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Most folk called her Pet
Pet held up and out a bent strip of cardboard, which was difficult to read in the rain, ‘London,’ block capitals, in blue marker pen. The sign...
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Le Cock: My Struggle.
I’m reading ‘The International Literary Phenomenon’, Some Rain Must Fall: My Struggle, Book 5 , by Karl Ove Knausgaard. Cliché after cliché so it...
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ghosts not spirits
The pale green Audi with a ladder strapped to the roof jerks to a stop in the angled strip of road before the bus stop and the Irish Pope bursts into...
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the gothic line
Dinner begins with a closed door Smell of mince and totties Worse than the dentist’s chair Shut-up and sit over there Plate piled high as a rabbit...
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shitehouse to shitehawk: a user's guide
I jot things down. Sometimes I order them later, or they order me. Usually, I don’t. That’s called the first draft. It’s full of grammatical mistakes...
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not sure I understand it, but
Posted on Mon, 10 Aug 2020
not sure I understand it, but hey, it feels right.
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sad words Jenny, but there's
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
sad words Jenny, but there's love there and that's always good.
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I hope its memory foam and
Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2020
I hope its memory foam and remembers not to confuse your head with your feet. Hope you feel better soonish.
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The horse slowed and, at
Posted on Thu, 23 Jul 2020
The horse slowed and, at times, stopped responding to prompts.[makes horses sound like computers] stopped responded to kicks, or spurs clawing at their frozen flanks - yeh, I got carred away.
Wind blew mini-murmurations of yellow leaves...
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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.
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‘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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