For the past three days I have been editing the final chapter of ‘The Penguin Variations’. So I am finishing it as the year ends. It’s been a good year.
I was at friend’s house the other day and he informed me that some of his friends had recently purchased themselves an oil-less deep fat fryer for Christmas.
You could have him going around the whole town then you'd have a novel right there - like that book of micro stories of every passenger on a tube train.
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The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...
Me too, the surprising things
Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2020
Me too, the surprising things, sex in the library, and the bicycle stuff.
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I loved the doctor image to.
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2020
I loved the doctor image too. For the record.
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Mouse trap and Hardy Boys
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2020
Mouse trap and Hardy Boys book. Loved them both.
You could have him going around the whole town then you'd have a novel right there - like that book of micro stories of every passenger on a tube train.
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I enjoyed reading this too
Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020
I enjoyed reading this too this morning.
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This beautiful story of
Posted on Sat, 11 Apr 2020
This beautiful story of finding common ground between species / beings is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day! Please do share/retweet if you enjoy it too.
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Agreed. A ray of hope.
Posted on Wed, 08 Apr 2020
Agreed. A ray of hope.
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Glisk and glassiness work so
Posted on Mon, 06 Apr 2020
Glisk and glassiness work so well together.
As Thom Gunn said, One is always nearer by not keeping still.
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Love it. Congratulations.
Posted on Sun, 22 Mar 2020
Love it. Congratulations.
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The poem is sentimental in
Posted on Thu, 02 Apr 2020
The poem is sentimental in the best possible way. I love the move from whale to herring (and its sorrow) to us. It is comparable to Philip Pullman's way of describing death. We become dust, part of the atmosphere. Or here, of the sea. Wonderful...
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Another really brilliant
Posted on Mon, 30 Mar 2020
Another really brilliant first line - so unusual an image. And your poem fits perfectly with the picture.
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