Picks of the Month
November
Three sips of foaming wine.
Yesterday came to an end. The cold, winter sun slithered quietly into the ocean and day turned into night while I took one sip of remarkable wine...
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- 1080 reads
Afterwards
We wind the clocks of our lives without ever once knowing the time, ignoring our ever slowing pulse with little regard for what is to come. But what...
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- 1334 reads
October
Early Lateness
If I could turn back time, I’d write a song about it.
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- 2625 reads
Please Follow My Instructions ( For This You Will Need a Blood Orange)
i) There is a blood orange on the table but it is not for eating. Citrus sinensis. Blood oranges are the result of a spontaneous genetic mutation...
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- 1954 reads
September
Safe Home
Safe Home I’ll protect you from the hooded claw Keep the vampires from your door. When the chips are down I’ll be around with my undying Death-...
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- 2585 reads
Welsh Lessons-1
WELSH LESSONS April 1975, on the waste ground where the old abattoir used to be “S’mae?” “Sorry, don’t speak Welsh.” “Just means ‘How’s things? We...
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- 843 reads
August
last orders at 'the weekend dad'
last orders at ‘the weekend dad’ she’ll be home now the back bedroom with the coloured lights you put up as you sit uncleared screwed up serviettes...
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- 1522 reads
The secret life of Pizzly Bears
It shouldn't be allowed. It can't be permitted. It should never happen. And if anyone had told him, he wouldn't have believed it. If he had read it...
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- 1068 reads
July
The Watchers In The Walls
It was better in the fort. Tucked between the couch and the wall. Made of three blankets, two couch cushions, and a big cardboard box from Mom’s new...
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- 4416 reads
June
The Vale - Part One (b)
It’s always the same at this time, late afternoon, early evening. The dropping sun, the hunched commuters scurrying home to the safety of their...
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- 3327 reads