Pick of the day
Ginny. Part 2. the stranglers’ underpants
Posted by drew_gummerson on Sat, 27 Feb 2021
And it was that Summer, death of mother, metamorphosis from boy into girl and back again, that Ginny and Charles posted a notice on the board of Claire’s Roadside Café offering 5-7 year olds, “a once in a lifetime opportunity at a knockdown price”:
Latin lessons and open sea swimming.
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My New Nemesis
Posted by mitzi44 on Mon, 22 Feb 2021
It was small wonder that I was continually nursing a boil somewhere on my bottom...Read morePoem of the week
Getting Ready
Posted by Di_Hard on Wed, 24 Feb 2021
Gone the rag sound of a bird alone
dropped on naked silence
between dumpsters' grinding regurgitations
from horizon's bridge
and fuzzy pulse of cars below.
In the woods, now, everywhere you turn, birds are
hanging out bright bunting of their songs
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Story and Poem of the Month
Our Story and Poem for the month of January, very kindly chosen by onemorething:
As always, with such a wealth of diverse and fantastic writing shared here, it’s very hard to choose just one poem and story.
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Invitation: free Gresham lectures: John Mullan, Powers of the Novel; Mathematical Journeys and Structure in Fiction, Sarah Hart
We were sent this information recently, and I thought some of you might be interested. It's free and available to anyone - not just UK-based:
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Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel By Drew Gummerson.
Big congratulations to Drew Gummerson for the publication of Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel.
Available here:
https://www.beardedbadgerpublishing.com/
Review by Mark Burrow
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Picks of the Month
To a Lone Sailor
Posted by Kilb50 on Fri, 22 Jan 2021
'...sail steady, sail always, sail true.'
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My father’s bones
Posted by Simon Barget on Mon, 04 Jan 2021
When my father died, I asked for the body and they put it in a bag. It was a lot heavier than I thought; I had imagined a certain weight, I had scoped it out in my mind, but for some reason it turned out to be much heavier.
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