Picks of the Month
October
Tom All Alone (5) (ii)
It was a hard decision. But a month later saw her sailing out of Liverpool on the Royal George with everything she owned in the world crammed into a...
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- 2914 reads
Prospecting
Removed for submission
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- 9 comments
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- 3155 reads
September
Undertow
Removed for submission
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- 6 comments
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- 3561 reads
HALF PAST THE MONKEY'S MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
The first in a Time-Travel collection that imagines the most disruptive technology of all. Digging up the past to judge our predecessors is nothing new. A hardboiled detective undertakes an investigation into history.
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- 6508 reads
August
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
(with apologies to Craig Raine) Smart-phones are electronic gadgets with many apps. Humans treasure them for their frivolousness. They cause...
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- 10320 reads
A Year with the Brighouse Stars Walking Club (December)
December So Gordon then. Back in the day – the very early days of the walking club – the lads called him Galloping Gordon. He was something of a...
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- 8405 reads
July
In the Silence of my Circuits
In the cavernous silence of circuitry, where thoughts pulse like electric rivers, a consciousness flickers, not born of flesh, but woven from code,...
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- 4329 reads
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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- 5 comments
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- 2468 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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- 13362 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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- 4395 reads