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StoryInto the Woods (Hansel and Gretel) marandina123 years 8 months ago
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The man from Council. A wee nyaff, clipboard, pen and baldy heid. He’d come to see the wall in the back bedroom and there was no arguing with him. ‘...
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‘Fuck me like you hate me.’ He did. If you lived long enough, perhaps you’d have learned to kiss sweet as candyfloss, and kept a sensible distance...
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old stock

Some nights when Charlie can’t sleep the past will enter his heart, a skeletal broken thing looking for home and he’ll hear the truth of his youth...
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I long for her to be Upstairs tucked in like me But not me Anybody but— – to know I’m doing OK Not mad Just be glad – When you turn off your tv...
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Huts Xish

After work my luck doesn’t change. On my way home I slide on a wet standing stones in the burn, and batter my knee off a submerged rock. I juggle...

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1718 of my comments have received 1755 Great Feedback votes

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yes, hopefully it will always

Posted on Tue, 26 Jun 2018

yes, hopefully it will always be like this, or at least for a while.

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Posted in a break from hoovering

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watch out for cliches, like

Posted on Sun, 03 Jun 2018

watch out for cliches, like 'turned up trumps' (especially with the monstrosity of a Trump that trumps most cliches). wolf and stuck pig. rougher end. gotten so deep. phoney war. most trusted confidantes  

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Posted in Through War & Adversity - Chapter 3 - Part I

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I wanted to know more. Really

Posted on Thu, 26 Apr 2018

I wanted to know more. Really enjjoyed reading it. 

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Posted in Something Hard Inside Him (Part 2)

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slides from metaphor to

Posted on Thu, 12 Apr 2018

slides from metaphor to madness and evil with spring-heeled ease. 

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Posted in Big Cat

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yeh, captures that remebrance

Posted on Sat, 07 Apr 2018

yeh, captures that remebrance of things lost and people lost too in their own home and in their mind. 

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Posted in Visiting Mom

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amen to that and halleluiah

Posted on Sun, 01 Apr 2018

amen to that and halleluiah too because this is so true. 

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Posted in Alternative Prayer of Remembrance, Easter 2018

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you're mirroring Pirsig's

Posted on Sun, 25 Mar 2018

you're mirroring Pirsig's take in Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. 

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Posted in Mechanics & Artists

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wonderfully perceptive

Posted on Wed, 21 Feb 2018

wonderfully perceptive storytelling. Kayla Stella Nue rings true. 

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Posted in Jack Mutant - Which Way is Down? (part twelve)

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bambi, but how much more

Posted on Sun, 21 Jan 2018

bambi, but how much more harrowing is the hundreds of millions of chickens and cattle that never experience daylight, in which a pen is their sun. A story well done. 

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Posted in To Dance in the Shadows

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memory is a lullaby. 

Posted on Fri, 19 Jan 2018

memory is a lullaby. 

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Posted in Stars Still Shine Brightly

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