Picks of the Month
January
Traffic
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How many new cousins have you got? Four. Three with scars and sallow eyes. How many new sisters today? Dad's brought six. Four speak French and...
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December
The agony and the ecstacy
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Back in the early nineties when ecstasy really was ecstasy not that tepid shit that they sell to the kids these days I smuggled a couple of tabs into...
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Home, with family, with scars.
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IP: All I want for Christmas
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November
At the Arts Council in Manchester
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And to think I was just about to complain About the weakness of the coffee when my head turned through the glass to witness the hearse arguing in...
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Poppy
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It’s my birthday today. I’m eight years old. My name is Poppy Rogers. I was born at twenty past nine in the morning on November the 11 th . Mum says...
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October
The Blue Books Restored: Fragments 1A to 70 (part 4 of 4)
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Diane cast her spell, like casting a boulder in a pool of Reality and causing it to ripple. The force of her will made manifest.
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Liam Anders
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He got up before dawn. Each day. Crawled out of bed to the stinging sound of an alarm going off beside his bed. Woke himself with stabbing cold water...
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September
relapse prevention therapy
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When I was five I was raped. He said it was a game. It wouldn’t hurt. These are clichés. I sometimes tell my students that fiction often isn’t...
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Soul Boy
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I am fifteen years old, a wedge haircut before Brideshead, a forever flicked fringe, soul blue eyes. It’s 1979, my last summer has gone. I am the...
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August
Submerged
The telly is not working so I forced myself to write a poem.
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