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grimms31
‘Shouldn’t you be going up the road, about now?’ says Jaz, smiling into his pint. ‘To get ready for your big date.’ Rab’s bottom lips droops and he...
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grimms30
Jaz catches Pizza Face a slap on the back of the head when he catches him and Tony smoking a roll-up at the bottom of the stairs. ‘Go up to Rab’s and...
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grimms29
After a while Tony and Angela get sick of hiding from a giant dinosaur under the bed and crawl out dusty and uneaten, which is just as well, because...
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grimms28
When Dermot answers the door, he’s not sure what to expect. ‘I’m Marie,’ she says, holding a soft hand out for him to shake. ‘And I’m a social worker...
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grimm27
The school nurse’s grey hair resembles an unkempt blackbird’s nest, with a pokey wee white hat stranded on it. She has squeezed into her white...
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the intestines of novels are
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2020
the intestines of novels are always tricky, especially when you're eating and drinking and talking. Life can get messy. Words we can hide behind.
Read full commentPosted in Work Lunchbreak Flash, Alfresco at The Colonial Cafe
‘For Christ sake, the dog’s
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
‘For Christ sake, the dog’s giving birth on my bed. Don’t just stand there, bloody do something.’
A dog giving birth on a bed is a good opening, but to leave the voice unattributed, hanging, as the opening sentence is equivalent of opening...
Read full commentPosted in The Human Touch: Chapter One
when you're doing something,
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
when you're doing something, you're doing something else. you're being someone (else).
Read full commentPosted in Ironing, a woman's half hour
I guessed that Harrison would
Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020
I guessed that Harrison would become Grant. Good start to the body-swap story genre (if such a genre exists?)
Read full commentPosted in "Past and Present" Chapter 1
good story. I don't think you
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
good story. I don't think you need to reiterate about the cancer being in the middle of Jeff's stomach.
Read full commentPosted in I Can Never Say Sorry…
yes - and moe. But we can but
Posted on Sun, 21 Jun 2020
yes - and moe. But we can but try to define it.
Read full commentPosted in What is Love?
hail, spring indeed.
Posted on Sun, 14 Jun 2020
hail, spring indeed.
Read full commentPosted in This year's walk...(08)
for perhaps the first time,
Posted on Fri, 12 Jun 2020
for perhaps the first time, the younger generation can no longer expect to have a better life than their parents. That's the saddest part. As you mention, the rich had it easy. They still do. The poor had bleak and short lives, or so we would...
Read full commentPosted in Living In Another Era.
there's hope for us all
Posted on Tue, 09 Jun 2020
there's hope for us all -eventually.
Read full commentPosted in The Interviewee (2045)
thnaks delibetely ev and
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020
thnaks delibetely ev and everyone else who vetured in. Let's get out there and write (there should be some dramatic music here).
Read full commentPosted in before she could not
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