Christopher Bradbury Profile
Location: Barnsley, United Kingdom
Member Since: June 2013
Last online: September 2020
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Last Updated Sep 14, 2020
Age shall not wither me, but my back is f****d!
Hi All,
Well, there goes another birthday. In the words of the great Deep Purple - Whoosh.
I don't say this for the back-slapping, hearty congratulations which get doled out at the same time each year, but because I rarely see anything to celebrate in another year's decrepitude. I feel as if someone has taken a toffee hammer to my lower spine and is constantly chip-chipping away at it, sculpting from the remnants some sort of vision from hell. My heart is filled with fatballs bigger than those in London's sewers. I'm amazed that I can get upstairs to the toilet without a paramedic shouldering my burden behind me.
The only thing that is good about getting older is the experience. I wish that I had known what I know now at the age of fifteen. Life would have had fewer potholes and I would have reached my final destination considerably less shaken. Certainly my back would have been grateful.
I think I have grown more comfortable with myself with the years. At last, my skin seems to fit a little better, though I do still ramble though the brambles of regret a little too often for my liking.
I appreciate things more, from people to trees to words. I write better because I have had the experience that a writer needs. I am more tolerant of others. I do not sit and stew in traffic jams. I forgive, even if it is because I can simply no longer be arsed to be so angry all the time.
So, I look forward to another year, admittedly with very low expectations; that way, anything good is a bonus.
Keep on keeping on.
All the best to you and yours.
Chris B
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Chris Bradbury was born in 1962. He attended schools in Bracknell, Windsor, Mauritius and Bloxham and, despite all these, failed to learn a thing. He spent his formative years in a cocoon and failed to see the time go by. When he woke up he realised that it was too late.
He has been a shop worker, a hospital porter, worked in medical records, in the CSSD department, as an estate agent, as a nurse, as a delivery driver and a bus driver and now works in a warehouse, ironically for a one of Britain's best publishers of military books. Do they publish fiction? Do they heck as like! Hey ho.
Find me on YouTube - https://youtu.be/7BPrUPQsjLM
Visit my website - www.chrisbradburycreative.com
email me - chrisbradburycreative@yahoo.com
He has written over twenty books including the Mike Ward series of spy novels.
Books:
Semper Occultus
No Time to Repent
Phoenix - An Examination of the Causes of World War Two
The High Commissioner’s Wife
The Devil Inside
Catfish
Eidolon
The Stilling of the Heart
Shorts – A collection of novellas and short stories
Condition of Life - The Poetic Confessions of a Grumpy Old Man
The Ghost of Dormy Place and Other Tales
The Ashes of an Oak
A Kind and Gentle Man
Praxis (Sci-Fi Fantasy - with Ian Makinson)
Praxis – Part Two: Regeneration Paradox (Sci-Fi Fantasy - with Ian Makinson)
Praxis - Part 3 The Liar’s truth - (Sci-Fi Fantasy - with Ian Makinson)
Earthbound
Earthbound Part Two - Hellbound
Chine (Horror)
Uncomfortably Numb (Play)
The Scarlet Darter (fiction for children)
Unton’s Teeth and Other Tales of Wordful Mystification (poems for children)
A Beginner’s Guide to the Wars of the Roses
A Beginner’s Guide to Creative Writing
A Beginner’s Guide to Death
Just the Words - Poetry
Screenplays:
Mayflies
A Most Notorious Man
Chaddleworth - short
The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre - short
The Ease of the Affair - Talking Head
A Perfect Way – Talking Head
Uncomfortably Numb
Copywriting:
I work with Mainline Design of London.
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