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Story of the week
The Sleep Olympics
Posted by Terrence Oblong on Sat, 09 Nov 2019
I was asleep when the Sleep Olympics started, meaning I missed out on all the dramatics of the Japanese contestant’s non-regulation pajama bottoms and the Brazilian candidate’s illicit Horlicks test. I slept through the whole of the first round, meaning I finished the day in gold medal position.Read more
Poem of the week
Trees on the Arapuni Road
Posted by Philip Sidney on Sat, 09 Nov 2019
When they felled the high trees
mother was delighted
she lived in fear of their imminent collapse
onto our matchbox house
despite their wounds
they lived on
great bodies stretched alongside the road
still elegant in their diminishment
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Picks of the Month
Seven Nights in the Flamingo Hotel
Posted by drew_gummerson on Sun, 27 Oct 2019
At five o’clock in the morning you are woken by the sounds of the couple in the next room arguing and this surprises you because the previous night they had kept you up with their passionate love making. And why should they have all the fun! Leaping up from your bed you had pressed your ear against the wafer-thin wall, Oh yes!
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Never trust a writer
Posted by Parson Thru on Fri, 04 Oct 2019
Or even someone who just writes
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