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Our Metronome
He walks, our metronome, like a well-made poem past our kitchen window each day, 12.20 one way, 3.15 back again, surprisingly light on his feet and...
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Keep On (4)
For a while he only held the microphone. Under the hiss, on the other end, he could hear the room the man was in. A chair took weight and gave it...
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Frankenplot - The Gentleman's Wardrobe Part 2
As their son’s wedding approached, two things happened. Ian and Sylvia began struggling to sleep well. They considered the reasons why; latent...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May Part 2.
For the next ten days we saw nothing of Mrs. Blaggard. I overheard Mum and Stew’s mother talking about how bad tempered the old woman was becoming. "...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 5. May
Chapter Five. Roller Skates and Boards. I was in trouble again. Not with my parents this time, but with old Mrs. Blaggard. "You wait till I see your...
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The Doll's House Chapter 4.
Chapter Four. The Search Begins. Sophrayni left the clerk’s office with the names of five towns echoing in her mind: Wilford, Bilton, Darrowmere,...
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Poem IV · The Bill of Sale
Poem IV · the one who supplies and profits Bill of Sale The bystander world: the ones who look away in Poem III, and what they do with their hands...
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Whitechapel Via Monto
I had tasted exhaustingly distinguished and mad company before in Dublin and elsewhere during Patrick’s travels with the Gaelic League. Didn’t he...
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the hitchhiker
on route 11 standing alongside the road you will find a man a man with no name address unknown he carries no wallet no license no photograph no proof...
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Dear Vixen
Vixen, I have the most incredible news. He’s decided to fight for us. He promised he’ll never see her again and that he wants to rebuild everything...
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Keep On (3)
He said it a third time, word for word, and let go of the bar. The hiss came back. He had begun to hear things in it. A rise and fall like breathing...
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The Silly Season
The Silly Season In watching the nightly news, I notice by the content of the ads, that the silly season has firmly arrived. It is that particular...
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cotton
Stir before first light Last until last light A man forgotten Hard pew on a Sunday Abraham and Isaac The only sitting Preacher say black man be free...
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Bloody, Brawling Business CH12
(havent yet edited this chapter so there may be some slight changes later) “The king of Bame,” Scarlet said under her breath. She let out a soft...
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Bloody, Brawling Business CH11
“I’m glad you and Newton have found common ground,” said Yara. “Yeah, something’s seemed to click after his visit with Davilios. He definitely knows...
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The Doll's House Chapter 3.
Chapter Three . The Clerks’ Office. Sophrayni left the cottage at dawn. Her boots were damp with forest dew as she rode toward the royal palace...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 4. April. Part 2.
Maxie’s panic-stricken dash had brought him and us to the Willow Grove. This was a triangular patch of grass between two fields. The trees grew on...
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The Ashton Road Gang Chapter 4. April.
Chapter Four. Maxie. "Hey up," said Noddy. "Here comes Maxie." The gang were sat on the wall of No.72 at the bottom of Andy’s Bank. "Grotty little...
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Night walking
There's a beauty to the bridge
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Keep On (2)
The lighter went out on its own when the fuel in the neck ran low, and he let it. He lay in the dark of the corner with the bulb behind him and...
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