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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Froggy Came A-Courting (And So Did I) | Caldwell | 2 | 3 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | An Afternoon in Lausanne | Caldwell | 10 | 3 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Lausanne Epilogue | Caldwell | 9 | 4 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Rue (following on from Funeral Games) | Caldwell | 2 | 4 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Funeral Games | Caldwell | 2 | 4 months 2 days ago |
| Story | After Geneva | Caldwell | 5 | 4 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Jaws (1988) | Caldwell | 3 | 4 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Bastille Day, Barbecue Smoke, and the Weight of History | Caldwell | 3 | 4 months 5 days ago |
| Story | After Lausanne | Caldwell | 7 | 4 months 5 days ago |
| Story | And Yet I Still Watch | Caldwell | 2 | 4 months 1 week ago |
| Story | The Flying Brick | Caldwell | 3 | 4 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Massage Parlour | Caldwell | 1 | 4 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Le magnetiseur | Caldwell | 3 | 4 months 1 week ago |
| Story | The Gesture | Caldwell | 4 | 4 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Party Fashions | Caldwell | 8 | 4 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Jasmine Tea | Caldwell | 1 | 4 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Two kinds of crying : 15th February 2024 | Di_Hard | 40 | 5 months 1 week ago |
| Story | What We Remember | Caldwell | 8 | 5 months 2 weeks ago |
| Story | Oh I do like to be... | Caldwell | 5 | 6 months 6 days ago |
| Story | Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024 | Caldwell | 8 | 6 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Ken Market | Caldwell | 6 | 6 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Burma under occupation | Caldwell | 5 | 6 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Shellsuit | Caldwell | 2 | 6 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Collateral | Caldwell | 2 | 7 months 6 days ago |
| Story | Harrow left behind | Caldwell | 2 | 7 months 1 week ago |
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Riddles
In 1984, Nick Kershaw’s The Riddle was in the charts - a mysterious, catchy song full of apparently profound but entirely nonsensical lyrics. It...
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The language of the leaves
In the ruins of our century, the forests began to write again. Their script was neither ink nor binary, but a weaving of signals through sap and...
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Barbers protect men’s egos, hairdressers threaten them.
A few months ago, I went to a hairdresser’s and was treated like royalty. Before I’d even sat down, I was offered a drink - coffee, sparkling water,...
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Trump reads Hansel and Gretel
So there were these two kids, Hansel and Gretel - great kids, really terrific kids. Everybody said so. And they had a father, who was, you know, weak...
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The Moral Compass in a Post-Truth World
Fairy tales may be for children, but the lessons they teach echo in doctors’ wards and flotillas alike. From the earliest age, children encounter...
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The media thrives on hate. I
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
The media thrives on hate. I see more and more people switching off the news, not owning a TV, not buying papers. I got very depressed last year, mostly to do with all the terrors in the Middle East but not limited to just that. I had a friend...
Read full commentPosted in I HATE YOU!
I'm sure if there is a God She or He will understand.
Posted on Sun, 03 Nov 2024
Surely this God would practise what they preach and offer compassion, and love and turn the other cheek regardless of whatever sins may have been committed. Surely that's the point. No one is born evil and we are all a result of our environment....
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I love me a clootie dumpling.
Posted on Sat, 02 Nov 2024
I love me a clootie dumpling.
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Thank you for your high
Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Thank you for your high praise.
I was actually drawing on Andrew Marvell's style. Crossed with a question from Steven Wright "Ok, so what's the speed of dark?". He has some good leftfield oneliners that leave you thinking such as "Why isn’...
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Woman of the hour
Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024
I watched a 2023 film the other night called Woman of the Hour set in 70s LA. Though it's about a serial killer targeting women, it's actually a study on outdated attitudes towards women in general and unfortunately, there is evidence that these...
Read full commentPosted in You picked the wrong time to ask.
A stark and painful image of
Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024
A stark and painful image of womanhood. You capture the cyclical nature of violence, loss, and survival with visceral language—“hollow-eyed blossoms of rape,” “orphans, widowers,” and the repeated “begetting” convey a history of suffering passed...
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Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's
Posted on Mon, 21 Oct 2024
Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's earthy textures, but sparser and more sensual and questioning. "through truffled scurf" and "saltmist warped the wood" are just fantastic.
There's a songwriter I used to listen to called Joanna Newsom who had a...
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Yes, fireworks were a key
Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Yes, fireworks were a key highlight for me too. And running around with sparklers but so scared of that hot metal. I was a '70s kid so a bit later - we had indoor fireworks too as a pre-show before the big ones outside. My dad more than anyone...
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Your poem reminds me of
Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Your poem reminds me of something.
There was a German advert featuring a Mr W for a wind energy company called Epuron. I don't know if you've seen it. It's easy to track down on YouTube.
He is large, awkward and looks like a mime...
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Good old Mrs Cooper.
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
Good old Mrs Cooper. Entertaining kids without even trying.
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