Author: PJH

PJ Holden is a comic artist and this is his blog.

The Edge

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

Phew! Back to comics! John has a tweet coming, our current intermission schedule will be a tweet every wednesday with a corresponding comic. Pretty much how we’ve done the foklore thursday, except we’re gonna be a little more free with
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Quick update

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

I just wanted to say thanks so much to everyone who has supported PJ and I up until this point and who is continuing to do so. I know this little intermission period isn’t really what people signed up for
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Black Cat

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

This week I’m working on a 1,500 word story for Skrawl Comix Magazine #1 so I’m cheating (again) and giving supporters an exclusive read of the first 550ish words. Shhh, don’t tell anyone.  — MISSING – BLACK CAT The posters
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#4 – “Mandrake”

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

The roots of the Mandragora genus of plants are known as Mandrakes. Once prized as magical ingredients they are hallucinogenic and highly toxic. It was once believed that when uprooted, the Mandrake would scream. Its terrible cry striking dead any
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Next Year’s Ghost

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

Cheating a little bit this week as I’ve got a lot going on. Apologies.  Instead of a brand new short fiction, I’ve dug out something from 2013 which hopefully you’ll enjoy.  —- Some people may think it morbid to take
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Guardian

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

The beach was loud. Not with music blaring from phone speakers, people having picnics, children squealing with laughter, or any of that kind of thing. It wasn’t that sort of beach. Not today. Today the sky was grey, and so
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#3 – “Hawthorne”

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

In 1990 work on the Limerick to Galway motorway halted. A lone tree stood in its way. The Hawthorne, according to tradition, belonged to the Sidhe (Ireland’s Fairies). Disturbing such sites is forbidden. A curve was added. The road snaking
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Owl Pellets

Posted on 15th February 2024 by PJH

Jen didn’t like the owls. She didn’t like the noise they made. That Jurassic World screech. It was a horrible, greedy sound. A wicked sound.  “Get some exercise“, meant that Jen should go and wear herself out for an hour
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