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The bottle and spanner
I came into this world with a bottle in one hand and a spanner in the other, in my nappies I didn't know what I was in for. My dad explained the moon...
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Pictures of Home
It wasn't great art. In fact, even as a young child I thought it was kitschy. It hung over the piano in my grandmother's parlor, a little lugubrious...
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Break the Child: Chapter Thirty Five: Not that Kind of Family...2
Descriptions of domestic violence...
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Break The Child: Chapter Thirty Five: Not that Kind of Family...1
Chapter Thirty-Five: Not that Kind Of Family I’m supposed to be resting but I can’t sleep. The hospital’s too noisy and I hurt too much. Everything...
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Break the Chid: Chapter Thirty-Four: The Letter
Chapter Thirty-Four I can’t put it off any longer. I’m going to have to write about my special present from Mum, but it isn’t going to be easy. It’s...
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Make Sure All The Frogs Get Home
We used to go fishing fur mullet and pinkeens in de Castletown River. Dat’s all ye’d get in dere normally. But I never caught annyting ever cause I...
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Abstract Train Of Thought
A piece of abstract poetry. Give way – twist inquisitive curiosity, focus trance this altered matter, calming streaming tensions, free squinting eyes...
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Pad Life 11: I Can't Find anything Funny To Say About This
Sometimes the frivolity just runs out. Picture: Pixabay Creative Commons
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these mist-covered mountains
I can smell her. It's all over your clothes. I think it's the one I used to wear, the one you used to like before all this began. We sit there...
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More
I am a white, middle class man, I am embarrassed by how little I know. I can only begin to imagine, then realise that to sit and theorise about how...
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#BLM (2) ‘Freedom Ride to Ferguson’ August 2014
BLM’s ‘Freedom Ride to Ferguson’ August 2014 #BLM began as an electronic “love note to black people” (Garza) in response to the death of Trayvon...
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same
The same, the same, the same again. Washing machine makes the floor shake, kitchen surface trembles plates fall; break. Pull the brake, make the same...
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Winging It - Chapter 1 (Part 1)
Superheroes, college, and cheesecakes. Welcome to Atlas City.
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Break the Child: Chapter Thirty-Three: Whippersnapper
Chapter Thirty-Three: Whippersnapper Dad kissed me on the cheek and held me at arm’s length. My hair was wet, and my makeup had run and all the...
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Lockdown! Look up!
Time to stop , time to rest, recuperation and reflection, time to notice …
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In a World Gone Mad: Sunday 31...2 May 2020
The party turned into a farce. Carrie’s Turkish husband ranted on about all the problems in the world being the black’s fault. Annie was on Facetime...
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No-one
nothing to see here... Image : Bundesarchiv, Bild 102-13902 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
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In A World gone Mad: Sunday 31 May 2020
Sunday 31 May 2020 I feel fabulous. I was ill yesterday. I had this terrible, serious illness that felt so bad that it could be life threatening. The...
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Break The Child: chapter Thirty-Two: ...2 Trouble
‘No way. You are not getting me in one of those things.’ I was laughing but a bit scared at the same time. ‘Do you even know how to work one?’ ‘Yes,...
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Break the Child: chapter Thirty-Two; Trouble
Chapter Thirty-Two Trouble I took my presents upstairs; I wanted to keep them to myself for awhile before I had to show everybody. Aunty Helen poked...
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