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Clair & John Wedding

Clair & John Back in 77’ when I was eleven, and we all had long hair and flares and the Queen had just had a big party to celebrate 25 years. A...

A dedication to Brenda

Brenda Her roots began in Scotland… In a different century, They had a castle and a clan… the local gentry! But she was born in Walkley… in the...

Sleeping Beauty

When I was young I had a twin that did all the naughty stuff. She looked and sounded just like me but she was mad and bad, a beautiful, mystical...
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Fourteen

Just keep sucking on that cigarette and dumb yourself down with that slow lispy voice. Give your black liner one final check and curl your lip in a...
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That Elusive Cure 23

The hangover was catching up on me. I needed my session in the machine. How long before that git of a man managed to fix the damage he’d done – would...

Happy birthday to me

Happy birthday to me I’m only twenty three Well at least I am inside my head But my body thinks I’m nearly dead I have an ache in my back And a pain...

Militant

You were the world., once, my little exhaustive flame. intangible, ever living. You burn into a smothering space, wax-ridden, glazed. there will be...

Lover Thine

What was, "home"? I named this once placid haze, after someone else. speechless with envy- We loved, in untempered ferocity and I've gone, and loved...

Predestination

In the silence we seek, one often finds a small hum that keeps harmony buried deep within the soul and comforts us, enlightens us and prepares us for...

BLACK FLOWERS

the sun just seems too hot sometimes the day, so very long i crave the rising of the moon whose rays are not as strong . dispersing jagged shards of...

Slayer - Finale

Metal has a sound that sings shrilly through the nights and days. To my ears it is the most harmonious thing I ever heard.
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When I Was Very Small

We stood in the cleft of the hill... straining our eyes watching Orion ride
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The Mind Matters

"At the end of the day it may well have all come down to which gave out first - my body or my resolve." What follows is a fictionlised account of real events, part autobiographical, part biographical, and part Dickens documentary.
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Broken cobwebs

Broken cobwebs - an honest snapshot of one man's life
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Jed's in LA

"Stick it on the company credit card" Jed says, laughing. His cleaner is making him a sandwich while he’s on his lilo, Skyping. He’s talking to his...

Charmed

It was the most critical exam of my life. My future was firmly hinged on the exam. I started writing on the stroke of the bell, without wasting even...
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Baildon Moor - Chapter 10

Chapter 10 Baildon Moor, October 1993 The drive to Buttershaw and back took nearly an hour despite the Sunday traffic – guilt made me drive under the...

Notes On A Lunch Break

Outside smells of rain and coffee. The man in front of me wears a grey suit, smokes his cigarette passing as he does, the saxophonist playing in...

That Elusive Cure 22

I pulled into the tiny church car park, blocking Jimmy’s car in. Leaping out I bolted for the church, hoping he hadn’t locked the door, unsure of how...

Flirting with girl met at a party last night

You ask what I would do? I would come around to your house with a picnic, a bottle of wine and dressed nice. Shame I forgot one thing though - that...
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