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You Can't Take Away a Nation.
You can’t take away how we grow. But that is how it seems. What the fuck do you know? Cameron, Clegg, Miliband, cui bono ? Bollinger babblers and...
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Muddler
A puddle for a head. Do the maths. I’m in decline. But I feel fine. I’m human. That’s my failing. A life past caring. I’m glitter and glue. Tweaked...
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Hope Street
She loved that story of how they met. Telling it to her friend Julie on a rare night out made her smile and her voice shine. She is tender with...
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Lockhart 2
I wish things could have been different. The moon shimmered through the uncurtained windows giving a metallic glow to the room. I was splintered in...
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Lockhart
I’m looking back at notebooks we kept at Marxist school. It wasn’t called that of of course. It was a loose collective of forward looking people...
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plot against the crows, often
Posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2015
plot against the crows, often difficult but a lasting image.
Read full commentPosted in Earth Heart (3)
writers'faces. I was very sad
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2015
writers'faces. I was very sad to hear about Terence Oblongs death. We spent many a day on the mountain of Just Fucking Write and I must say he was an inspiration. I was a bit peeved however to find I'll be sharing the Valley of the Giant Stoats...
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I like these tales of Emer's
Posted on Sat, 10 Jan 2015
I like these tales of Emer's Ireland and Archie Given going taking his life.
Read full commentPosted in The Hill in the Pale
I read it in one gulp, but it
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
I read it in one gulp, but it went down smoothly. Lovely as a draught of a draught.
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surprise ending, but a
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
surprise ending, but a constant source of wonder.
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a well dramatised account of
Posted on Sat, 20 Dec 2014
a well dramatised account of something that should never have been.
Read full commentPosted in 25 Years After
the remarkable thing isn't
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2014
the remarkable thing isn't that some men break, it is that some don't, or at least not outwardly, as you have shown here. sea monsters come in many form, many fetishes and I think we are all reduced and reducable to bubbling children scared or...
Read full commentPosted in Sea Monster (part 2/2)
soaks up everything like a
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2014
soaks up everything like a sponge is cliched, Delete the sponge bit or use a butchery metaphor eg HIs brains soaks up things like a cow soaks up bovine spongifom encephalophy, which is more words, which defeats the purpose. Mad or what? I liked...
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Johnny carried [H]hector.
Posted on Sun, 07 Dec 2014
Johnny carried [H]hector. good fast beat to the action, but referring to them as man 2 and man 3 makes it seem more like a screenplay than a story. You could use shorthand like the fat man and the thinner man etc.
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brilliant. You and I are
Posted on Thu, 04 Dec 2014
brilliant. You and I are earth indeed.
Read full commentPosted in You and I are Earth
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