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10 Near Death Experiences (but there's only 5 NDEs because I'm still alive).
Ten near-death experiences. I don’t remember this NDE, but I’ve got reliable witnesses lined up to testify, although not on me, that it’s true. I was...
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Ambush
If you don’t get by Don’t ask why Maybe next year Shift your feet Move on Can’t you see? Work harder Become like me Cleanse the dust Sunny side up...
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fix you 3
Back at base, doors scanned and measured Inspector Allan’s approach and let him through. Office walls ebbed and flowed and doubled as free-floating...
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toxic bubbles over Manchester
Heat febrile facts—folly blooms Gather the witch’s stool A fiend inspired Little potions, little notions, little imps Shrink chaos and sell the jar...
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Easy Tiger.
‘Easy Tiger,’ Archie said, swaying and backing away towards the living room door. He wasn’t sure how a ten-foot long Bengali tiger had squeezed into...
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nice rhyme, nice time and a
Posted on Sat, 13 Aug 2016
nice rhyme, nice time and a Bermondsey boy returned to his roots and you've made his wrold known.
Read full commentPosted in BERMONDSEY BOY (LONDON)
thanks torscott, I'm not sure
Posted on Wed, 10 Aug 2016
thanks torscott, I'm not sure I can take any more misery.
Read full commentPosted in Ernie at the edge of the world
yeh, I sometimes imagine
Posted on Tue, 02 Aug 2016
yeh, I sometimes imagine places are like batteries or reservoirs, holding onto energy.
Read full commentPosted in The Cobbe house iv Aftermath
good luck with this ladylily.
Posted on Sun, 31 Jul 2016
good luck with this ladylily.
Read full commentPosted in Bermondsey to Basra Battlefronts.
I'm a bit dense too seashore.
Posted on Sun, 24 Jul 2016
I'm a bit dense too seashore. clumsy, a form of justification, almost a cliche, a throwway liine that comes before, Allahu Akbar and throws away lives. I've actually convinced myself that's what I meant, whiich is quite impressive for me.
Read full commentPosted in Tribe
gets you on the rebound.
Posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2016
gets you on the rebound. There's a jump in the point of view from the narrator to that of the dogs watching him, in the first parargraph. It's a forecful imaged. Just meat. But incongrouus.
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Brilliant, but you gallop to
Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016
Brilliant, but you gallop to the ending.
Read full commentPosted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)
we're all weak and fragile.
Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2016
we're all weak and fragile. That is our strength.
Read full commentPosted in OverPowered
I'm not even as simple as I
Posted on Tue, 28 Jun 2016
I'm not even as simple as I think.
Read full commentPosted in Outery (Salt of the Earth)
if life is a classroom I'm in
Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2016
if life is a classroom I'm in the wrong school.
Read full commentPosted in Classroom
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