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Trench Feet
Mother was pleased that Father was dead, because the thought of me getting divorced from a wonderful girl that had given me everything and three...
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Life in bits
I picked up a photo of Billy Quinn the other day. Don’t ask me where I got it. He’s handsome. I don’t remember him being handsome. I never remember...
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happy chappy
Got the letter I’d been waiting on. I’d a quick shifty through it. The NHS Complaints Procedure is a joke. It begins with a lie: ‘we would like to...
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school photos 72
‘Aye, I remember that well. Your mum always got her own way.’ John covered his mouth with his hand as he yawned. He grunted, his fingers winding...
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school photos 71
Exhaustion penetrated the pores of John’s face, slackened his jaw, and dulled the light in his pale-green eyes to cataract grey. He cocked his head,...
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as[]well as some brooches,
Posted on Mon, 28 Sep 2015
as[]well as some brooches,
to invisible, microscopic bacteria [he can't see them or sense them [cut]
he was in fact meditating [cut, you're telling the reader something he is aware of [cut?]
never[]mind
lovely, really...
Read full commentPosted in Jake Mutant - Chapter Two
poor Jeremy I think the media
Posted on Sat, 26 Sep 2015
poor Jeremy I think the media assault will make him the ploughed field. Good to see Labour finally having some policies that don't mirror tit-for-tat Tory policy eg Miliband's pre-election boast to go with the Tory spending cuts if elected. Fuck...
Read full commentPosted in For the love of Jeremy Corbyn
interesting, I was just
Posted on Thu, 24 Sep 2015
interesting, I was just thinking about something similiar (but different). How each generation weighs time. Trees by their weight of leaves offers the obivious analogy, are we so different?
Read full commentPosted in My Father's House
the sunset must have invaded
Posted on Tue, 22 Sep 2015
the sunset must have invaded the sky an orange.' I know what you mean, [the sun makes the sky glow orange] a little more care and you'll be right up there.
Read full commentPosted in Running on Desire - The Boat
there's a kind of coming back
Posted on Mon, 14 Sep 2015
there's a kind of coming back I like, an echo of the past and present, the begining and end.
Read full commentPosted in The sound of my love
you carry on too Jeanne we
Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015
you carry on too Jeanne we just muck in and write as we do.
Read full commentPosted in dread-nought
feels real. a headache that
Posted on Sat, 05 Sep 2015
feels real. a headache that binds all thoughts to hurry up and pass or let me die.
Read full commentPosted in Migraine
Reminded me a bit of Stephen
Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2015
Reminded me a bit of Stephen King (Stand by Me and The Tommyknockers) it's certainly got that otherness that affects dreams and memory and turns a body. I don't think 'no one' needs a hypen. And I'm not sure about choosing 'initiates'. I love the...
Read full commentPosted in Relic
thanks vera and littlebit. I
Posted on Thu, 03 Sep 2015
thanks vera and littlebit. I acutally forgot I wrote this. I guess that photo of the wee boy in the sand, like the one in MyLi, of a little girl burning in Vietnam, makes you think, just a splurge of sound, on paper, no real sense. What makes me...
Read full commentPosted in dread-nought
I suppose getting it down on
Posted on Sun, 26 Jul 2015
I suppose getting it down on 'paper' might help?
Read full commentPosted in Love Journal #1 Damage Control
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