Certificate PG

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Twelve Plastic Chairs (2/2)

A big brash man with a deep organic tan clumps in, shod in work boots. He drops his bulk into a mid-row seat with a force that makes its legs screech...
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Twelve Plastic Chairs (1/2)

The messages keep piling up in my inbox, a smattering of love across social media. How are you doing? Hey, let’s Skype! Saw this and thought of you...

The Searcher 1

I am a person. I have lived my life for pleasure. I have drunk every wine. I have done every drug. I have had sex with men and women. I thought that...
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A writer, I am becoming.

I wasn’t born with a pen in my hand. No lightning bolt struck. No gods whispered, “Kate, you are chosen.” I just hurt, Quietly. And words, Were the...

Holidays in Time 2

I sat with Chris in the front room of his flat. He sat in front of a desktop computer which was on a stand in front of his wooden chair. I sat on the...
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The lyre of Orpheus

There was a summer, not long after Breathless came out, when I listened to it on repeat. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — a song unlike most of theirs,...
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In The Garden Where The Fairies Dwell

In The Garden Where The Fairies Dwell By Paul McCann There’s a place I know where we can go and stay just as long as you’re there and if you are one...
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Hollyhock Tears Or Whispers Of Gods.

This poem is based on a Greek tale. When rain came and flowers grew, Pieuronian princess wept for her son, glazed eyes weakened by distress at what...
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