Picks of the Month
November
Extra Time
Death lingered in the hall, listening to the flux of the television through the wedged-open living room door. The football was on — thousands of...
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October
The Matrix Problem
One morning, I was woken early by a hammering on my back door. I quickly dressed and rushed downstairs, to find Alun in an excitable state. “What’s...
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Branwell Clinic
As I'm finding it difficult to write at the moment, I will continue to let my daughter Julia (Overthetop1) live on through her own writing, until I am ready. Coral Jane (seashore).
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- 3733 reads
September
trifecta
1. The last man I loved made me a dream catcher of dental floss and blonde hair. This is him, the last of him. We’re driving through a phlegmy drag...
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Lakehouse
The headings are a nod to Iris Murdoch's 'The Sea, The Sea', a wonderful book :)
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- 3449 reads
August
Sticks
'There was a grove, dark with holm-oaks, below the Aventine, at sight of which you would say: ‘There’s a god within'. The centre was grassy, and...
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July
Birthday phone call
‘Hello stranger’ dad says, his chuckle dry and good-natured, the laugh of an overgrown kid. I’m sitting on a bench along the Southbank with my back...
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Eriksay
I wished to write ‘An ode to you’ – no, too thoughtless too common those words never reached the screen and I wonder if they reached you as I tried...
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June
Letters to Herself
I woke up speaking in riddles, heart raging against a world shaking, changing, escaping my mother cried soft lullabies of light and mystery in a...
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April
Bee's Journey - (the last leg)
We take it for granted that to make a journey is to travel from A to B, but it's not always as simple as that. There are often so many stops and...
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