Di_Hard

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I have 26 stories published in 0 collections on the site.
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pinned

By Di_Hard on Fri, 17 Aug 2018

Today I forgot my PIN number. I think it's all the contactless there is now. How easy it is to go without needing to say hello or reply. Or touch...

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highland games 2018 (again)

By Di_Hard on Tue, 14 Aug 2018

sound wells up from the town molten silver bright unpools between old buildings, gold in afternoon sun, warm. Home. Thrill swells - All have come...

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W_W

By Di_Hard on Fri, 27 Jul 2018

Some times there is a flicker in the passing pages of years, a golden sparkle and bright colour reaches out from the black and white makes a reader...

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a break from hoovering

By Di_Hard on Tue, 26 Jun 2018

wriggle bummed bees busy browsing discourse on roses, pore over cool pale petal pages of pollen gold-illumined manuscripts gathering anthologies of...

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In your shoes

By Di_Hard on Sat, 23 Jun 2018

The bag's bright pink, prawn cocktail in clear script. We don't have prawns now the sea is plastic soup. You wear shoes so your feet don't touch the...

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how you describe your mother

Posted on Thu, 05 Jul 2018

how you describe your mother cooking is beautiful. All the riches of living colour transmuted into taste. Like Renaissance art was a light bulb and cooking for you was the sun where she spread her wings. And the expression of your grief coming...

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Very interesting to read his

Posted on Fri, 02 Feb 2018

Very interesting to read his story. I only really knew of him from hearing an interview about how by the time they let working class people into Oxford it was so dummed down there was no point going there, and that the elites never accepted him...

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You are quite right Tom, it's

Posted on Sun, 17 Sep 2017

You are quite right Tom, it's just a collection of nature scenes. It's just that I realised that someone from centuries ago could have seen them, too. And while I think of the wood as a beautiful place to go and see the sun and hear the birds....

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