This email should have images. Can't see any images? Click here to see the images!

Welcome to Newsletter #244

A bunch of tales I wanted to share with you

A tale I read

Chef by Laurie Bolger

A tale I heard

Comedian Limmy on dark humour and Mrs Brown's Boys:

"When I’m making something, I prefer it to be darker and maybe that just comes from my experiences growing up in Glasgow. I like stuff that isn’t particularly funny, too, just observations we drag out, or making stupid faces and then being serious again. But there doesn’t always have to be darkness for something to be funny. Take Mrs Brown’s Boys – OK, I’m not sitting here waiting for it to come on, but I do like it. People criticise it because it’s straightforward but it’s easy to watch, it’s just people smiling and laughing."

A tale I saw

Amoeba by John Hegley

A tale I wrote

I don't wear a watch
but I check my wrist
from time to time. My body
feels perpetually late to things
I've never heard of. I wonder
where I need to be and what
I need to say and if I put
my skin in the tumble dryer
last night. Two hairs past a freckle,
my Dad says when his Casio
is left upstairs. I watch my son
melt when it's bedtime
and the sun is still in the sky. I look
at my wrist, no freckles, a few hairs
and some veins hoping they'll be around
to make the same joke.

A tail I like

Enjoyed these tales? Forward this to a friend or read more at carltellstales.com

Someone shared this newsletter with you? Sign up here.

I wrote a book! I'm very proud of the book. Buy the book here.