Raymond G. Taylor
Bio
Author based in Kent, England. A writer of fictional short stories in a wide range of genres, he has been a non-fiction writer since the 1980s. Non-fiction subjects include art, history, technology, business, law, and the human condition.
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Stranger on the shore. Content Warning.
It started out as a barely-remembered, hazy and confused dream about standing in front of a canvass, painting a seascape at night. The painting was very much a vague outline and I completely forgot about the dream as soon as I got up in the morning and drank my first cup of strong black coffee. It wasn't until about two weeks later that I had a second dream.
By Raymond G. Taylor5 days ago in Fiction
If music be... study notes
Students of English literature, Scottish dialect or Gaelic language should recognise the quotes from Robert Burns and William Shakespeare in my wee poem If music be the feud. For anyone finding the language and allusions obscure, these notes should help.
By Raymond G. Taylor6 days ago in Poets
Behold the member. Content Warning.
So, Sir Anthony Blair thinks "a woman has a vagina and a man has a penis" does he (Daily Telegraph, 17 June 2024)? I make no comment about the implications of this remark to the current heated transgender debates and online noise, nor about the former UK Premier's views generally. I make no political comment about these issues as I tend not to discuss politics and religion online.
By Raymond G. Taylor7 days ago in Men
Tea set by a suffragette . Top Story - June 2024.
Pankhurst is a name well known to the history of women’s suffrage. Who hasn't heard the name Emmaline Pankhurst, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU), an all-women organisation campaigning for the right to vote? The group that helped to achieve the right to vote for women in Great Britain and Ireland in 1918. Some know of her daughter Christabel, both being honoured by the Pankhurst memorial in Victoria Palace Gardens, London, right next to the UK Parliament buildings. Sylvia Pankhurst is notably not included in the monument. Why? Because she split with the WSPU to campaign against Britain's entry into First World War.
By Raymond G. Taylor11 days ago in Art
Boy girl or not
This article is intended as a reflection, a collection of thoughts and some views based on experience. It is also a plea for care, consideration, understanding, 'tolerance' (if you can call it that), if not love. It is a plea to those (like me) with 'binary' understanding of their own sex and gender identity to accept rather than judge. You may already do so and I intend no suggestion that my thinking is in any way special. My thoughts, feelings and opinions are my own, and I make no claim that they are in any way different.
By Raymond G. Taylor20 days ago in Men
Dinosaurs were never scary. Content Warning.
You may have read one or two of my dino ditties, and thank you if you have. Each of these four poems focuses on a favorite dinosaur from my distant boyhood and provides what I hope is a lighter side to the dinosaur story.
By Raymond G. Taylor22 days ago in History
All about the noise
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By Raymond G. Taylor22 days ago in The Swamp
Unloved stories
Posting this in response to the wonderful Paul Stewart's fabulous Be Your Own Advocate challenge. I thought it would be easier to explain my choices in a separate story space, rather than to cram my blathering into a comment on Paul's story. Anyways, here is a link to the challenge:
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a month ago in Writers
Happy Hash
What did you have for breakfast today? This is my little starter meal for the morning. Hash champignons et épinards. The basic recipe is vegetarian, vegan, kosher and halal but if you are embellishing the dish (see options below), it would of course depend on the the extras you choose. I know some can't imagine breakfast without their bacon, for instance.
By Raymond G. Taylorabout a month ago in Feast
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