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Another of Framlinghams adventures

I want to howl "Munch" crisp aisle scream cry til my head hurts face purples and I throw up break things smash them throw Teddy on the fire sob wet myself bang my head on the wall tear out hair

From force of light That wake me calm Bid black goodbye And demons goodnight

read this if you cinsider yourself an artist So what does it mean then to do art inspired by faith? It means to be tuned to such a degree that higher energy would flow into you; it means as an artist you have to be humble because you understand that what is given to you is not yours to have but to pass on. In this way art turns out to be an attempt to break the boundaries of day-to-day existence and self in a way that reaches out for the unreachable

"Grandfather, the little blonde haired girl asked as she came into the room, "what's this? She held up a plain wooden box, unadorned save for heavy black hinges and an intricate lock. "Grandfather? Are you alright? The old man caught his breath as the awful fear that had clutched his heart lessened a bit.

Love and Loss.

He came down for Christmas eagerly awaited by both, dumb to each other for years but resounding for him, their very own City boy. They swaddled him in praise, stroked his ego, him, love-soaked, befuddled,

On the corner of St Jude and St Thomas, a group of teenagers were dancing around a car that they had set ablaze. Spencer paused for a while to watch them, enjoying the heat from the flames. As he warmed himself, he heard the ubiquitous swooping noise of air being expelled from vertical engines, and looked up to see an angel coming in to land.

It wasn't long after my fifteenth birthday when I decided I was old enough to start going to pubs. Despite the law's view on this it didn't take much for me to convince my friend Ali Morrison, also recently turned fifteen, that he was old enough too. It was a pity that the bouncers of those pubs commonly frequently by the town's borderline age drinkers didn't agree. A Friday night spent traipsing round Ballymena soon let us know that it would be a few more years before we would be welcome in any of the town's licenced premises. Except here, in Mc Attamney's, a small side street pub we didn't know existed until then.