Picks of the Month
January
Rise and Fall of the One-Man Empire
I unsolved a few mysteries (a good night’s work) then strutted the morning streets with a candle in my head, half-believing that everyone was...
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- 169 reads
Skull
John was glad he hadn’t stopped drinking, because otherwise it would have been a shame to waste the half-can of Pale Ale he poured on his Cornflakes...
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- 524 reads
December
Words
All I want for Christmas is words. Just a scatter of words. Just a handful. I find my eyes drawn back towards the phone on the wall in the hallway –...
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- 374 reads
Spring a Butterfly
Dusty cocoon of box tight packed through warmer days deep green wire limbed larvi unbends into branches of frizzy plastic tree tall, when you both...
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- 646 reads
November
Magpies
Walking in the dead grey November days, just slits Open wide enough to see Magpies gather in a tree ‘You’re alive,’ they rasp I check myself; a...
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- 964 reads
Mr Russ.
I don’t have any War Medals from relatives. Dad did National Service in 1950, but was too young to serve in WW2. My Granddads were too young for WW1...
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- 993 reads
October
Of one thing we can be certain
Plastinates We have become something else Like the weird sisters’ old riddle - Lesser than ourselves and greater. We are chemicals and frozen bones,...
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- 1166 reads
Aura (1)
Image attribution: Wikimedia Commons Author: Blanford, William Thomas, 1888 License: CC BY-SA 3.0
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- 731 reads
September
At sea with you
I want it to happen again I want to wade right out Into the middle of your life No raft, no float, no arm bands
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- 522 reads
Again
So, here I am. Standing in this familiar hallway with a suitcase in each hand, wondering if I should be here at all. Turn around and leave again? I...
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- 364 reads