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The Best Birthday Present Matthew Ever Had

The whole church were standing in the International Christian Centre. The whole Bournemouth branch of Weedon Reservoir Community Church. 160 people...
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Six beds of restless men - a poem

I’ve been so long in this hospital bed, my QR code has faded, I cannot sleep at night. Six beds of restless men, the detritus of the state, Try to...
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Dog Days

Dog Days Lingering on the back seat, threadbare tartan rug, paw prints in paisley, dust preserved in amber. I think of chiffon, fur coloured ebony,...
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Poem of the week

walking over my grave.

Shamans and shy creatures whisper of danger, Souls without dreams are lost in the shade. Staring at screens in a world full of shadows, A hagstone of...
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What Now?

Each morning I wake up and I am thankful for the silence. I act as quietly as I can but, eventually, they awake. I hear their yawns as I dress myself...
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Rat Trap: November 1978

By the time Alan clocked off from the Plessey site on Sutton Road, the sky was already a black and starless maw. The kind of hungry darkness that...
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Apocalyptic

Apocalyptic Jennifer Pickup, 30.06.2026 Heat wave on heat wave Portents everywhere Hailstones like golf balls Unforgiving air A string of dead dogs...

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Oh God, the socialites mobilize I lumber among them pallid and tree-frog fingered Silently thrashing limbs against the quicksand ways of this world...
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APP-titude

A silly bit of nonsense. Image: Wikimedia Commons APP-TITUDE I've got an app to wake me up an app to switch the kettle on an app to count my calories...
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