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In/Convenience

I didn’t expect to end my life sat on a toilet. As I drift in and out of consciousness I’m vaguely aware of Shaking Stevens’ Merry Christmas Everyone...
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Lost In Acton

I’m an old man now. I’ll be Eighty One in two weeks time. Still fit and healthy though. Walk to the shops everyday to get my shopping. Shoes polished...
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Paranoia

Monday 5th of December 2016, 9:12 pm. Dear Diary, today was just a current day, nothing much happened. Studying in the morning, working on the...
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Christmas Every Day

Following The Boy’s funeral I went to live with Mona for a week, so that she could “feed me up”. Apparently, after The Boy died, I’d completely...
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Her father was a thunderstorm

The years rained down on her like a child's spiteful playground punches. She was brutalised by the time in which she lived, a time, when those who...
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A gift at Christmas

Years ago, when Christmas was still Christmas and I was just a wee boy stuck in my room in the attic because of the asthma, and everything else that...
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Three moments

Twixt here and there
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Whiteout Rewrite (The Black Market)

9. The Black Market “This place is very dangerous,” said Nick to James, looking shiftily around the street corner they were on. They were waiting on...
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Senior Moments at Christmas Party

I belong to our local Senior Citizens Association. I joined in order to play in the scrabble group a few years ago, but also volunteered to set up a...
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Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens...

Leggings - The Barrack Street Boys – equivalent to the Cockney Kings & Queens... A local Norwich resident suggested to me that another faction is...
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Tears stream from Aleppo

Tears stream from Aleppo; blood sunken, shattered city; scarred and ruined, scattered lives while monolithic men, with stone hearts watch; unshaken...
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Grimms3

Pizza Face is smaller than me, but with a big square head, so we’re really the same size. We’re standing in the smirry rain with duffle coat hoods up...
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Belfast Boun (Poetry Monthly)

The bricks they may bleed and the rain it may weep And the damp Lagan fog lulls the city to sleep. It's to Hell with the future, we'll live in the past May the Lord in his mercy be kind to Belfast. Maurice James Craig
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Grimms2

Dad was better fun than an alarm clock. I used to watch him before I was old enough to get locked up in school. The light in my room was on the death...
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Winter child

Away from the leafed through house and far from the stale, bitumen thrum of traffic crush we curl back into the womb of the earth. Topping the brow...
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Cardamom Hills (extract)

I screamed in the night and there was no-one there to hear me. Upon returning to my native St Catherine's from such travels in Provence as can be...
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History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)

Janus recounts the publishing of his first history, about the ancient movement towards freedom and improved quality of life in the earlier history of Gallanol. He models many of his recommendations for the improvement of life in the grey work driven modern society of Marta and Gallanol on them.
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Have You Seen My Sister?

Have you seen my sister? My kin My skin and blister She lives inside a dream Between two scenes She is a drifter Her smile is just a wisp And her...
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Our House.

Every word is true... Our house had four rooms and a kitchen. Sounds grand doesn’t it. Except... You walked in off the street into our “Front Room”...

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