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standing outside the window.
Book of Job 17: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, I miss me. even the thoughts of my heart. The way I used to be. They change the night...
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Naming Tree
To know is to name To name is to grow To remember and show To change what we know To connect what we cannot see To create history and language and...
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Rust and Dust 4
The Tink stamped his feet against the cold. Lit a Woodbine. A packet of five from his jacket pocket. Smoked the edge off the day and blew it between...
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Rust and Dust 3
The Tink fell into step beside her. Something in her stirred and unsettled him. And it wasn’t just her beauty or her overpowering perfume. He’d...
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Rust and Dust 2
‘There’s a strange smell in here.’ She paused in the doorway as if to gather it up and make certain. She was small but had that wide-eyed presence...
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wonderful storytelling.
Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024
wonderful storytelling.
Read full commentPosted in Tom All Alone (2)
red, red, and read. There
Posted on Sun, 01 Sep 2024
red, red, and read. There should be rage, but it is hidden in pop-up stories.
Read full commentPosted in They Were Only Children
I did have a fight with Marti
Posted on Thu, 15 Aug 2024
I did have a fight with Marti Pellow's brother, we called him Kojak, after he tried to lift a few can from our carry out. Love was all arounds us. So the feeling grows.
Read full commentPosted in Benches & Hedges
doubt unravels us, but
Posted on Tue, 23 Apr 2024
doubt unravels us, but sometimes that can be a good thing. the greatest lie may be the one we tell ourselves.
Read full commentPosted in Doubt
Yes, she really was saintly
Posted on Thu, 21 Mar 2024
Yes, she really was saintly and human too.
Read full commentPosted in Remembering Corrie ten Boom
the moron's moron is German,
Posted on Tue, 19 Mar 2024
the moron's moron is German, obviously. His mother was a wee Free. Obviously too free to have a narcisstic psychopath rapist embezzeler (I might have missed a few, add your own) for a son. We don't count population that way. We include midges,...
Read full commentPosted in Too Many Tabs Open
I suppose we all end up with
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I suppose we all end up with a woman (or man) we've only know a short while. I guess we'll fall back on they were a different generation. We're a different generation too. Perhaps if we write it down that'll help?
Read full commentPosted in Muscle memory
I shaved my dad before he
Posted on Mon, 26 Feb 2024
I shaved my dad before he died. Lived with him and worked with him. Never knew him. The strange thing is my sisters say I'm the dead spit of him. hmmmm.
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The next BBC Open Call
Posted on Tue, 31 Oct 2023
The next BBC Open Call submission window will be open between 12 noon on Tuesday 7th November 2023 and 12 noon on Tuesday 5th December 2023.
Read full commentPosted in Parcel for you....Part 6
ah words sometimes fall short
Posted on Sat, 21 Oct 2023
ah words sometimes fall short, but you have risen to the challenge of raising the dead to something like remembrance.
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