Ian Douglas

Writer's Biography

Ian grew up in the UK, went to college and started employment as a social worker. After his professional career left Ian a little crazier than it found him, he moved to East Asia and has spent the last ten years in Thailand with his wife and two small children.

As an artist Ian exhibits regularly around Bangkok. He also writes for local English-language magazines and newspapers under a variety of bizarre pen names. Not yet able to give up the day job, he teaches university students on the mysteries of verb tense, spelling and grammar.

Author's Website: www.iancdouglas.co.uk

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Bangkok, Thailand: Cornflakes and Pythons - Story by Ian Douglas
- Premier Online Issue

For once it was not my alarm clock that woke me. Instead the high-pitched shrieks of my wife yanked me from dreamland.

"Come quick, very big snake in the garden!" She screeched in her thick Thai accent. I stumbled sleepily downstairs, cussing to myself.

"How long is it going to be? Two foot? Three foot?" I pondered mockingly. In the kitchen both my wife and the maid were screaming like banshees. Pushing them aside in a brave, manly fashion I peered through the window. Outside on our veranda, lay an equally sleepy twelve-foot python. I began screaming in harmony with the womenfolk.

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