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My shoes think they're anorexic So when my feet feel heavy I take them off Carry them up the stairs And let them watch the city I'll leave them there...

The TV is shit

We are ambulance chasing lawyers for you Have you had a prat fall at work or in the street? Well here is your chance to make big money for us. We are...

Devil Coming After

Started off with a bit of happiness later on it became depression of moments with a little suicide actions. Who ever thought a girl so laughable and...

WHEN THE MOON WAS KING

years ago, the earth, it seems revolved around the moon the earth would play the fiddle while the moon would call the tune . the moons had seas with...

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Story and Poem of the Month

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Peter Frankopan (2015) The Silk Roads. A New History of the World

I thought myself pretty smart, when I was wee, writing my name and street and town and county (Scotland) and Europe and World and Universe. I was, of course, centre of the Jack O’Donnellian world. Just imagine if you were American President? A narcissistic psychopath that couldn’t imagine he wasn’t the centre of the world. His blot on the map irreversible. We don’t need a Galileo to show the Trumpicentric view of the universe is as crazy as it...

Dead Letters: The Critic

Filed by Fletcher Moody — Literary Correspondent In the spring of 1936, I drove down to Pacific Grove, California, to interview a writer named John Steinbeck, who had published a novel called Tortilla Flat the year before and was beginning to be discussed in the kind of rooms where writers are discussed before they are read. I had written ahead. He had agreed, with the reluctance of a man who would rather be doing almost anything else, to give...

Helen Dunmore (1993) Zennor in Darkness

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zennor_in_Darkness Helen Dunmore (1993) Zennor in Darkness won the 1994 McKitterick Prize which is awarded for debut novels for writers over 40. Dunmore is a great example of why poets often make the best prose writers. Her protagonists are brought alive by her attention to detail. Big historical events such as the First World War in 1917 are being fought somewhere else but also in the heart. Dunmore captures girls...

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