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Martin Marriott
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Writer. Poet. Perpetual Draftsman.

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Snippets: The Delightful Rosemary Bellamy-Brown
Nestled in an idyllic corner of the Cotswolds is Morton Wells, a quintessential English village so picture-postcard, so bygone-yesteryear-rose-tinted-glasses-Englishey, that it would make a meathea…
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October 27, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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When sanity cracks, monsters surface.
Two dark thrillers from The Cumbrian Chronicles—twisted, chilling, unforgettable.
Free with Kindle Unlimited.

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Her Other Half: A Cumbrian Chronicles Short Story (The Cumbrian Chronicles) eBook : Marriott, Martin : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Her Other Half: A Cumbrian Chronicles Short Story (The Cumbrian Chronicles) eBook : Marriott, Martin : Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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October 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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Snippets: Cyril, Take It Away!
Good evening, Ladybirds and Jellyspoons! Welcome back for another night of frivolities, slapstick humour, embarrassing moments, regrettable sexual encounters, and of course—crazy ex-partners. I’m y…
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October 26, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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Snippets: We Shoot Magpies On A Thursday
“When winter comes to Gorstenholme, Loki himself packs up his tools of evil deeds and scarpers for more accommodating climes.” That’s what Grandma Zopa always said. She’d been dead four springs now…
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October 25, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Snippets: The Wilderness
The wilderness I find myself in is almost swallowed by darkness. A faint glimmer of light flickers from somewhere above. There—just there—in the distance, I hear laughter… from a television? The mo…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:52 AM
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Snippets: Mother
The wind whipped, and the rain howled its hatred. The cold tore at their flesh, dragging their souls, screaming, to Hades. On they trudged, every step heavy and laboured. The unforgiving sand was t…
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October 23, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Snippets: Mr. Fabian’s Old Curiosity Box.
DORIAN COLERIDGE CAME TO HIS SENSES and found himself sitting opposite a very old man with a shrivelled face, tiny grey eyes deeply set in his skull, and a few wisps of white hair extending from hi…
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October 22, 2025 at 4:57 AM
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Snippets: We Burn It Down
We tear it all down. We burn it down. We scorch the earth. We turn the soil black. We lay waste to it all. Leave no stone, no building, no soul unturned or untouched by our righteous hands. Leave t…
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October 21, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Snippets: Angelo
Angelo Barnard was well-traveled. His profession had taken him to all corners of the globe, even Antarctica. He’d nearly lost the trigger finger on his left hand to frostbite, and every now and the…
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October 20, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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When we don’t see the signs,
When we don’t recognize the same old rhetoric,
When we don’t learn from the #past,
It will become our future.

Be very careful what you wish for—
It may come with teeth.

Sharp. Hungry. Jagged. Teeth.
That may just bite… you.

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September 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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After so many years
In marital union,
She #yearns to be seen again—
Truly seen and adored,
Not as a mother or wife,
But as a lover.

After so many years
In marital union,
He yearns for the touch of his lover,
Not the mother of children,
Nor that of his duty-bound wife,
But that of his lover.
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August 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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I stumble,
giddy and full of Guinness.
How the black stuff makes you immortal.

On the grass, I giggle.
Up at the stars, I stare,
trying to make out a #constellation—
the Plough… Orion…

Nope.
Just stars.
So many stars.

Hiccup.
Giggle.
Hiccup.

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August 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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The ills of man bleed into the fabric of society.
We don the coat, the shirt, and the trousers woven from such things.
We gasp, cough, and splutter at the #pungent smell of what we have created.
Eyes turn blind, conscience pleads not guilty.

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August 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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Just saw Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning. Gave it a solid 8/10.
I think they should reboot it from scratch and have Timothée Chalamet play a new IMF agent named Edward Knox.

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June 1, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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New book!
Found a lovey bookshop in Bath called Topping & Company Booksellers.

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May 31, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Once again, I feel creatively stifled.
I’m forcing myself to write something, but it feels… fake. Like a cheap coat passed off as the Real McCoy.
Maybe it’s because I’m reading American Psycho, and it’s starting to bore me. Just 30 more pages to go.
May 2, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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May 2, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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May 1, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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April 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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30 twisted tales. One dark imagination. From time-traveling sheds to AA meetings with Dracula, Thirty Very Short Stories is bite-sized brilliance for lovers of the weird, wicked, and wonderful. Now available as an ebook!

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Thirty Very Short Stories eBook : Marriott, Martin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
Thirty Very Short Stories eBook : Marriott, Martin: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store
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April 30, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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April 29, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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April 28, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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April 27, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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A Brief Saturday #Newsletter

…Meanwhile, in Rome, men in funny party hats and extravagant gowns bury an elderly man who was elected by a selection of suspicious-looking men to be God’s highest vessel upon Earth.

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April 26, 2025 at 11:10 AM
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Happy Saturday, you beautiful people!

In addition to writing prose, I’m also a singer-songwriter.
I’ve just released three songs on iTunes, Spotify, and other platforms.

If you get a chance, please check them out!

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April 26, 2025 at 7:09 AM