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#ThePriceOfTime
#ThePriceOfTime
September 29, 2026 at 6:58 AM
You can always buy my book instead 😀 It's far more interesting!
#ThePriceOfTime
#ThePriceOfTime
"I'll make you fill each unrelenting minute
with sixty seconds'-worth of graft and #grime.
I'll own your world, and everything that's in it -
and you'll forever pay #ThePriceOfTime"
(the evil #StanMills channels his inner Kipling)
#SciFiFri #faustian
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with sixty seconds'-worth of graft and #grime.
I'll own your world, and everything that's in it -
and you'll forever pay #ThePriceOfTime"
(the evil #StanMills channels his inner Kipling)
#SciFiFri #faustian
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March 6, 2026 at 11:13 AM
"I'll make you fill each unrelenting minute
with sixty seconds'-worth of graft and #grime.
I'll own your world, and everything that's in it -
and you'll forever pay #ThePriceOfTime"
(the evil #StanMills channels his inner Kipling)
#SciFiFri #faustian
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with sixty seconds'-worth of graft and #grime.
I'll own your world, and everything that's in it -
and you'll forever pay #ThePriceOfTime"
(the evil #StanMills channels his inner Kipling)
#SciFiFri #faustian
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The whole shifted as she stared at it; as if her eyes couldn’t make sense of it — couldn’t even focus on it. Like a badly-done special effect from the early days of film it looked there, but also — somehow — somewhere else.
#SciFiFri #shift #ThePriceOfTime
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#SciFiFri #shift #ThePriceOfTime
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February 13, 2026 at 2:57 PM
The whole shifted as she stared at it; as if her eyes couldn’t make sense of it — couldn’t even focus on it. Like a badly-done special effect from the early days of film it looked there, but also — somehow — somewhere else.
#SciFiFri #shift #ThePriceOfTime
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#SciFiFri #shift #ThePriceOfTime
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“You didn’t reckon much to the #prospect of eternal life, did you? Turned it down flat when I offered you it.”
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.
#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.
#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy
September 22, 2025 at 8:26 PM
“You didn’t reckon much to the #prospect of eternal life, did you? Turned it down flat when I offered you it.”
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.
#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy
She struggled at the #knot fastening her hands. “That’s... not fair!”
She grasped at an idea.
#MartialMonday
#Penstricken
#ThePriceOfTime #Fantasy
“But you must wager something in return: something of your own, as I have staked my Plan.”
Silence fell as the words sunk in.
“I don’t understand. All...your plan. Isn’t that enough?”
“No, lass. I want summat out of this.”
#MartialMonday #SciFi #ThePriceOfTime
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Silence fell as the words sunk in.
“I don’t understand. All...your plan. Isn’t that enough?”
“No, lass. I want summat out of this.”
#MartialMonday #SciFi #ThePriceOfTime
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July 7, 2025 at 6:21 PM
“But you must wager something in return: something of your own, as I have staked my Plan.”
Silence fell as the words sunk in.
“I don’t understand. All...your plan. Isn’t that enough?”
“No, lass. I want summat out of this.”
#MartialMonday #SciFi #ThePriceOfTime
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Silence fell as the words sunk in.
“I don’t understand. All...your plan. Isn’t that enough?”
“No, lass. I want summat out of this.”
#MartialMonday #SciFi #ThePriceOfTime
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They hadn’t gone #far when Verity’s curiosity got the better of her. What would a city at night look like if you could see everybody’s fears?
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime
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#scififri #ThePriceOfTime
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May 30, 2025 at 9:35 AM
They hadn’t gone #far when Verity’s curiosity got the better of her. What would a city at night look like if you could see everybody’s fears?
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime
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I wrote 'near-future' scifi i with a dystopian edge in 2017, and got overtaken by events! #ThePriceOfTime is still worth a read, mind, for the warnings.
May 29, 2025 at 9:19 PM
I wrote 'near-future' scifi i with a dystopian edge in 2017, and got overtaken by events! #ThePriceOfTime is still worth a read, mind, for the warnings.
The audience of students watched, transfixed. Would she sign?
She mustn’t. She couldn’t. Not now.
It would destroy everything she’d worked for: earned, fair and square.
It wasn’t how these things were meant to go. Not even now, in the enterprising 80s: Thatcher’s Britain.
#satsplat #thepriceoftime
She mustn’t. She couldn’t. Not now.
It would destroy everything she’d worked for: earned, fair and square.
It wasn’t how these things were meant to go. Not even now, in the enterprising 80s: Thatcher’s Britain.
#satsplat #thepriceoftime
March 29, 2025 at 4:28 PM
The audience of students watched, transfixed. Would she sign?
She mustn’t. She couldn’t. Not now.
It would destroy everything she’d worked for: earned, fair and square.
It wasn’t how these things were meant to go. Not even now, in the enterprising 80s: Thatcher’s Britain.
#satsplat #thepriceoftime
She mustn’t. She couldn’t. Not now.
It would destroy everything she’d worked for: earned, fair and square.
It wasn’t how these things were meant to go. Not even now, in the enterprising 80s: Thatcher’s Britain.
#satsplat #thepriceoftime
Quite.
In #ThePriceOfTime, a character notices that the idea of "enough" sets you free!
In #ThePriceOfTime, a character notices that the idea of "enough" sets you free!
March 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Quite.
In #ThePriceOfTime, a character notices that the idea of "enough" sets you free!
In #ThePriceOfTime, a character notices that the idea of "enough" sets you free!
Her heart nearly stopped at the sight of him. His angular shape like a black rip in the cheerful fabric of the room.
“You usually wait till the screen’s completely black before you turn to get up. Don’t you, hmm?”
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime #complete
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“You usually wait till the screen’s completely black before you turn to get up. Don’t you, hmm?”
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime #complete
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The Price of Time
Some people have a Guardian Angel. Others aren’t so lucky and have a Guardian Devil.
One autumn night Verity Player comes face-to-face with evil genius Stan ‘Satanic’ Mills, mastermind of the mechanis...
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February 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Her heart nearly stopped at the sight of him. His angular shape like a black rip in the cheerful fabric of the room.
“You usually wait till the screen’s completely black before you turn to get up. Don’t you, hmm?”
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime #complete
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“You usually wait till the screen’s completely black before you turn to get up. Don’t you, hmm?”
#scififri #ThePriceOfTime #complete
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But #inbetween the lines, the more sensitive & far-sighted among those Journal authors - even though bound, by their profession, to describe their findings in the most emotionless prose possible - have nevertheless committed a part of their innermost fears to their works
#BookishTues #ThePriceOfTime
#BookishTues #ThePriceOfTime
a person is taking a book out of a bookshelf with a netflix logo in the corner
Alt: A person taking a book - possibly of scientific findings - from a library bookshelf.
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February 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
But #inbetween the lines, the more sensitive & far-sighted among those Journal authors - even though bound, by their profession, to describe their findings in the most emotionless prose possible - have nevertheless committed a part of their innermost fears to their works
#BookishTues #ThePriceOfTime
#BookishTues #ThePriceOfTime
Heavy waves of sleep rolled over her mind, compounding the effects of the wine.
She stared as the flames took hold.
“I can tell you’re feeling that all this has made your life worthwhile, hmm?”
“Yes. Yes I suppose I am.”
“So why are you crying?”
#Scififri #Compound #ThePriceOfTime
She stared as the flames took hold.
“I can tell you’re feeling that all this has made your life worthwhile, hmm?”
“Yes. Yes I suppose I am.”
“So why are you crying?”
#Scififri #Compound #ThePriceOfTime
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Alt: A fire - logs burning
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February 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Heavy waves of sleep rolled over her mind, compounding the effects of the wine.
She stared as the flames took hold.
“I can tell you’re feeling that all this has made your life worthwhile, hmm?”
“Yes. Yes I suppose I am.”
“So why are you crying?”
#Scififri #Compound #ThePriceOfTime
She stared as the flames took hold.
“I can tell you’re feeling that all this has made your life worthwhile, hmm?”
“Yes. Yes I suppose I am.”
“So why are you crying?”
#Scififri #Compound #ThePriceOfTime
“That fear of yours: it’s not like the mundane fears. It’s hard to come by, pure fear with no #object. You only find it in a one who has no other fears.”
His voice softened.
“You feel it as being disorientated, lost; losing your path through Time. Don’t you, hmm?”
#vss365 #scififri #ThePriceOfTime
His voice softened.
“You feel it as being disorientated, lost; losing your path through Time. Don’t you, hmm?”
#vss365 #scififri #ThePriceOfTime
a woman in a white dress is trying to stop a clock from breaking
Alt: a woman in a flowing white dress, struggling to stop a clock from disintegrating and floating away into the darkness
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January 31, 2025 at 10:21 PM
“That fear of yours: it’s not like the mundane fears. It’s hard to come by, pure fear with no #object. You only find it in a one who has no other fears.”
His voice softened.
“You feel it as being disorientated, lost; losing your path through Time. Don’t you, hmm?”
#vss365 #scififri #ThePriceOfTime
His voice softened.
“You feel it as being disorientated, lost; losing your path through Time. Don’t you, hmm?”
#vss365 #scififri #ThePriceOfTime
“You’ve only just woken up in time to ask the #question. So best be quick: sun sets in just over a minute.”
He smiled.
She suspected #foul play: at least, the nearest to it he could get away with.
#vss365 #martialmonday #ThePriceOfTime
He smiled.
She suspected #foul play: at least, the nearest to it he could get away with.
#vss365 #martialmonday #ThePriceOfTime
the sun is shining through the trees over a river
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January 6, 2025 at 9:58 PM
“You’ve only just woken up in time to ask the #question. So best be quick: sun sets in just over a minute.”
He smiled.
She suspected #foul play: at least, the nearest to it he could get away with.
#vss365 #martialmonday #ThePriceOfTime
He smiled.
She suspected #foul play: at least, the nearest to it he could get away with.
#vss365 #martialmonday #ThePriceOfTime
He #scanned the room: the sharp knives; tall glass cupboards and wine bottles, and behind him the flames and firedamp for cooking... No. He couldn’t leave her in this place when her mind — her power of reason — had broken.
#scififri #scifi #ThePriceOfTime
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#scififri #scifi #ThePriceOfTime
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The Price of Time
Some people have a Guardian Angel. Others aren’t so lucky and have a Guardian Devil.
One autumn night Verity Player comes face-to-face with evil genius Stan ‘Satanic’ Mills, mastermind of the mechanis...
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January 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
He #scanned the room: the sharp knives; tall glass cupboards and wine bottles, and behind him the flames and firedamp for cooking... No. He couldn’t leave her in this place when her mind — her power of reason — had broken.
#scififri #scifi #ThePriceOfTime
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#scififri #scifi #ThePriceOfTime
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She came face to face with her Guardian Devil.
She made a wager she could stop his devastating plan.
She didn’t mean to...
#Fantasy #Psychological #ThePriceOfTime
She made a wager she could stop his devastating plan.
She didn’t mean to...
#Fantasy #Psychological #ThePriceOfTime
The Price of Time|Paperback
Some people have a Guardian Angel. Some aren't so lucky, and have a Guardian Devil.And lifelong green campaigner Verity Player of York has just come face-to-face with hers: evil genius Stan 'Satanic' ...
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December 12, 2024 at 8:59 PM
She came face to face with her Guardian Devil.
She made a wager she could stop his devastating plan.
She didn’t mean to...
#Fantasy #Psychological #ThePriceOfTime
She made a wager she could stop his devastating plan.
She didn’t mean to...
#Fantasy #Psychological #ThePriceOfTime
“Anyway, I’ve come to see if you want to #watch me at work again. You’ve seen how I raise Ambition and Indifference in folk. I’ve saved the big one for last: how I cultivate Fear.”
#Scififri #ThePriceOfTime #ItsFridaySomewhere
#Scififri #ThePriceOfTime #ItsFridaySomewhere
The Price of Time|Paperback
Some people have a Guardian Angel. Some aren't so lucky, and have a Guardian Devil.And lifelong green campaigner Verity Player of York has just come face-to-face with hers: evil genius Stan 'Satanic' ...
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November 30, 2024 at 6:58 PM
“Anyway, I’ve come to see if you want to #watch me at work again. You’ve seen how I raise Ambition and Indifference in folk. I’ve saved the big one for last: how I cultivate Fear.”
#Scififri #ThePriceOfTime #ItsFridaySomewhere
#Scififri #ThePriceOfTime #ItsFridaySomewhere
She came face to face with her guardian Devil.
She made a wager she could foil his devastating plan.
She didn't mean to...
#Fantasy #SciFi #Psychological #Philosophical #ThePriceOfTime
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She didn't mean to...
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May 30, 2024 at 9:05 PM
She came face to face with her guardian Devil.
She made a wager she could foil his devastating plan.
She didn't mean to...
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She made a wager she could foil his devastating plan.
She didn't mean to...
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These are the people who measure, and know, nothing but money
"Debt *forgiveness*. For the people around this table, that would be cataclysmic..."
- Verity Player, #ThePriceOfTime
"Debt *forgiveness*. For the people around this table, that would be cataclysmic..."
- Verity Player, #ThePriceOfTime
May 1, 2026 at 2:29 PM
These are the people who measure, and know, nothing but money
"Debt *forgiveness*. For the people around this table, that would be cataclysmic..."
- Verity Player, #ThePriceOfTime
"Debt *forgiveness*. For the people around this table, that would be cataclysmic..."
- Verity Player, #ThePriceOfTime
I'm not a fan of nuke power as ye know ( #ThePriceOfTime) but once it's built, it might as well run its course while your country builds up its Renewables and desperately works out how to deal with the nuclear waste etc.
March 25, 2026 at 11:12 AM
I'm not a fan of nuke power as ye know ( #ThePriceOfTime) but once it's built, it might as well run its course while your country builds up its Renewables and desperately works out how to deal with the nuclear waste etc.
"Each year, like a wave..."
#ThePriceOfTime
#ThePriceOfTime
February 2, 2026 at 7:21 PM
"Each year, like a wave..."
#ThePriceOfTime
#ThePriceOfTime
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