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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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school photos 70
Potential buyers were coming to view the house. Fastmoves, the estate agents, planted a wooden flag in the front garden. A sign of progress. Jo had...
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school photos 69
Clock time was abolished. They left him to stew in the damp underground cell. Shiny white brick swimming from floor to ceiling. Caged light above his...
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school photos 68
The front door banged at an ungodly hour. No watch, no alarm clock, to tell him the time, John mashed gummy-sleep from the corners of his eyes with...
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school photos 67
Lying in bed, John was pickled with sleep and eyed the Christmas-tree brightness of the yellow light shade above his head and the heavy brocade of...
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sweet and not in a sugary way
Posted on Mon, 15 Feb 2016
sweet and not in a sugary way.
Read full commentPosted in Buster
Time indeed, has no hold.
Posted on Sun, 07 Feb 2016
Time indeed, has no hold.
Read full commentPosted in My dead diary – Sunday 7th February
lovely - and wooly thoughts
Posted on Sun, 31 Jan 2016
lovely - and wooly thoughts about love and caring - I like that.
Read full commentPosted in SEVENTEEN (after Oliver Comins)
unbalancing planes is quite a
Posted on Sat, 16 Jan 2016
unbalancing planes is quite a trick, but I guess I could get good with time. Liked this.
Read full commentPosted in Beginners, Please...
oh, date with new dentures.
Posted on Wed, 06 Jan 2016
oh, date with new dentures. the wolf equivalent of garlic. Nice little mix and minx of a story.
Read full commentPosted in Rudy, Lil Red and DJ Gran [Red Riding Hood Retelling]
beautiful and true -god knows
Posted on Tue, 05 Jan 2016
beautiful and true -god knows it's true and so do you.
Read full commentPosted in Triptych 1: Mass
the afforntery of that Clare,
Posted on Mon, 04 Jan 2016
the afforntery of that Clare, watch out for the creak of the wardrobe and soon she'll no be there. I like this.
Read full commentPosted in The Wardrobe
Vietnamese with a waiting [t
Posted on Mon, 14 Dec 2015
Vietnamese with a waiting [t]Taxi driver
he [w]Winced.
characterisation and descriptive prose are great.
Read full commentPosted in The March of the Dragons Chapter 2 (minus the last paragraph due to word count).
the world is a friendlier
Posted on Wed, 30 Dec 2015
the world is a friendlier place when we smile.
Read full commentPosted in Sometimes...
in case they hurt themselves,
Posted on Sun, 20 Dec 2015
in case they hurt themselves, you see, I see clearly, but what can you do when there's only me and you?
Read full commentPosted in Glass is a Supercooled Liquid
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