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Lodestone
“Woke Up This Morning” All sparse littered landmarks gone. All sparse littered landmarks grown. Trudging among missing standing stones. Trudging...
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sense and insensibility
‘It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.’ Pride and Prejudice. Could she...
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free rites
You’ve come a long way From nits in your hair Suit yourself Tears of anger and shame When you went hame Mum would say ‘The world’s just that way’ It’...
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the honourable member for Witney
Best thinking comes from not thinking The proud voice is the loud voice Pontification of what need to be done The great nob-game of bob-a-job To keep...
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poet on the rack
Philosophers and poets discuss how it is to be More tree than tree Point of view fucks off to Timbuktu Imagination pickled on a straight line In...
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Vietnamese with a waiting [t
Posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015
Vietnamese with a waiting [t]Taxi driver
he [w]Winced.
characterisation and descriptive prose are great.
Read full commentPosted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).
the world is a friendlier
Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015
the world is a friendlier place when we smile.
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in case they hurt themselves,
Posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2015
in case they hurt themselves, you see, I see clearly, but what can you do when there's only me and you?
Read full commentPosted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid
good ending in a sickish sort
Posted on Wed, 25 Nov 2015
good ending in a sickish sort of way, sums the story up well. I can't say I've noticed anything like that in my local forays through the park, but I guess as it's always pissing down that helps dampen people's rogering forays.
Read full commentPosted in the shared park
I didn't think he was very
Posted on Sat, 21 Nov 2015
I didn't think he was very funny. I'll rephrase that, he wasn't funny, but I didn't think you got jailed for it. That worries me. I'm packing my cardigans into a bag now. Ready to flee to England where there's a lot of funny folk. Just another...
Read full commentPosted in Plot without a story
the mastery of time seems to
Posted on Sat, 14 Nov 2015
the mastery of time seems to be your line. I guess Switzerland isn't much of a date, especially if you've left life too late, but what wonderful recall, it's a lesson to us all.
Read full commentPosted in 'Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World'
time spins and
Posted on Wed, 11 Nov 2015
time spins and circumnavigates and I guess we place our bet of whose to blame on the table, never thinking our number will come up.
Read full commentPosted in oot ma heed.
panic indeed. simple sentence
Posted on Tue, 10 Nov 2015
panic indeed. simple sentence are good, but look for a bit more variety.
Read full commentPosted in Panic Room
check on your Mum as a name
Posted on Mon, 02 Nov 2015
check on your Mum as a name and as a description (eg my mum). I'm not sure how jaggy stones catch elbows (too high up the body) in opening paragraph. That apart. The tone is just right. Possible story of the week. Gets my vote.
Read full commentPosted in Fly like Superman
ouch, sock on the wrong
Posted on Sun, 25 Oct 2015
ouch, sock on the wrong appendage, the wrong foot that's not a foot. As all good stories it starts as one think (alternative therapy) and melds into something deeper, lighter and heavier.
Read full commentPosted in White Light
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