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Inspiration Point: based on 'Arbitrary Decimation' by jlb.

http://www.abctales.com/story/jlb/arbitrary-decimation

We're off to see the wizard...

Kopek views the whole panorama of human existence as a mere Zen paradox.

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You are so beautiful
when you talk about being attacked
when you were young
I sympathise with your attacker.

Freddie liked football, Freddie loved football. But football can cause a lot of trouble...

The balcony floor was covered in ash. My bare feet were buried in it, stained by dead embers. I raised my head and glanced across the earth.

The ocean was on fire.

Johnny Mondays was fast becoming the least popular private dick in all Norwich, and he wasn’t even a private dick.

how could hell appeal to anyone?

I wrote this following the 'scandal' where Cambridge students were asked to compare the lyrics of Amy winehouse to the lyrics of Sir Walter Raleigh. It's Sir Walter's response to the speculation.

Your pain is incurable.
Abandoned by every lover who felt
the intemperate shadow cast by eyes
that know there is no medicine.

At night you fetch juice from the refrigerator,

Oh yes, in me there’s scope for play –
I am the simplest shape; I am
sharp geometry. Sharp-edged. Pointed.

I am the other, to the you and the me,
the one that upsets our simple geometry.

Burning.

Inspired by Ewan's 'September' - the title and the wistful quality of which is all-absorbing!

The baby seagull's back in the doorway of Burger King, pacing up and down, pecking at plastic, twitchy like an addict.

“Can you believe you’re making love to this body?” Tabitha asked rhetorically, admiring and petting herself as I grinded it out, thinking of something else and looked for a cue to end it.

Inspired by the Poem "The black hand gang." By Wilkybarkid.
http://www.abctales.com/story/wilkybarkid/black-hand-gang

...already caught, any thoughts of the future had to involve prison. How would anyone fill their time waiting to be locked in a cell? Maybe he needed to learn a new skill.

We're in Luke's world now.

When a stubborn old frog is set adrift from his friends, it takes a white-water ride and an encounter with a toothy croc to bring him to his senses!