Picks of the Month
August
running in the rain
There is something compelling and slightly unsettling the way the rain strikes my face hits my cheeks and my lips. Droplets drum a delightful pattern...
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- 13086 reads
July
(I Don't Want to) Ride the Piss and Graffiti Train Anymore
Thinking on the train.
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- 7774 reads
June
The Sewing Machine
The Sewing Machine As a young man, I was fond of walking holidays and particularly liked the wilds of Scotland, covering vast distances by foot. They...
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- 8662 reads
May
A Room In Chungking
On the gritty wall askew in sultry disrepair, hangs Hokusai’s Great Wave. Almost a window once perhaps, this place has won it over. Below on crumpled...
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- 8415 reads
Gave it to the sea
The cut between these times was such that I thought it possible I was living in an afterlife. In louder places we sat in filthy messes, plates and...
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- 11625 reads
April
Another baby
The barmaid's waiting for a phone call. Her sister-in-law is in labour. She’s desperate for the phone to ring so she can hear from the corridors of...
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- 3599 reads
My Other Life is
My other life is a peach bare feet, warm sand clear running water mind, body, place sweet blossom contentment gold, green birdsong sunlight leaves...
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- 25342 reads
March
February
Ebb
A fairy story for grown ups.
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- 15975 reads
