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"Art of Trouble" 3

After the train rolled to a stop at the Croton-Harmon station the conductor opened the doors of the train cars to allow exiting passengers off and...
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My Absent-Minded Violinist

He loves me but he leaves me here and there and everywhere. He makes me sing so tunefully but I wish he’d take more care! One day, a train guard...
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art

language is imperfect art is a conduit for emotion and almost all art is limited by medium even film constrained by its screen a tiny window to peep...
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Assortment #1

1. The Cross I would carry a cross Made from guilt and sweat I will extinguish all my loss My journey will be my debt The road will be my train This...
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The Watchers In The Walls

It was better in the fort. Tucked between the couch and the wall. Made of three blankets, two couch cushions, and a big cardboard box from Mom’s new...
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The lyre of Orpheus

There was a summer, not long after Breathless came out, when I listened to it on repeat. Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds — a song unlike most of theirs,...
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There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Engels

Dyado Petr, Baba Stefka and Todor Zhivkov are/were real people, the earthquake and appointment of a new head of state really did happen, and the places I’ve mentioned really do exist, but much of the rest of this tale is a fig leaf of my imagination. However, it describes an event that could have taken place in my part of Bulgaria seventy years ago. Superstition is so strong and diverse here that it’s possible to make it up and get away with it. Maybe I did make it up and maybe I didn’t.
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A Poet's Greek Mythology

If I knew grace amid embrace of time, that declares how encapsulating and alluring this lyre of blessed energy; then lull of many women surely...
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Cap And Crown

I didn’t just earn a degree I found myself, Inbetween nappies and deadlines, tucked into lunchboxes and long nights, stitched into nursery rhymes and...
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Ghigau part 10

Catherine Booth was in her kitchen, cooking Halloumi burgers and salad, with fruit and Greek yoghurt to follow, and sipping wine. She checked her...
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The face is what forbids us to kill

“Harder! Much harder!” shouts the teacher. “You have to attack! You mustn’t wait! Faster, quicker, meaner! They can’t let you down! You must stay...
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The Bomb Shelter (Chapter Two, p1)

And finally, here is chapter two. Please enjoy. Provide any feedback
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The Bomb Shelter (the remainder of chapter 1)

This is the remainder of Chapter 1, the start of which I posted about a month ago.
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The Vale - Part 4 (Adam Believe)

I can remember the exact moment I saw Adam Berry. It was on the first day of secondary school and we had been instructed, via a letter in the post,...
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The Patrolman - 33

Carruthers continued up Weidlake Drive toward the Reservoir.
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Ghigau 9 part 2

Sam stood, “Would you mind if I looked around the house? You can show me round if you have time.” Lenny looked taken aback at first, but then readily...
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Ghigau 9 part 1

DS Sam Tate climbed the four steps that took her to the Talbot’s porch and stood before the maroon, panelled door, wishing she had worn less clothing...

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