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time travelling

By Di_Hard on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

at woods' edge shadow-silt nestles lumps of amber air floating ballrooms where midges dance brief lives away since before words on one side sun warm...

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first day in senior school

By Di_Hard on Fri, 18 Aug 2017

Rain heavy air, clear, fresh colours drenched. I walk through clinging grasses like hands welcoming. Summer condensing on twig ends in rowan berries...

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calm before

By Di_Hard on Thu, 03 Aug 2017

trunk tethered galaxies of leaves wild weaves, wind owned. Waist high, light grained grasses spray. Green-good air an open mouth, bird-fled, waits...

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a sort of green

By Di_Hard on Mon, 17 Jul 2017

in autumn small, three-toed green, lizard dry stampedes down the steps' side dark green cloaking concrete with rustling possibilities or, lushly...

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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...

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Recently I have been shaking

Posted on Wed, 02 Jul 2025

Recently I have been shaking so much, and don't know, wonder if it is thinking of this. It is the trappedness that makes it seem worse, being held prisoner till agreeing to give up what's yours, being encouraged to this end by starvation, no...