![empress piru: i DECiDE](https://i0.wp.com/npryan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/222heaed1.jpg?ssl=1)
i DECiDE retains the Spanish/Persian flavour, cyberpunk feel of previous empress piru releases, while also taking on a more urgent, in-the-present, grittier edge. Opener ‘Ni una meanos !’ would sound perfectly at home in a Tarantino movie, particularly if he ever decided to make one centred on crazed prowling cats.
![Halfway to Paradise](https://i0.wp.com/npryan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/web-header.jpg?ssl=1)
A recent and unexpected run-in with a deadly infection lead to writing this in the days just after being discharged from hospital when everything still felt an absolute mess. The phenomena written about below—‘the flavour’—is a consequence of too much bacteria being in the stomach. No one at the hospital told me to expect it […]
![Split Pin](https://i0.wp.com/npryan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/jude-web-header.jpg?ssl=1)
Poetry on the subject of deceivers. With much thanks to Jude K. S. for use of the header image x
![Hot Coals & High Mountains](https://i0.wp.com/npryan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/eroded-web-head.jpg?ssl=1)
A tale of the worst type of betrayal. Header image courtesy Connor Dugan (licensing).
![Dryadic: No Time Like The Present](https://i0.wp.com/npryan.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/web-head-dryadic.jpg?ssl=1)
No Time Like The Present opens with upbeat foot-tapper ‘The Hat’; a story of gigging here, there and everywhere told in a cheeky Ian Drury-esque vein; smiling through not simply the trials of life but more so the death sentence of using Ryanair and then laughing riotously about it all with new best friends for […]