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Bernie the bolt.
I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...
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organist and monkey
The organ, off-kilter as a bagpipe chord, begins the first hymn. Major keys and minor key dance around the usual dirge. Funeral music. The...
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Don't talk back
I slept through the Russian missile crisis when John F Kennedy called the Russian’s bluff and sent them homeward to think again. It was a simpler...
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I stole this poem from Vera
You cut a chrysalis just in case, kept the carapace on you. Tied a shoelace around the neck, the butterfly initials you never knew tattooed at the...
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Hardware Not Included
Clinically proven. I lived between rivers of drinking and islands of insanity. There were lots of reasons for it. But I bet you’ve heard them all...
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trays were our sleighs
Posted on Thu, 12 Oct 2017
trays were our sleighs
puss-in-boot style boots [too many boots. reword eg footware.
I'm not sure faces would be little, when you're little. Take out the uncertainties. eg, [perhaps with] a little ethnic design.
two-and-a-...
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the girls ruptured nose [girl
Posted on Sat, 30 Sep 2017
the girls ruptured nose [girl's]
her left leg juddered in a spasm, then with a slow exhale,
the pretty girl died. [formatting error here, but perhaps not in your text]
wonderful scene setting and writing.
Read full commentPosted in The girl with the Maroon lipstick (excerpt from Eagles Hunt Wolves)
stolent moments can be sweet.
Posted on Wed, 20 Sep 2017
stolent moments can be sweet.
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yep, often wonder how women
Posted on Sat, 16 Sep 2017
yep, often wonder how women walk on those heels. heads in the clouds
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yep, I guess so
Posted on Sat, 16 Sep 2017
yep, I guess so
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I'm not sure why you call it
Posted on Fri, 15 Sep 2017
I'm not sure why you call it document 1. I guess there'll be other documents. This has the makings of a good apocalyptic story (like the Road) but I feel there is too much explaining from the unseen narrator goiong on and the action is a...
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I'm surprised anybody that
Posted on Sun, 20 Aug 2017
I'm surprised anybody that isn't rich can live in London. Two-thirds of most poor folk's wages go on rent. How is that possible? Existence? Well, I guess your non-English dad and mum saw the reality of Primo Levi's If This is a Man, or indeed...
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a saw-toothed landscape yet
Posted on Sat, 19 Aug 2017
a saw-toothed landscape yet something slightly scary but a beauty shinies through.
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the seasons lead us and we
Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017
the seasons lead us and we follow on drfiting through time.
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yeh, kids stuff and their
Posted on Sat, 12 Aug 2017
yeh, kids stuff and their little ways.
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