Local Colour

A mealy mouthed bird With hair so absurd I thought she was a he cross dressed Throws words like punches In garbled bunches She has so much to get off her chest Across the wide bar
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november 23rd

When there is a nuclear accident, far away the first sign is mutation.
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Dans nos obscurités

Blue night party, sloped into gardens small groups gathered under flares; glasses clinked, voices hushed down. I moved along paths shiny with stones - pocked stars, barn owl white.
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The Angel of Mons - Chapter fifteen

Fifteen
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Blood on my hands

New Writing Season Competition - Prose
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Cut out my heart

New Writing Season Competition - Poetry
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Tranquillized

Highly commended in the poetry section of the New Writing competition.
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Undressed

My ex wife sitting naked on the bare stone floor, smoking my cigarettes, listening to the songs of Leonard Cohen. It’s the coolest thing that I’ve ever seen. There has been no sex.

In Nativitate Domini

In a silence so deep it were As though a thousand, thousand angels
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Magic Kingdom

Ned Vasey walked into Disneyland with a Yellow-Billed Hornbill in a cardboard box that read tinsel and lights.

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