Shane Dobbie
Bio
If writing is a performance art then I’m tap dancing in wellies.
Stories (37/0)
- Top Story - July 2023
Mission Impossible: Dead ReckoningTop Story - July 2023
Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One, or, as I like to call it: Tom Cruise and the Elusive Maguffin, because that’s basically what they all boil down to. This one is no different. Which is a good thing. If it ain’t broke, don’t try and fix it.
By Shane Dobbie5 months ago in Geeks
The Mona Lisa Conundrum
The air at the Louvre was kept at a precise, low temperature to protect the art. However, in an ante-room away from the main exhibits temperatures were starting to rise. Security officer Louis Durand was the one losing his cool. He was joined by one of the Louvre’s art ‘connoisseurs’ (who lurked at the back of the room very much outside his comfort zone), and their chief suspect, a curious man who looked like Santa Claus - that is to say: long white hair and matching beard, but less jolly and more confused as to why he was here. Beside him on a table lay a used wooden paint pallet, a loaded brush, and an assortment of oil paints.
By Shane Dobbie5 months ago in Art
- Top Story - May 2023
- Top Story - April 2023
The Lady in the WindowTop Story - April 2023
I first noticed her in a store window. I was out picking up some bits of food shopping and, as always, my eye was constantly drawn to the colourful shop fronts around me. I happened a glance across the road at a ladies fashion store; not that I need such things what with being an established bachelor, but it was a colourful display and quite pleasing. At first, I assumed her to be a mannequin; a part of the window dressing, but as my eye lingered I realised she didn’t seem to fit. She was…how best to describe this to you: out of focus. Yes, like a camera image that is out of focus. I could make out her shape; enough so that I immediately recognised her as feminine; but abstract, like a surrealist painting where one recognises images but finds it hard to explain how.
By Shane Dobbie7 months ago in Fiction
- Top Story - April 2023
Show, Don't Tell.Top Story - April 2023
Show, don’t Tell! Anyone who fancies themselves a writer will have been told this at some point. It’s writing 101. Most of you will be nodding along to this thinking, “Listen up, Noobs, man’s about to throw down some classic advice.”
By Shane Dobbie7 months ago in Journal
