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Grimms 98
Three boys shuffle into the pub through the swing doors, tagged together, a little cortege of platform shoes and high-waist bands bigger than their...
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Grimms 97
Jaz’s handler is waiting for him underneath the clock and the monument of remembrance. A gold-leaf list of the Clydebank dead from the First and...
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Grimms 96
At the top of the Cressie Stairs, just before Angela crosses the road to go to school, she bends away, follows the black train of crows in the sky...
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old sootie and sweep
Plant the old when you’re wild Then at least you’ve been a child Patriarchs that chew the cud Would never think of being so crude Sins living are...
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Grimms 95
Karen isn’t sure how she feels. She looks over the rooftops hoar frost has picked clean of grime and burnished glistening white. Outside the kitchen...
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sounds make us aware, sight
Posted on Tue, 19 Jul 2022
sounds make us aware, sight makes and umakes us.
Read full commentPosted in The Art of Noises : A Futurist's Manifesto
ah without rain we are
Posted on Sat, 16 Jul 2022
ah without rain we are dessicated. Nicely done Jenny. Long hot summers is one thing. Long hot winters another.
Read full commentPosted in Silver Birch
I do. Cause I've just written
Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022
I do. Cause I've just written it. ha.
Read full commentPosted in Ugly Puggly 61
rectum, there seldom is
Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022
rectum, there seldom is obvious blood
loss, [is seldom] blood loss
interesting as always. There's always another better treatment somewhere in the world. If you follow that rabbbit hole, you'll find another hole That's my take, not...
Read full commentPosted in Chemo 3
striated whispers, that's a
Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022
striated whispers, that's a good way of seeing geology
Read full commentPosted in St Audrey's Bay Waterfall
ah, I do a lot of imaginary
Posted on Fri, 15 Jul 2022
ah, I do a lot of imaginary fast typing too. He's at that stage where he hates Cece and loves Nina, or thinks he does, the creation of other in a familiar way.
Read full commentPosted in S T Vasectomy Clinic - 19
ah, caring for the old.
Posted on Thu, 14 Jul 2022
ah, caring for the old.
Read full commentPosted in Paddy
reminds me of Mrs Brown's
Posted on Wed, 13 Jul 2022
reminds me of Mrs Brown's Boys. I'd have went for the Toblerone too.
Read full commentPosted in Bingo
we're all surrealists
Posted on Tue, 12 Jul 2022
we're all surrealists sometimes.
Read full commentPosted in St Agnes Head, 10.7.22
Tolkiein knew his stuff and
Posted on Tue, 12 Jul 2022
Tolkiein knew his stuff and was a worldbuilder.
Read full commentPosted in Alfred N.Muggins’ Response To Words Of Wisdom From Tolkien!
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