Picks of the Month
February
Scout's Honour
It’s great in de summer as we can spend all dese long hours in Easy Weir’s looking at de videos – dat’s Dixon, McGurk, and meself. Easy’s dere behind...
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- 2374 reads
January
Not dark yet
Stories from the road
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- 28 comments
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- 3408 reads
December
woods, late
walk in the company of streams through chill evening, day's ash, grey shadows clot into understanding night a deer starts awake, hastens to hide life...
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- 2532 reads
MovieLand! (A Christmas Story. Part 1)
I was supposed to be the authority but it had to be said they were probably right, the duck did appear to be dying. It wasn’t a spectacular death,...
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- 2748 reads
November
Trees on the Arapuni Road
When they felled the high trees mother was delighted she lived in fear of their imminent collapse onto our matchbox house despite their wounds they...
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- 5905 reads
The Sleep Olympics
I was asleep when the Sleep Olympics started, meaning I missed out on all the dramatics of the Japanese contestant’s non-regulation pajama bottoms...
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- 1734 reads
October
Seven Nights in the Flamingo Hotel
At five o’clock in the morning you are woken by the sounds of the couple in the next room arguing and this surprises you because the previous night...
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- 2698 reads
Never trust a writer
Or even someone who just writes
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- 4235 reads
September
Talking to My Mother
Talking to my mother is easier now she is dead - she’d put me into orbit but I was more of a spin-off - not an asteroid or meteorite on a trajectory...
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- 3352 reads