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I Saw a Man
I saw a man with a barcode tattooed to the back of his head. I wondered if he was a robot. Or perhaps, more accurately, a cyborg. And then I wondered...
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Anachronistic Harry
1. A thought popped randomly into Harry’s head: anachronism: something or someone that is not in its correct historical or chronological time,...
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reset barn
reset barn i need a reset barn a space of timber leaf and loam corded with shade and supple sorrowed solitude a waiting place more heart than home...
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with claws and beak
with claws and beak traffic spoons itself onto concrete before the mist has chance to warm up trains make leaning angles before animal snuffles...
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Too Much Everything
There's too much everything out there today. Even through the windows I feel it. A dim rising murmur of this-and-that-and-this-again Pillowing the...
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In the beginning
I think its been about 7 years since it all started, and about 6 months since it ended. End was never a word that i thought i'd have to associate...
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Why I Hope The Jehovah's Witnesses Are Wrong
The Jehovah's Witnesses believe that only 144,000 people will be in Heaven. They believe that people don't go to Heaven when they die. They believe...
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Pack up your troubles
While there's a Lucifer to light your fag Buck-up, there!
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Ann. (RIP 25.10.2018A.D.)
A few years ago my Daughter Megan wanted both of us to run for Cancer Research, I said, “OK,” then I realized it would cost me £25 it turned out I...
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Crazu the Brave
Crazu the Brave wasn’t very brave. In fact, he was positively cowardly. He would hide in a corner and cry at the sight of a balloon. And other things...
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Fear of Accusation
When women lie, Men cry. I don't know why. Or do I? Penetrative sex is rape she said. I'm no rapist. They writhed with me for intimacy And I clawed...
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- 666 reads
Packed away
I look down at my finger, where his ring used to be. You can still see where the thick band used to sit, the skin is paler and less worn there, once...
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The Cousins
Lealand rolled over on his side of the bed, pushing back against the wall of pillows built between him and his cousin. There was a sigh and a...
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Before the rest of us becomes the dust carried by light beams
The history of words is our history, preached the librarians from their chairs with tall backs, form their spiraled staircases in mahogany old wood,...
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Swords At South Gate Part 1
My first rule is leave when things go south. Rules keep you alive so most of ‘em are like that. Here we are south courtyard, watching city boys flee...
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Base Camp
I know this place This space, my landing After that familiar fall Towards the silence Of my enduring cell I’ve been here before Closed and still...
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Do you know who made you?
For sure, I have seen the invitation. It was an old-fashioned one. A nicely designed envelope with a matching letter. Ornate fond, effective images...
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- 446 reads
Secrets
You didn’t realise what you were doing, the damage you caused by not walking away, by not saying no. There are so many questions I want to ask you,...
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The Florida Immigrants
It was the year of our Lord, 1513. The Spanish explorers, who came after Cristobol Colon (Columbus), had pushed further into the Caribbean Sea,...
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Joint
When my wife found my pot, she thought it was tea. And her employer fired her after he made her pee. My dad caught me when I smoked my very first...
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