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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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