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Charlie the barman hovers around the five-foot mark and looks like King Louie from Junglebook , a comic figure, who knows everybody that is anybody,...
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grimms31
‘Shouldn’t you be going up the road, about now?’ says Jaz, smiling into his pint. ‘To get ready for your big date.’ Rab’s bottom lips droops and he...
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grimms30
Jaz catches Pizza Face a slap on the back of the head when he catches him and Tony smoking a roll-up at the bottom of the stairs. ‘Go up to Rab’s and...
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After a while Tony and Angela get sick of hiding from a giant dinosaur under the bed and crawl out dusty and uneaten, which is just as well, because...
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grimms28
When Dermot answers the door, he’s not sure what to expect. ‘I’m Marie,’ she says, holding a soft hand out for him to shake. ‘And I’m a social worker...
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luttered in soft symbiosis
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2020
luttered in soft symbiosis [sybiosis is the wrong word]
van outside to take her away (because she's a nut job) or something more? difficult balancing act, you've manage reality and unreality well. Keep movig.
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the intestines of novels are
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2020
the intestines of novels are always tricky, especially when you're eating and drinking and talking. Life can get messy. Words we can hide behind.
Read full commentPosted in Work Lunchbreak Flash, Alfresco at The Colonial Cafe
‘For Christ sake, the dog’s
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
‘For Christ sake, the dog’s giving birth on my bed. Don’t just stand there, bloody do something.’
A dog giving birth on a bed is a good opening, but to leave the voice unattributed, hanging, as the opening sentence is equivalent of opening...
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when you're doing something,
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
when you're doing something, you're doing something else. you're being someone (else).
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I guessed that Harrison would
Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020
I guessed that Harrison would become Grant. Good start to the body-swap story genre (if such a genre exists?)
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good story. I don't think you
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
good story. I don't think you need to reiterate about the cancer being in the middle of Jeff's stomach.
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yes - and moe. But we can but
Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2020
yes - and moe. But we can but try to define it.
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hail, spring indeed.
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
hail, spring indeed.
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for perhaps the first time,
Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020
for perhaps the first time, the younger generation can no longer expect to have a better life than their parents. That's the saddest part. As you mention, the rich had it easy. They still do. The poor had bleak and short lives, or so we would...
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there's hope for us all
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020
there's hope for us all -eventually.
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