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hard and fast and shiny

By Di_Hard on Mon, 07 Jan 2019

we make our faces look plastic like dolls we had as children, un aging if we can afford to pay in plastic. Package fruit so it won't go black as air...

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lost in space

By Di_Hard on Sat, 05 Jan 2019

in a bowl of hills beside the sea air is ice cream red orange green lights tutti frutti the ferry's fog horn a spoon full of stillness

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Spring a Butterfly

By Di_Hard on Sun, 23 Dec 2018

Dusty cocoon of box tight packed through warmer days deep green wire limbed larvi unbends into branches of frizzy plastic tree tall, when you both...

not ready to fly yet

By Di_Hard on Thu, 08 Nov 2018

cat on the bed looks up as I go in he lies on the floor curled as if fallen like a leaf still in school uniform the chrysalis of his face asleep next...

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This really does have the

Posted on Thu, 10 Jul 2025

This really does have the sense of being in a dream, everything too sudden and total. Will try to remember to face tigers. I liked very much the stripes, of light and shadow, of forgotten and unforgotten, of waking and unwaking. "primal fears and...

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Have just heard on the news

Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025

A few days after you posted this, have just heard on the news about mothers, pregnant women and children queueing for supplements to help with the malnutrition caused by Netanyahu's blockade. Bombed. One of the 8 children killed is a little one...

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Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah

Posted on Wed, 09 Jul 2025

Brilliant :0) Glad Farzanah was ok, hope she is, still. If I were a high up in her country, would be working my socks off to get a bomb finished before that happened again. Hope Sofi's back is better by now, and that hasn't put her off hydrangeas...

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From fireflies to fig sap,

Posted on Tue, 08 Jul 2025

From fireflies to fig sap, imagining Marlene Dietrich in a bus shelter to beating Lyme's disease, Turlough's diary entry for June is a great read, which is why it is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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This part struck me most

Posted on Mon, 07 Jul 2025

This part struck me most strongly, as not talked about on the news etc
"Yes, mothers often pay the price
with holy wartime sacrifice:
in flight, miscarried embryos!
Quite slow as ethnic cleansing goes,
but...

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Enjoyed very much, too. How

Posted on Sun, 06 Jul 2025

Enjoyed very much, too. How lovely for you to see what your cat got up to :0) Thank you for sharing your memory

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Such a sense of being an

Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

Such a sense of being an imposter. I guess Fox is a part of the narrator, as opposed to everyone else who belongs to a strange world. How you have office politics, and what's for tea, mixed in with memories of another planet is really good.

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Wonderful IP response, thank

Posted on Sat, 05 Jul 2025

Wonderful IP response, thank you!

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This completely wonderful,

Posted on Fri, 04 Jul 2025

This completely wonderful, incandescently genius story from Drew is Pick of the Day! Please do share if you can

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Your mother is so brave, for

Posted on Thu, 03 Jul 2025

Your mother is so brave, for having done as he asked, as he needed. Imagine, had he died, and she had not lain in the grass with him, she would have felt it must be her fault. But she could not have any blame for giving him a moment of peace. She...