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Flanagan phoned – left a message
Flanagan phoned – left a message 'hope you’re well I’m down your way be nice to catch up I’ll bring some snaps of my latest artwork’ Flanagan had a...
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Swipe
Have you ever matched with someone on Tinder and it turns out to be the super-hot dad of one of the children in your class? And on parents evening he...
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Arming Astana
eleven plus two is twelve plus one
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bird feeder
Slog uphill, from Bargain Buys trolley-tugging a big bag, heart heavy with world's worries hard to change till become aware of pigeons, jackdaws,...
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11 PLUS
‘Good luck Nigel. You won’t need it mind, you’re a bright lad. Go and show em what you’re made of.’ ‘Okay mum.’ Nigel Wheeler took his seat next to...
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Nightmare In Trafalgar Square
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There was noise below. Thousands of people milled in the Square below. That was not entirely abnormal, in his occasional wakeful periods, when the...
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Gemma Part I
Mitch 12 November 1996 10.58 p.m. The streets seem slick with grease tonight. Murky rainbows ripple in every pothole, their dirty sheen illuminated...
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Process
Sad. Ecstatically so sometimes a relief familiar sting me so I know I can feel something borrowed from an old feeling blue and black and beaten back...
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Familiarity
Familiarity clings Breath forms droplets in the ether Specks of dust skin hair dirt grimy flakes of human indulgence encapsulated in a bubble of...
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A Woman of the Swamp - 3
Previous Chapter 3. Flight of the Necromancer It wasn’t Marie’s first time fleeing from the authorities. Even if she hadn’t been guilty of breaking...
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Caught in the Act
A nursery tale for our time.
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The seasons' round
Autumn leaves are falling down falling down, falling down …
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Manatee
I so much want to know how soft your skin. Run fingers over sparce hairs wondering how you perceive my presence. If I am friend or I am foe. You will...
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I looked up
I looked up office workers, wives and mothers, oven-ready students, white van drivers, the out of work, and labourers, shuffle mesmerised, eyes down...
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Anyway
Anyway, what's occupying my mind today is that I need to buy some H2O E3 cleaner to spray into my half full kitchen bin, I fear, if I don't people...
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White Coats
I entered the asylum at quarter past four, The face of depression had wrapped on my door. Met with a face who repeated a name, Over and over waving...
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Don’t Forget
Don’t forget She’s just a girl Beneath the woman facade Behind the things she says To deflect you from noticing She is frightened and unsure Those...
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Hot
You are the sun and moon the idle in my heart. With one smile I can conquer my fears or do a somersault- in my dreams (of course).
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WHAT HOPE FOR HUMANITY?
The LIONS have a protocol they select a King. Humans though have no design by and large they're sinking. Europe is an expensive farce. They've tied...
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The Greatest Feast Day of them All
‘And he’s going to have his first Christmas. I don’t know if I should get him something, or something by proxy for James and Marie, since Adam might...
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