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The Day, Every Day

She woke up, letting her eyes become accustomed to the half-light, accustomed to the ordinary, to her life, to her half-life. The curtains, with...
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Coffee Shop Fade Out

Coffee Shop Fade Out I’m seeing this all, saturated in the stain of winter. It’ll be someday soon. Maybe after Twelfth Night. I will be with her in...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 46

petula approaches the door patrycja stands to one side I can almost imagine her having a gun petula reaches to ring the bell wait, why aren’t you...
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A Hare's Breath 2 - The Bicycle

The thoughts of a wee boy in a wee town in the North of Ireland in the late 1960s and his love for a white Morris 1000 van and hares and bicycles.

Awake

Awake I had the strangest dream I dreamt I was sat across the table from two men Who described themselves as anti woke I asked them what is woke ?...
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Wargames

Whirlwind. Loren and Crait took a moment to pause. Lore and The New Hologram found them in familiar environs. “It’s been about an hour since their...
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GOODBYE, SOUL BROTHER 1 Continued

1.20. and in near silent Fusaichi every vibration of a cicada, every tremble of a dancing leaf, every lef and every rye and every hada in between...
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Variable

When the hysterics home in me: it is uncanny, a new sort of normal. He says he loves how my kitty eyes turn lynx cat when I lose it. He makes me feel...
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R&D 5

They stood waiting. The first gulls met the day with their ragged crying over the tenement rooftops, the boards on the pier slick underfoot. Fog...
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Writing with a cigarette.

He is a man standing alone in front of the whole world dressed only in his words and the ash from a thousand cigarettes, judged by seas and mountains...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 45

we left ginny in the pub with patrycja she definitely did wake up, arms and legs everywhere pints dribbling from her chin sat next to her, had the...
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“Blessed are the peacemakers …”

Brothers, neighbours, nearby nations: misjudgements, misunderstandings ancient grievances hatred set in stone, each others’ characters unknown, – and...
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Finding the Give in Bernard Manning

She deduced he was the comic because he was in want of a smile. He also wanted the corner table dead on ten to. He wanted a pitcher of Theakstons and...
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The Slope Between Us

We knew it from the start - not with words, but with that quiet intuition that slips beneath the ribs when two people recognise a beauty they cannot...
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Run OF The Arrow

Suddenly, a glimmer of hope caught Quinn's eye. Ahead, the endless plain gave way to a shallow, rocky rise. Not a mountain, not even a hill, but a...
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Inquisitoriam

Shaking. Loren was still holding the Faochite corpse, quaking in fear, anger, sorrow, confusion. The police did their best to keep the crowds back...
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Silly nonsense.

Footsteps on a gravel path after midnight are generally associated with intruders of malevolent intent. The crunch rings out clearly in an otherwise...
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My Dinosaur Era Chapter 44

how do you find my style to read? for me, long blocks of text with regular punctuation are difficult to navigate this feels easier to write and to read my brain is wired weird
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The Ripple Path

Life moves in circles, well at least that’s how I see it, soft as rings on still water, each moment touching the next before we even notice. We rush...
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