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StoryFor the want of a handful of grit…. adam010 years 10 months ago

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Why are we so sniffy about cosy crime novels?

When I picked up a copy of Deborah Crombie's No Mark Upon Her (Pan, 2011) my expectations weren't high. The cover showed a misty river scene complete...

Poem for August 6th

Open skies are deceptive, Their bland innocence hides The falling speck; becoming A scar decades raw. Under the same sky A new world slumbers, Blooms...

Strawberry

Strawberry In the ward garden, one strawberry Red,perfect; picked By a woman life blew asunder, The spoils of the finder, here Quartered between...

Despatches from the war against being ordinary.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love Raymond Carver (Vintage, 2009) 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That...

Stump

In green solitude, nature's castle laid open; The end attached to all beginnings; The seed tracks back to zero, Through loam dominion dwindles, First...

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