fri, 13 Mar 2026 14:33:25 +0000ComicsZarjazBolt-01Judge DreddVideosBryan CoyleBabbleWriting2000ADAccent UKLOLsLifeDunk NimmoFutureQuakeInternetsJudge AndersonDogbreathABC WarriorsPaul WilliamsWhen I Say JIMPScott TwellsStrontium DogClear & Present DangerWesternReviewsVelicity JonesVoice Of AuthorityJim LaveryRogue TrooperSomething WickedStar WarsInsomnia PublicationsPaul MooreValia KapadaiChris AskhamInfestedRIPSeason FinaleThe Hunting GamesRobotsAt The PollsBloggingCom.XDeath To The FutureLEGOPoliticsBabble ProjectPredatorsStewart K. 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When rogue British agent Darius Shaw is assassinated during a routine prisoner exchange, it seems like an open and shut case for Velicty Jones after she catches up with his killers. But following the revelation that Shaw is, somehow, still alive, and has apparently survived multiple deaths across the globe, the world's greatest secret agent is faced http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2026/03/velicity-jones-returns-in-immortal-man.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-815618498011419016Tue, 10 Mar 2026 13:17:00 +00002026-03-10T13:17:31.065+00:00At the end of last week, I dipped a toe back into social media to post a promo image for the new Velicity Jones story (coming next week!), and, after the usual disappointment of not getting any response at all, I found myself casually browsing BlueSky, Mastodon and Instagram. I was kind of struck by how much it's all changed, or, maybe it was how much I've changed, I'm not sure. It felt likehttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2026/03/a-toe.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-6185214429192499055Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:14:00 +00002026-03-06T13:27:48.568+00:00Velicity Joneshttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2026/03/soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-3270793748649051654Mon, 29 Dec 2025 10:39:00 +00002025-12-29T10:39:00.117+00:00I think it's fair to say that 2025 was...not a good year for me personally.It was, very much, the year I ran out of road, for want of a better term, and faced up to a lot of harsh truths, about myself and the world around me. I've had to walk away from numerous projects that never even got off the ground, dealt with a lot of personal shit and had to re-think a lot of aspects of my life, all of http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2025/12/2025.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-6333252366310675993Mon, 08 Dec 2025 16:47:00 +00002025-12-28T14:33:22.901+00:00ProseWhere The Strangers Come FromMy novella, Where The Strangers Come From, is now available in the Smashwords 2025 End of Year Sale - and it's 50% off until January 1st with the code SEY50! Where The Strangers Come From is an all but forgotten relic of the last century: an obscure text adventure game from the 1980’s, only ever sold by its creator in the classified pages of computer magazines from the UK. But in the http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2025/12/sale.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-7611794452733852871Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:17:00 +00002025-12-28T14:32:50.906+00:00A little while ago, I stumbled across a link to The Bee, an online magazine for working class writers, backed up by New Writing North. Reading through some of the articles, it helped me get a grip on something that's been tickling the back of my mind for a long time, about how the work of working class creatives is treat differently from those of other class backgrounds. When I saw the open http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2025/11/bee.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-213191971313411339Tue, 04 Nov 2025 09:46:00 +00002025-11-07T12:26:28.197+00:00Decided to fix a few things behind the scenes here, and attempted to re-connect the site to the dormant social accounts, but it's harder than it used to be. Guess we'll find out if I've got it right or not...EDIT: I did not get it right.  Fixed it.http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2025/11/fixed.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-7811869849649893765Fri, 31 Oct 2025 11:26:00 +00002025-10-31T11:26:42.891+00:00* blows dust off ye olde blog *Since I'm not getting rid of this thing, I really need to get back to it and start updating it regularly, if only so people know I'm still knocking about.Earlier in the year, I decided to take a break from social media (and, it appears, that I'm not alone), which  turned into an extended hiatus with no end in sight. At the risk of sounding like I'm spouting http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2025/10/alive.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-184407037941701582Wed, 08 Jan 2025 12:26:00 +00002025-01-08T12:26:04.210+00:00Velicity JonesSo. Our first Velicity Jones daily strip, The Blind God Affair, is wrapped, and we hope you enjoyed it. By way of a special bonus - as well as something to feed all you proces junkies out there - we're going to lift the curtain on the story and take you behind the scenes... The original, unlettered art for  episode 1 What no one really knows is that Velicity Jones was originally conceived ashttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2025/01/the-blind-god-affair-behind-scenes.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-4260170246091526282Thu, 19 Dec 2024 10:32:00 +00002024-12-19T10:32:00.230+00:00ComicsVelicity JonesWhat's this?! A surprise entry in the Velicity Jones canon?! And it's completely free?! Very much inspired by the work we did on the Zarjaz Dailies for the old 2000AD fanzine with Dave "Bolt-01" Evans, we're kicking off a brand new, 11 part Velicity Jones daily strip, that will run right up to the launch of the brand new Velicity Jones adventure over in Aces Weekly!The entire strip will be http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2024/12/velicity-jones-in-blind-god-affair.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-9048918700131336696Mon, 16 Dec 2024 10:29:00 +00002026-03-10T13:28:08.127+00:00ComicsVelicity JonesThe greatest comic series you're not reading is back! When Soviet general Danil Kalkin defects to the West, he brings with him the prototype of the fabled Hand Of Glory, a device, the Russians claim, that can remotely access any computer network in the world, allowing whoever possesses it to shape global politics to their whim! Dispatched to retrieve the device before the US Government can get http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2024/02/velicity-jones-returns-in-hand-of-glory.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-2404319652257567737Fri, 06 Sep 2024 12:55:00 +00002024-09-06T13:55:44.594+01:00Doing some behind the scenes maintenance here, and realising pretty much everything that connected this little blog o' mine to the "social web" no longer works - not that it matters, of course. It's not like I've actually posted anything on here since...January...? Really...?Oh, man... Guess I can throw that on the pile of "things that are broken around here," too.But, it also raises an http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2024/09/broken.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-4935027184951585612Tue, 02 Jan 2024 10:35:00 +00002024-01-02T10:35:00.126+00:00Ugh. Another of those posts where I look to the year ahead and confess to hoping things work out differently than they did last year, even though they clearly won't, and make all sorts of vague promises to myself that I'll try and make things work out for me, even though I know all I can do is roll the dice and see what happens.Yay! 2024! Art by Bryan Coylehttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2024/01/2024.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-3682793222100701880Mon, 09 Oct 2023 09:34:00 +00002023-10-09T10:34:00.143+01:00ACES WeeklyComicsThe Emerald KingComing soon to Aces Weekly is Bride Of The Emerald King, the second installment in the Emerald King saga, by me, Alex Paterson and Nikki Powers... Hired to find socialite Marie Coulthart by her estranged sister, Emily, Los Angeles private eye Joe Parker soon finds himself thrust into the middle of an increasingly bizarre mystery when he learns Emily died three years ago... This one's been http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/10/bride-of-emerald-king.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-2435428554052096416Fri, 29 Sep 2023 14:03:00 +00002023-09-30T13:43:33.136+01:00The Emerald Kinghttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/09/soon.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-2963359451069000417Tue, 22 Aug 2023 09:47:00 +00002023-08-22T12:54:05.618+01:00Social MediaSpent a couple of days last week spring cleaning social media accounts, and it's kind of left me pining for the days when those platforms were actually useful for something other than performative outrage.I properly quit The Social Media Platform Formally Known As Twitter, too; I deleted my archive, removed the header and even changed the profile pic, and, honestly, I do not miss it. I'd already http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/08/socials.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-2571452625970874497Wed, 05 Apr 2023 11:23:00 +00002023-04-05T12:23:00.197+01:00ACES WeeklyComicsVelicity JonesYou can't keep a good super spy down, it seems... Following the latest in a series of disappearances from the Point Nemo facility, world leaders come together to demand answers as to how anyone could escape "the inescapable prison." When Velicity Jones is assigned to investigate, the world's greatest secret agent finds herself in a deadly race against time to prevent a mass breakout that will http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/04/velicity-jones-returns-in-point-nemo.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-8860703539765532081Tue, 21 Mar 2023 11:26:00 +00002023-03-21T11:26:17.936+00:00Bolt-01Following the passing of Dave "Bolt-01" Evans, Alan Holloway and Ed Doyle of Sentinel Comic fame, have put together a special tribute to man himself, featuring an incredible line up of talent from across the UK comics scene - and they're bringing it to Kickstarter! The cover the the Bolt-01 tribute book by David Broughton. The book is a UK style annual, featuring a plethora of comic creators http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/03/bolt-01-tribute-now-on-kickstarter.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-3714969510588666511Mon, 20 Mar 2023 10:48:00 +00002023-03-21T11:26:28.890+00:00Velicity Joneshttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/03/official.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-2903603006609226481Mon, 02 Jan 2023 09:07:00 +00002023-01-02T09:07:00.195+00:00Around this time last year, I posted something about what I wanted to happen in 2022 and what would happen were two very different things. As much as it kills me to admit it, it looks like my predictions were right: literally nothing I wanted to happen last year actually happened.I'd like to be smug about being proved right, but it's actually pretty sobering to look back at that post (and the http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2023/01/2023.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-2159167002057640708Mon, 12 Dec 2022 09:15:00 +00002022-12-20T14:49:52.560+00:00Station IdentHaven't done one of these in a long while, but, given the upheaval going on across the soash meeds landscape, it's probably time to wheel it out again. So...This is Imaginary Stories, the blog of a writer you've never heard of, and who's work you'll never read. Hi! Art by Bryan Coyle Since I've more or less left Twitter (although, my account is still open, to push these blog posts - until http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2022/12/station-ident-december-2022.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-3476803954559687592Wed, 23 Nov 2022 11:14:00 +00002022-11-23T11:14:47.499+00:00Instagram View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lee Robson (@lee_robson) http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2022/11/hello-old-friend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-770071996465779746Tue, 15 Nov 2022 10:48:00 +00002022-11-21T12:51:46.450+00:00LifeSocial MediaIt was only supposed to be a short break from social media. A couple of weeks, at most.Three months on, and I still haven't logged back in.It's looking increasingly like I won't be doing it any time in the near future, either.I should point out that it's got nothing to do with Twitter's new owner - in fact, I'm actually having FOMO because I want to watch the shitshow that it's becoming unfold inhttp://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2022/11/socials.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-5163766395491984522Mon, 11 Jul 2022 08:01:00 +00002022-07-11T09:01:00.196+01:00Well, I guess this was my "Lockdown Project."I don't really know why I did this (I mean, other than something to keep me occupied), but I wrote a novella during the initial lockdown, called Where The Strangers Come From. For various boring and tedious reasons, I had to sit on it and let it languish in the archives for a while, but I've finally decided to just...put it out into the world and let http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2022/07/where-strangers-come-from.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9006010.post-8399485693207816051Fri, 10 Jun 2022 19:40:00 +00002022-06-10T20:40:39.827+01:00We're six months into the year now, and I'm feeling the need for a change, both the big and small kind.It's been a funny week, this one, and it's got me thinking about all kinds of things. It's been one of those where I keep coming back to a lot of the regrets I have about... Well, lots of things. I can't go back and change any of them, I know, so all I can do is wallow and feel sorry for myself.http://www.imaginarystories.co.uk/2022/06/the-year-of-letting-go.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Unknown)