2006: The Eighties Future
By Brooklands
New writing from 2006, the year that was supposed to be the future when I was eight. Just the look of it - 2006 - makes me think of jet packs and food in pill form.
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The Glass Collector
She goes to bum-to-crotch with her shift manager. The bar is so narrow that the difference between assault and gallantry is a question of pressure.
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Anemones are coy
The night after I had been dreaming of tropical fish in eighties corporate fishtanks, I woke up with my skull as tight as a buoy. I spent the day bobbing between bed and toilet bowl, throwing up with tidal regularity.
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Aurora Borealis, explained
Because of gravity’s appetite for physical affection and because solar wind is incomprehensible to the human mind and because each time a particle dies
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Conk
I had a friend called Dan who asked me to punch him in the face.
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Gland II. London
the sound of a parotid gland rupturing is somewhere between the sound of a chef tenderising a fillet steak and the noise a balloon makes when you let the air out.
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Gland III. West Wales
Science cannot explain why and, in truth, science is not particularly interested.
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