Imagine how lucky you are
It's something i never saw this love, not in all the books, the music beats with it. The second chances we never knew, windows tight shut were the cause, where was the reason.
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- 535 reads
Pizza Question Mark
It was another early start. Bleary eyed and yawning we sat on the bus in our normal seat at the front. It was still cold at this time of the morning in New Zealand.
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- 506 reads
A Nuclear Family
There’s violence lurking in the breakfast things. Forced to feed in the company of strangers - no-one fits their mug-shots yet - sore bears kicked from slumber snarl
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- 995 reads
Slapstick
The men stood either side of each other, thick gloves clutching four corners of thin air. It seemed strange that nothing could be such a weighty matter,
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- 1088 reads
Reunion
And even now, after so many years, so many coats of institutional whitewash, the corridors still smell of rage. The last thing I remember; running like hell on the last day, trailing
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- 838 reads
The Fibber
He told me how he lay awake at night to catch shooting stars on his tongue, and washed by waiting till it rained. How once he’d taught a hen to tell the truth, then faked the eggs
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- 919 reads
The Boy Who Thought He Could
Mother licked and slicked his hair back, then in a voice that dripped sugar sent him out to pick blackberries, to get him out from under her feet. He skirted the cliff, his arms flapped
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In The Clouds
It is mid-afternoon, the time I set aside to write. Outside the winter dawdles, snow-packed clouds are holding back. It should be snowing. I should be writing. The pen hangs,
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Hello Sailor
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- 824 reads