rask_balavoine
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I have 88 stories published in
2 collections on the site.
My stories have been read 25743 times
and 65 of my stories have been cherry picked.
Rask Balavoine
From Belfast, the Irish one. Not much more to say.
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Rome the first time.
It was through eyes heavy with fever that I first saw Rome. It was winter, a particularly hard winter, and the overnight train down from Geneva had...
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Salvo had a pretty sister.
Naples, 1978 or thereabouts. On the pavement outside a café two men were drinking coffee at a rickety table; I was one of them. The train that...
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Living in a song perhaps.
I saw a man today who looked like a character torn from of a Leonard Cohen song. The way he smoked his cigarette made smoking look like hard work,...
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Old Vienna
It was an old café with polished tables and high-back, leather chairs. It was an old part of Vienna. The customers were old too, not necessarily in...
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A night like tonight
Can there be anything more decadent and innocent than the cruel grace of a night sky wiped clean of clouds and vanity and held tight in frost? Such a...
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