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Day 1. Cope Muir High
‘Cheese-brain’ is a good, sturdy, underused insult. It feels edifying to know that another precocious wordsmith like myself once sat at that desk.
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The Field
Bent over in a heat haze, a figure trudges through a field of yellow rapeseed.
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clickity click-click
I click a blue hyperlink, feeling various — the web spins like a top as I hunt down the ungraspable yarn of my mood.
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A Millennial Syllogism
Thinking of the 90s is strange: those images echo back like an ambulance siren curdling against brickwork
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Fresher Digs
The electric meter sifts out its kilowatt hours noisily
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