Declan's Stories (and other Literary Stuff)

When I'm not pottering around in Declan's World of Stuff. I write the occasional short story. These are scattered over the web, and here I provide links to all the ones I can remember. There are also links to Ritchie's Diary and some of his other satirical meananderings. Additionally, I have enclosed some of my "poems", well I say poems really they are just lyrics in search of a song.

Short Stories

The Psychic Traveller
My Favourite. No one else's though.

Hop Tu Naa
A Halloween Tale

Through the Wormhole
Science Fictiony Thing

Deliverance on the Parish Walk
An on-going short story about the mysterious results of taking a short cut in a long distance walk.

Declan's Excellent Rock 'n' Roll Adventure
A true tale about a gig I played back in the day. Written in 1991, I've typed it up again and tidied some of the punctuation.

The Throwback
A story about football.

The Mad-Sunday Winner-Takes-All Free-For-All Rumble.
An old one I never got round to finishing.

Nissan Huts & Baldwin's Jag : A History of Jurby
A Look at the history of this noble Manx Village.

The Planet Earth's No.1 Being
A not entirely successful foray into Magic Realism.

The Shoprite Car-Park Path to Happiness
Written on the bus to work. Edited at lunchtime. And Posted in a web cafe before my bus home. A twisted love story that is one of my favorites.

Mannin Beg
I like this one why didn't I finish it?

The Fire Mushrooms
A Dark Fairy Tale.

The Collected Works of Ritchie

Ritchie's Journal pt1
Part 2: The Date With Chantelle
Part 3: Mr Patel Takes A Stand
Part 4: Mr Patel's Plan.

A long quartet of journal's regarding the adventures of Ritchie, a Manx Nationalist exiled on the Dole in England.

Ritchie's Manifesto
Ritchie Stands for Bromley Council on a Revolutionary Platform.

Letters To Santa
er... Letters to Santa

The Muffs
Ritchie's exclusive report from the 2002 Manxnet Users of the Forums Foundation Awards.

Day 27
Day 34 : The Musical
All does not go according to plan when the Manxnet Gang enter the Big Brother House with Hilarious Consequences

The War On Malapropism : A Special Report
Ritchie reports on the diplomatic efforts to prevent war.

The Manx Government's Minister For Information
Extracts from a live web chat between The Isle of Man Government's official spokesman Ritchie al Riki and members of theManx Net Forums

Inside the Gang of Four
Ritchie goes undercover to unmask the evil organisation that is destroying the forums.

It's Ritchie Barschak
The Queen Mother's birthday party is interrupted by an imposter in a bad pubic wig. Includes some lyrics to songs by top 80's beat combo The Stevens.

Ritchie's World of Pop
Ritchie's Hot Pop Gossip (updated semi-regularly)

I Love 2003
Nostalgia Ain't What It Used To Be

Construct-A-Post
um... not Ritchie's best.

Steven the Dragon and The Fire Mushrooms
A Fairy and Dragon Tale

The Isle of Man Excreta
Read all about it! Read all about it.

Communication Breakdown
Distribution of Inter and Intra Function Data.

Inside Tynwald
An unfinished tale of the Manx Politics.

1984
How the interweb used to be.

Ritchie : Cultural Commentator
Ever noticed how everything is connected? Ritchie has!

The Manx Net Pantomime : Sir Dick Whittington
Poverty and a shortage of cheese befalls Manx Punk's family.

Collaborations

With Matthew Kneale

Matthew and the Hamster
A strange collaboration with my friend Matthew Kneale when we were bored at work. It has been described as "deeply disturbing".

The Banger Banger
Sex, scandel, and cars.

By Alan Quirk (with a minute amount of assistence from Declan)

When You're Girlfriend's A Lesbian
A poem by Alan about one of his favourite subjects. I helped him a bit at work, by supplying words that rhyme with or are euphamisms for Lesbian. The hours fly by, I can tell you.

"Poetry" etc

I'm Dreaming of A Retro Christmas

Air Conditioning

Click Here for Eternal Happiness

Rock Star

The Cow Parade

Carter The Curious Cat

The Club Of The Desperate Survivor


© Declan 2003

Most of the Photos were stolen from Flowerpot and remain © Alan Quirk