Pick of the day
Validation at Fast Phil's (Yeah Yeah Yeah)
Posted by ice rivers on Wed, 18 Jul 2018
As already confessed, I have a predilection towards singing the words "wild cherry cola" over and over in my brain.
When I mentioned this to my wife, she said "you're out of your mind".
I thought for awhile that I might be.
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Aftermath
Posted by airyfairy on Thu, 12 Jul 2018
I don’t associate cats with beaches. Dogs, yes, flappy ears and flappy paws, chasing balls and sticks, challenging the waves to a duel. But a domestic cat seems too self-contained a thing for a beach. A lion, or a tiger or a panther maybe, stalking the sand and staking its claim, I can see that. But a neighbourhood mog, with a smudge on its nose and suspicion in its eyes - no. What would a cat do with all that space?Read morePoem of the week
To my Unborn Son
Posted by Alfie Shoyger on Sat, 07 Jul 2018
My unborn son, I drill down through the wires
that thread my battered brain and ask,
“What kind of world will drag you through the fires
of earthy human passion?”
A world whipped on by trolls whose eyes are screens,
who wear a democratic mask,
rewiring human hearts into machines
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Story and Poem of the Week and Inspiration Point
Two picks this week - connected by being about life as it is today, and also connected because I found them both very moving in different ways.
Congratulations to airyfairy for Aftermath and to Alfie Shoyger for To my Unborn Son. Do read them:
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Story and Poem for the month of June very kindly selected by Sean McNulty:
Mirror World by Poetonahill
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POETRY MONTHLY
Poetry Monthly – July
Hello all,
Sorry for the delay in Poetry Monthly – I’ve been busy and then sloth-like in the heat when I’ve stopped!
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POETRY MONTHLY
Poetry Monthly – June
I hope everything is good where you are and you’ve managed to enjoy some sunshine!
Some inspired writing as usual on ABCtales from last month’s focus of ‘A Leap of Faith’.
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Picks of the Month
Operation March Hare
Posted by The Other Terre... on Sat, 09 Jun 2018
The Department is located in Whitehall, approximately six floors below ground level, in a sprawling maze of corridors known as the Rabbit Warren. The exact location remains obscure, not only does The Department not officially exist, the corridors themselves have neither beginning nor end. A visit there is as disorientating as being spun round the Large Hadron Collider a few million times at just shy of the speed of light. Read more