Certificate PG
Parental guidance suggested for children
Summer's warm glow is dying
Summer’s warm glow is dying, chill autumn grey reclining low up there, in the polluted vapour, as gloom of winter descends again. Traffic drags...
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- 345 reads
Angelique
You have to pay to get in now. Five dollars. I’m not sure if I mind or not. I try to imagine what the cashier would say if I told her why I was here...
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- 786 reads
A Pack of Camels
Sometime early in 1967 ‘Go down to Margie’s candy store and pick up a pack of Camels, a half-gallon of Neopolitan ice cream, and a coupla Pepsi’s.’...
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A Grandfather's Dying Wish
When you were eighteen, your dad kicked you out when you robbed a store. You would continually get in trouble and he couldn't put up with it anymore...
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- 366 reads
Soldier's Spirit
From dusk to twilight and throughout night and day there's a hush deep down here in the old wine cellar. I don't see what appears now, for time has...
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She Sits
in a small shadowy room twilight gone astray alone again. He called and cancelled the date. Doesn’t understand her loss of another good person-- a...
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- 1313 reads
A supermarket just before closing
A supermarket just before closing is like a seaside town in winter. An empty car park. Shelf stackers sit on kick stools stacking shelves. Evening...
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- 600 reads
Blackcurrant or orange squash
She takes a bottle of each. Robinson’s blackcurrant. Robinson’s orange squash. The only brand name in her trolley. No Pepsi, Persil or McCains it’s ‘...
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I See. I See
Mr. M. slouching against the building wall his family in apt 3 other side awakening with sounds of movement – he hears their rush to brush teeth and...
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- 815 reads