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Bible John
‘Why do they call you Bible John?’ I ask. ‘They’re just takin the cunt,’ he says. Then apologises a few seconds later for his language. I was given...
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poppy's last shout
Cast adrift. Poppy’s single room in the hospital annex is sparse and milky as a bone. The umbilical cord of the machine by her bed works almost...
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The big Malky
Frank took two days to hitchhike down to London. It was all new. A night sleeping in a plastic bin bag sheltering outside a Tube station, with what...
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snap
You didn’t need to be a fortune teller to work out what Granda was thinking. Eyes windows of the soul, but eyebrows garbed like two grey squirrel...
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Rambling
Rambled away – weather grey No road and mud suckled Muckle on Hold my coat aloft Breezed away into the day Hills that hug Jag-eyed vision of...
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we're all capitalists now
Posted on Wed, 11 Feb 2015
we're all capitalists now comrade.
Read full commentPosted in an American thinks of Russia
yes, I like it too.
Posted on Wed, 04 Feb 2015
yes, I like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Orbital (fourth position)
plot against the crows, often
Posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2015
plot against the crows, often difficult but a lasting image.
Read full commentPosted in Earth Heart (3)
writers'faces. I was very sad
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2015
writers'faces. I was very sad to hear about Terence Oblongs death. We spent many a day on the mountain of Just Fucking Write and I must say he was an inspiration. I was a bit peeved however to find I'll be sharing the Valley of the Giant Stoats...
Read full commentPosted in The death of Terrence Oblong
I like these tales of Emer's
Posted on Sat, 10 Jan 2015
I like these tales of Emer's Ireland and Archie Given going taking his life.
Read full commentPosted in The Hill in the Pale
I read it in one gulp, but it
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
I read it in one gulp, but it went down smoothly. Lovely as a draught of a draught.
Read full commentPosted in Christmas Game Over
surprise ending, but a
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
surprise ending, but a constant source of wonder.
Read full commentPosted in Cosmological Constant
a well dramatised account of
Posted on Sat, 20 Dec 2014
a well dramatised account of something that should never have been.
Read full commentPosted in 25 Years After
the remarkable thing isn't
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2014
the remarkable thing isn't that some men break, it is that some don't, or at least not outwardly, as you have shown here. sea monsters come in many form, many fetishes and I think we are all reduced and reducable to bubbling children scared or...
Read full commentPosted in Sea Monster (part 2/2)
soaks up everything like a
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2014
soaks up everything like a sponge is cliched, Delete the sponge bit or use a butchery metaphor eg HIs brains soaks up things like a cow soaks up bovine spongifom encephalophy, which is more words, which defeats the purpose. Mad or what? I liked...
Read full commentPosted in When The Boxes Open
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