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a dowry
Memories inside the track Train filled with cinders Empty carriages Tossing and turning time The coal of life burning Firebox of hushed silences And...
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flockers 12
Went to see Myra the next day. Wasn’t sure if it was the right thing to do. Wasn’t sure she’d want to see me. Whenever I appeared things got worse...
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mystic mike
I will punish myself with myself drift on –alone putty around the edges stylites from the nineties council house and dog man without a job ascetic...
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flockers 11
Swirled whisky around my tongue. Listened to the shrill see-saw cadence and frenzied excitement in his voice and the little gulps of silence. Poured...
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flockers 10
Must admit the journey home was constrained, especially on the train. Didn’t see much of Myra in the next few weeks. Neither of us had a phone. Put...
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good story, flows well, ends
Posted on Fri, 28 Nov 2014
good story, flows well, ends well -well for some!
Read full commentPosted in Kevin Smiled
well written, I was wondering
Posted on Thu, 27 Nov 2014
well written, I was wondering how she could have an organism when dead (which is a physiological impossibility) then she came 'alive' again in the bathtub. Interesting.
Read full commentPosted in The (Nec)Romancer Part 1
yep. gritty and groan filled
Posted on Thu, 13 Nov 2014
yep. gritty and groan filled and full of dis-ease, but truth often hurts.
Read full commentPosted in not quite AA, but only 12 steps to the bar
nice and slow piece here we
Posted on Mon, 10 Nov 2014
nice and slow piece here we go.
Read full commentPosted in California sunshine and motorcycles
cheers scratch, just playing
Posted on Fri, 07 Nov 2014
cheers scratch, just playing with words. Thanks Shannan, I wish I knew what it meant too. Often (more often than I'd like to admit) I've not got a clue whant a poem is and more often than that what it all means. I'm pretty good at deciphering...
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fall in love ju[s]t by its
Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2014
fall in love ju[s]t by its words' I often wonder what poety is (and is not).
Read full commentPosted in A Poets Mystery Lane
Home from school for the
Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2014
Home from school for the Summer, I had been enjoying a leisurely reintroduction to home, taking my dog Barney out for walks [Back from school > that way you don't use home twice in the same sentence]
from los parentes [should this be...
Read full commentPosted in A Wake for Barney
cast (not callously caste)
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
cast (not callously caste) although caste is perhaps nearer the mark. I'm sure everything will turn out wonderfully well when your shoplifting skills get better. I thought paracetamol screwed up your liver (not your kidneys) and was usually fatal...
Read full commentPosted in The Diary of an Aspiring Hitman - Chapter 2
good twist and it does seem
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
good twist and it does seem to match fairy lore, perhaps the last paragraph is unnecessary?
Read full commentPosted in Wind Dancer
Nature is as precise an
Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2014
Nature is as precise an accountant as any. [delete last two words]
Wonderful story and the telling it of it wasn't bad either, spicy and full of sausage (oh dear, couldn't help that pun).
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