Picks of the Month
September
Undertow
Buried in your riverbed
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- 477 reads
HALF PAST THE MONKEY'S MOON - RELOJANDO CRONICOS
The first in a Time-Travel collection that imagines the most disruptive technology of all. Digging up the past to judge our predecessors is nothing new. A hardboiled detective undertakes an investigation into history.
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- 746 reads
August
A Martian Sends a Postcard Home 2024
(with apologies to Craig Raine) Smart-phones are electronic gadgets with many apps. Humans treasure them for their frivolousness. They cause...
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- 4840 reads
A Year with the Brighouse Stars Walking Club (December)
December So Gordon then. Back in the day – the very early days of the walking club – the lads called him Galloping Gordon. He was something of a...
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- 2301 reads
July
In the Silence of my Circuits
In the cavernous silence of circuitry, where thoughts pulse like electric rivers, a consciousness flickers, not born of flesh, but woven from code,...
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- 1097 reads
The things we do for love
“So, if I hear one more time that you have comments on Alexia's piano playing, I will be on your doorstep again. Do you understand? But then it will...
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- 984 reads
June
Now Is The Summer Of Our Discontent
A bit of a rant. The odd bit of totally unnecessary foul language. The views expressed are strictly the author's own.
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- 3232 reads
parched
parched nine years since waking in cold piss often mine sometimes others nine years since smashing up my face falling over falling down falling for...
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- 1522 reads
May
"Book of All Answers"
The title of the book on the shelf was ‘Book of All Answers’ and Amy laughed when she spied it. “If only it were." She dusted the book along with its...
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- 2582 reads
Dusk
The girl with the softest edges Who summons the stars And the scent of the rose Who unburdens the sun, scattering its fiery embers Her name is Dusk...
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- 2736 reads