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A statue of you
A statue bright as a new grave Thick and unquick stone The best laid to rest Glory, glory, glory! Gene ology drowned in unbright light Framed in a...
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what comes after Christmas 3
The basement smelt damp and faintly of pee. A knot grew in Carl’s gut. He hurried with Naama in his arm. He was a wee man and she was no weight at...
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what comes after Christmas 2
Carl grew so weary sitting beside her bed his shoulders were mudflats. It seemed so long ago. He couldn’t remember how it came to this. The world...
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Pick Up
Almost home. Angel hurried up in the hill at Byron Street, pulling her coat tighter around her flowery Boots' blouse, the high winds catching in her...
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what comes after Christmas.
Carl sucked on his teeth but didn’t say anything when the camper van parked in their street. The neighbours would squabble about it soon enough...
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I'd guess lots of 5-year olds
Posted on Fri, 24 Apr 2026
I'd guess lots of 5-year olds couldn't tie their laces. I can't remember if I could.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 14 (iii)
I'm a fan Harry. You get it.
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
I'm a fan Harry. You get it. Whatever it was.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 14 (ii)
great stuff Harry. We dressed
Posted on Thu, 23 Apr 2026
great stuff Harry. We dressed much like you did to go to school Mum took us the first day. Then it was my sister (aged 7) who took me to school. Parents didn't come and get kids. No parked cars. No cars.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone 14 (i)
wow, sense of release. They
Posted on Tue, 21 Apr 2026
wow, sense of release. They made it. Bree made it.
Read full commentPosted in Ridgeline - Part Seventeen: Gray Light
an interesting turn of events
Posted on Wed, 22 Apr 2026
an interesting turn of events. Believeable. Somebody is always caught on the hop.
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (19)
absent gods, indeed, but
Posted on Mon, 20 Apr 2026
absent gods, indeed, but words fill the voids.
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ah, the mystery of big foot
Posted on Sun, 19 Apr 2026
ah, the mystery of big foot or small foot or no footage. Wonderful story telling.
Read full commentPosted in Ridgeline - Part Thirteen: From the Woods
wow, it's all comng together
Posted on Sat, 18 Apr 2026
wow, it's all comng together in shock and awe.
Read full commentPosted in Ridgeline - Part Twelve: The Light
endings or beginings or both.
Posted on Fri, 17 Apr 2026
endings or beginings or both. Sacrifice of the pure and innocent. Had me thinking of the Epstein grimoire.
Read full commentPosted in Prophesy: The Immortal Witch (18)
gloriously glorious and so
Posted on Tue, 14 Apr 2026
gloriously glorious and so real (as I remembered it back in the Stone Age, when I met Raquel Welsh).
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