R. M. Francis

Halloween weekend is almost here. To help celebrate, here's a playlist of stories from @RMFrancis 's horror collection, Ameles/ Currents of Unmindfulness (available from @PoeGirlPub ) . youtube.com/playlist?list=PL…

“The modern writer is not obliged to go to the trouble of writing clearly and thoughtfully, Orwell says. You can surrender to the ease of ‘throwing your mind open and letting the ready-made phrases come crowding in. They will construct your sentences for you – even think your thoughts for you, to a certain extent – and at need they will perform the important service of partially concealing your meaning even from yourself.’ If this was true of the age of mass media, it is even truer in an age where AI can sever writing from conscious thought altogether.” —Ryan McCormick plough.com/articles/gumming-…

A statement on yesterday….. Everything I said in that interview was true. However, rest assured I’m doing my best to turn things round. I have been in a mental health clinic for the last 10 weeks, finally discharging so I could attempt to play in Belfast I owed that to my family, in particular my daughter to see me play for what could be the last time….. I also owed it to the fans who have supported me throughout my 21 years on tour I also owed that to World Snooker who have been amazing from day on in all this, in particular Simon Brownell and Neil Tomkins who have remained in touch regularly, even Simon paying me a visit in the clinic itself I’m not ok, but I’m ok in that itself. I’ve been much worse in the last few months than you saw yesterday. I literally didn’t see a future in anything….. My daughter kept me going, the therapists, staff and all the other patients were amazing and helped me through some really dark days I see the light now that I couldn’t see before but I do now. I also know it won’t happen overnight. I’m a work in progress!!! My fight and determination on the table has always been there for ones to see. I need to show those same fighting qualities off it now for a while Please don’t detract anything from Jordan yesterday, he’s been aware of my struggles and that can’t have been easy to play in but he handled it with grace and skill as I knew he would. Im proud to call him a friend I hope the rest of the event is a success and I will continue my treatments going forward and then see what’s ahead Thank you to every single message I have received on here, instagram, Facebook, text messages and WhatsApp’s, I’ve seen them all but a bit overwhelmed to reply right now. Just know that they have helped me a lot but I’m not going anywhere just yet!!!! I have so much to live for and this is only the beginning of my new journey Also, I was not made to do any interviews, I was simply given a choice and felt I owed it to everyone to speak. The media team at WST have been incredible through all this too Thank you all x

"When efficiency becomes the ultimate measure of value, human beings are often tempted to see themselves as mere projects to be optimized rather than as individuals called to relationship and communion." -- Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica Humanitas

THE FINAL STAREDOWN 😤 🇬🇧 Daniel Dubois - 253.9 lbs 🇬🇧 Fabio Wardley- 248.3 lbs Daniel Dubois and Fabio Wardley are all set for their WBO heavyweight title rematch in London, tomorrow night on DAZN ✅

My new collection of short stories with superb artwork by Tony Chenery available from Culture Matters: culturematters.org.uk/cm-pub…

Pleased to be presenting at True Crime Sessions on 21st November in Brum: #truecrimesessions