Picks of the Month
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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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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- 1151 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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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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- 1277 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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- 5088 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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Fifty-One Empty Places at the Dinner Table
Who can sleep while the genocide goes on in Gaza? Certainly not me.
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- 8745 reads
May
Triumphant Folly In The Park
My Thoughts Dear diary... Embodiment of esteemed antiquity delivered through energetic spring; dappled light emerges in resolution where trembling...
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The Fish on the Hill
My April, the first of two parts, and restricted to 100 words per day so that I can’t be accused of banging on about it.
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April
I am the stillness
I am, not in the way fire roars, but in the hush between storms. I am the breath the forest holds before the wind remembers how to move. They rush,...
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- 4103 reads