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School 1894

"You children should think yourselves lucky that you're going to school instead of washing slates all day," said Mother. "Oh, I am," said Tommy. "It'...

Mountain salute

TV swill inside my head yearn to follow adamantine thread Take the ferry across to Goat Fell where invigorating things dwell: chuckling Corrie Burn...

A LOVE LESS ORDINARY

Foxes cachinnate Into the infant day Her dreams are circumfused Into milk way She catches a glimpse of a sunbeam tardigrade He grieves for his youth...

ANACHRONISTIC WAYS

Anachronistic Ways Trespassing lizards still use The same route. Camouflaged, mute. Yet the German-Shephard barks. “It is the smell”, the shepherdess...
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CC 115: Schubert

Before the taxi arrived, I snuck in a wee question to see if it would win me anything to sleep comfortably with. I knew it wouldn’t by then, but I’d...
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Bourtree and Broom

Extracts from the kirk-session book of Pitfoglum: June 23, 1691: Because of the scandal of rumouring that the late minister of this parish is not...

Time of Leaders, Part 10 of 11

Jade told me to ask if Deb knew that she’d already read the adolescent epic. Deb answered: ‘Of course’ , the way Deb does. Deb had been apologizing...
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Time of Leaders, Part 9 of 11

Around that time I told the computer about something that had been nagging at me. I’d been beginning to realize that all of these articles were less...

Mementos

I've rifled through all of it - I promise you, time and again. Packages placed all precariously up, Lying this way and that way in *Every* corner of...

Chatoyant Of Seraglio

Chatoyant Of Seraglio She shed her clothes; fur and silk first; Petrichor lingering in her hair Seraglio was the holy-grail For most women of the...
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Boldly a Woman

Poem in honour of International Women's Day - today. In memory of Bee who was the epitome of this poem and my inspiration.

International Women's Day

International Women’s Day is today. It is a fitting celebration for the most important person in most of our lives. Wife, mother, aunt, sister,...

'THE ROOM!' Chapter 1

please dont be a Grammer NAZI im only writing this for fun as i have mentioned Set in a sealed off city of Kawashima (about 200 miles east of Japan's Coast). A story of two boys Nicholas Edward Dean (or N.E.D for short) and Chris Chambers (Nicknames Vary) on an adventure to kill monsters and set the city free from the Gov't and it's Police Unit 'HIM' (Hunters Make Monters.....Yea i know it doesnt match but its funny sooo shhhh).......and not get captured and sent to THE ROOM! (details for THE ROOM!...TBA)

The Occultist

I was 19. So were you. The Folks warned me against You. Your strange Creed. Your love of amulets. Still we shared a cigarette On a moonless night On...

Dear Friend

Fond memories of an old friend. An old forgotten poem. I is a Cider Drinker down yer in Zummerzet, living in the West Cuntree do wish 'ee' all the...

LONDON

LONDON NOVEMBER SKY! WE ARRIVED ON YOUR SHORES. I KNEW I WAS HOME. THIS WAS HOME. I DREAMT OF IT ONCE, YOU UNDERSTAND. OR WAS IT TWICE? THRICE? I WAS...

Such a girl

Never have I known, or will know again a more beautiful soul. Her love and devotion unrivalled and pure. Not knowing the limit of her life was the...

The Boy's Companions - Prologue

Atop a hill sat a kingdom which had long distanced itself from any neighboring lands. It required no trade or assistance of any kind. This seemingly...
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Boxes

There are two boxes in my attic. It is so gloomy I can’t make out where the walls are, but the space around me speaks of vastness; my footsteps echo...

Alan Johnson’s Enormous Penis

You find all sorts in the trenches. The other day I shared a billet with the Duke of Richmond’s pastry chef. Geff Torrence is a flag designer, Angel...

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