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huts 4 (rewrite)
Heebie-jeebies, I can’t sit still to read through the file on Norean Kileen. Try not to be too obvious. I spy on her as she waltzes down the corridor...
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huts (rewrite) part 3
Wullie the Pole wheels a trolley into the space between the doors of the kitchen and dining hall. The tables are set out for breakfast, but the hatch...
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little Hiroshima in my head
Little Hiroshima in my head. Up in the air Single self fractures and disintegrates Leaving life too late Making rubble of the past A future that will...
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huts 2 (rewrite)
'I'm looking for Ailsa ward.' I speak too quickly, trying to sound as confident as him, almost stuttering. But if I stuttered I would have died. The...
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huts 1 (rewrite)
The security guard with a pencil moustache, slides open the window of the lodge at the hospital gates and addresses me as ‘sir’. I’m given directions...
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yes, I agree, echo it is for
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
yes, I agree, echo it is for me.
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a stout heart and a wet mouth
Posted on Wed, 16 Nov 2016
a stout heart and a wet mouth, right enough. But I don't like the start: 'Paidi’s hurled face of wrath.' I'd guess you'd have to put it another way to get the man and his moods right.
Read full commentPosted in CC 68: The Health of the Salmon
I really enjoyed reading this
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
I really enjoyed reading this. The only false note I detected was you saying you were 'socially withdrawn' I prefer the more striaghtforward, I was shy. Reminds me a bit of Jackie Kay going to the same kind of meetings, but for socialists, and...
Read full commentPosted in Autobiography - To Revolution Singing
there's a lot of pain here,
Posted on Sat, 12 Nov 2016
there's a lot of pain here, brimmng and overflowing words that stain our minds and we have no refrain, because, to be honest, we do the same cruel things again and again.
Read full commentPosted in Do you?
a year is nothing, but
Posted on Fri, 04 Nov 2016
a year is nothing, but sometimes it is something.
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summer cloaking turns...yes
Posted on Fri, 21 Oct 2016
summer cloaking turns...yes it's in the air.
Read full commentPosted in A Tree Branch
some interpretations of
Posted on Thu, 13 Oct 2016
some interpretations of -earth-history, I tend to agree with. What comes next? More of the same I'd guess.
Read full commentPosted in testament: beneath the collonades
noir always rains and grey
Posted on Wed, 12 Oct 2016
noir always rains and grey dayis n black and white in cinama pain, but here's to Gene, so long ago it seems obscene, but as you get older the frames get bolder and what stands true are the pieces of me and you.
Read full commentPosted in It Rains in the Movies Too
reminds me a wee bit about a
Posted on Sun, 04 Sep 2016
reminds me a wee bit about a girl that was taken to the doctors because she could never sit still. The doctor stuck some music on, and as they left the rooms, they watched her through a crack in the door. There's nothing wrong with her, 'she's a...
Read full commentPosted in The Land Where Dancing Was Forbidden
yep, it rocks like a western
Posted on Fri, 26 Aug 2016
yep, it rocks like a western shoot-out.
Read full commentPosted in The Crimson wake vii dark revelations
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