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Hot Dry Noodles

I know a woman who killed her teacher In the revolution And who cooks up The finest noodles – and easily the spiciest – In the mortal arts. Oh...
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oh Lord deliver me
oh Lord deliver me I'm waiting outside in the corridor staring at my trainers a soup stain on my jeans reminds me of Italy the drinks machine does...
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Spring is Late this Year

I found this. It was written in 2010. I'd been living in Spain for six years by then. I was doing A363 Creative Writing with the OU. Lord knows how much that would cost now. Aunty Betty paid for mine, part of the resettlement deal when you left after a long period of becoming institutionalised. I can't remember if it was even submitted for assessment. Don't think so. Anyway, it's a late bloomer's equivalent of juvenilia, I suppose. I've put two commas in. Treat it kindly. When the rainy month came in March or April, (there is only ever one per winter in Andalucia) I longed for Spring to start. Pic is used under CC.0 Public domain. Source PxHere.com
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"Give Me The Keys, Grandma" [Mister Martínez Nineteen]

I think I'd rather be a myth, too. Image taken by MARIA ROSA FERRE source, flicker.com used under licence CC.2.0
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Flamingo Hotel. Bookings Now Open.

My novel, Seven Nights at the Flamingo Hotel is now available to pre-order. You can do it here . It will be Bearded Badger Press’s launch title and...
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Mrs Bucket Mouth
Mrs Bucket Mouth by Paul McCann You know Mrs Bucket Mouth well she rang me up yesterday . I couldn’t get a single word in , she had so much to say...
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three in the bed

three in the bed over and over I told her this is just a passing fling, but Maeve built a fairyland - lost herself in it – of love, I wanted mostly...
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Letter To My Younger Self
Dear Eleven year old me, so clear a scene like out of a movie I find myself gazing at you back in the corridor of my old Victorian school, a shy...
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Moonshine

This is very old, and I'm quite surprised at where I found it, between a pantoum and a villanelle, which puts it during the second year of my CW Diploma with the OU. Naturally, that shows, but at least it's not poetry, eh? Image is PUBLIC DOMAIN... hoorah. Source Wikicommons.
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The Abbott Hotel (Chapter 1)
My name is Tatiana, and I work as a receptionist at The Abbott Hotel. It was founded a few hundred years ago and remains one of the oldest operating...
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