Picks of the Month
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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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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- 8926 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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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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- 2612 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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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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- 4667 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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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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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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