Di_Hard

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hard and fast and shiny

By Di_Hard on Mon, 07 Jan 2019

we make our faces look plastic like dolls we had as children, un aging if we can afford to pay in plastic. Package fruit so it won't go black as air...

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lost in space

By Di_Hard on Sat, 05 Jan 2019

in a bowl of hills beside the sea air is ice cream red orange green lights tutti frutti the ferry's fog horn a spoon full of stillness

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Spring a Butterfly

By Di_Hard on Sun, 23 Dec 2018

Dusty cocoon of box tight packed through warmer days deep green wire limbed larvi unbends into branches of frizzy plastic tree tall, when you both...

not ready to fly yet

By Di_Hard on Thu, 08 Nov 2018

cat on the bed looks up as I go in he lies on the floor curled as if fallen like a leaf still in school uniform the chrysalis of his face asleep next...

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loved the sossij bit :0)

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

loved the sossij bit :0)

Posted in Sausage (Episode18 - The Further Chronicles of a Young Lady (and her Maid))

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I liked very much what Walt

Posted on Thu, 31 Jul 2025

I liked very much what Walt Dodson said about the silences between David Bowie tracks :0) He sounds so lovely, as Sheila. My school, we never had recorders given out, but my son did. It is one of a year's milestones, that afternoon when primary...

Posted in While My Guitar Teacher Gently Weeps

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so many kind people! This is

Posted on Tue, 29 Jul 2025

so many kind people! This is a lovely poem, though your comment about being on a snowy hilltop when he rang to tell of its being left on the train - very funny as a story, but HOW STRESSFUL that must have been at the time! For you and your son

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Jenny, you MUST know grace,

Posted on Sun, 27 Jul 2025

Jenny, you MUST know grace, to write how you do! I like very much

"weaving lyrics...beating natures / pulse" which made me think of the flutter of wings being like a pulse and the flight-paths of birds being invisible veins in the heart of...

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That's a lovely story :0)

Posted on Mon, 28 Jul 2025

That's a lovely story :0) Apart from the Earthquake. Mariyka is a true heroine with such gumption! I imagine her happily dancing the nights away with her happy and hunky husband. Hopefully, if she cared so little for conventions that she sat on...

Posted in There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels

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I would be the same as Rachel

Posted on Sat, 26 Jul 2025

I would be the same as Rachel, so really enjoyed your story

should this be stroking, in the last few lines? "Striking the bird's head, the broken wing."

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I hope your bees come back.

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

I hope your bees come back. And you are having cooler weather now, it is starting to feel like almost Autumn, here

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You taught me about the story

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

You taught me about the story, too. Those Greek gods were so tetchy!!! Hollyhocks were one of the first things I managed to grow - one grew as high as Mum's bedroom window :0) Now I like the single ones best though as bees can get inside

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the desolation of his job

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

the desolation of his job taking up so much of his life, trying to support his perfect wife and child, so perfect they seem almost unreal/unrelated to him, and his past, memories always corroding. This is so sad to read

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Loved this :0) What a perfect

Posted on Thu, 24 Jul 2025

Loved this :0) What a perfect Happy Ending! Maybe their love endured BECAUSE the author could not understand any Greenland language. Guessing the igloo builder spoke and read very good English so they could read such wonderful funny stories