Picks of the Month
July
The things we do for love
“So, if I hear one more time that you have comments on Alexia's piano playing, I will be on your doorstep again. Do you understand? But then it will...
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- 1753 reads
June
Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent
A bit of a rant. The odd bit of totally unnecessary foul language. The views expressed are strictly the author's own.
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- 7427 reads
parched
parched nine years since waking in cold piss often mine sometimes others nine years since smashing up my face falling over falling down falling for...
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- 3036 reads
May
"Book of All Answers"
The title of the book on the shelf was ‘Book of All Answers’ and Amy laughed when she spied it. “If only it were." She dusted the book along with its...
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- 5621 reads
Dusk
The girl with the softest edges Who summons the stars And the scent of the rose Who unburdens the sun, scattering its fiery embers Her name is Dusk...
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- 5675 reads
April
March
stars over kennet
stars over kennet star lit stones wrap around me and i am held rapt for a pitch-black procession the memory of daylight sleeping beneath frosted ice...
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Windfall.
We had a great interest in ghosts, prompted by a fear of being called a shitebag for turning down a dare when we were younger. In a less than spooky...
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- 4306 reads
February
Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024
Leaving the road for the slick, clay-swallowed gravel of the footpath, newly scalped of its sodden, rot smelling dark brown felt of last year's...
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An Octopus Picks Litter at the End of the World
A serrated bottle cap. A triangle of green glass. These are unusual shells: strange, immortal tools that she collects during a morning’s foraging...
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