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| Type | Title | Author | Replies | Last updated |
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| Story | Off the rails (IP) | Caldwell | 6 | 2 months 4 days ago |
| Story | claptrap | celticman | 12 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | Winter | D Marie | 11 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Blog entry | Word puns | Caldwell | 0 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | A Wind and Wuthering Day | purplehaze | 6 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | In Suspension | Caldwell | 4 | 2 months 1 week ago |
| Story | The Tale of the Housemaid’s Knee | Turlough | 18 | 2 months 2 weeks ago |
| Blog entry | Confederacy of drunkards | Caldwell | 1 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Meat Crimes - Scene 4 | Caldwell | 3 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Blog entry | Bloody Scotland - Update! | Insertponceyfre... | 10 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Meat Crimes - Scene 1 | Caldwell | 1 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Bonfire - IP | Caldwell | 6 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Collection | Meat Crimes | Caldwell | 0 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Meat Crimes - Scene 3 | Caldwell | 3 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | The Speed Of Dark // Eclipse | Caldwell | 9 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | Meat Crimes - Scene 2 | Caldwell | 0 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | I HATE YOU! | Maxine Jasmin-Green | 7 | 2 months 3 weeks ago |
| Story | 60s Tea and Oranges | Caldwell | 5 | 2 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | Breast, not Beast | purplehaze | 2 | 2 months 4 weeks ago |
| Blog entry | Is there a word for it? | Caldwell | 3 | 2 months 4 weeks ago |
| Story | The Faceless Goddess of DIY | purplehaze | 4 | 3 months 1 day ago |
| Story | Letter to Paul Simon from Cecilia (circa. Feb 1970) | Caldwell | 4 | 3 months 2 days ago |
| Story | Burial | Caldwell | 10 | 3 months 3 days ago |
| Story | DetermiNature | purplehaze | 1 | 3 months 4 days ago |
| Story | You picked the wrong time to ask. | lenchenelf | 8 | 3 months 6 days ago |
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I lit a thin green candle
I remember when my half-sister came to stay, seven years older than me and full of energy, like a whirlwind dropping into the quiet rhythm of our...
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Goth Kit (IP)
At seventeen, I was a goth. A serious goth. I lived in skin-tight black drainpipes, slippery viscose shirts, eyeliner so sharp it could cut glass,...
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Adam Hopkins September 1939 - November 2024
Sometimes, panic stops my breath. You’ve always been anxious, my wife says. To comfort me? Or is there a note of impatience? Anxious? Not me. Because...
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People say I'm a dreamer
You meet Walter Mitty at a nondescript café on a drizzly Tuesday afternoon. He’s wearing a beige cardigan, slightly wrinkled, and looks like the kind...
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Off the rails (IP)
I did not come to Dr. Jennings of my own volition. It was my wife’s idea, and she insisted upon it with such an air of resolve that I had no choice...
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Thank you for your high
Posted on Mon, 28 Oct 2024
Thank you for your high praise.
I was actually drawing on Andrew Marvell's style. Crossed with a question from Steven Wright "Ok, so what's the speed of dark?". He has some good leftfield oneliners that leave you thinking such as "Why isn’...
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Woman of the hour
Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024
I watched a 2023 film the other night called Woman of the Hour set in 70s LA. Though it's about a serial killer targeting women, it's actually a study on outdated attitudes towards women in general and unfortunately, there is evidence that these...
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A stark and painful image of
Posted on Thu, 24 Oct 2024
A stark and painful image of womanhood. You capture the cyclical nature of violence, loss, and survival with visceral language—“hollow-eyed blossoms of rape,” “orphans, widowers,” and the repeated “begetting” convey a history of suffering passed...
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Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's
Posted on Mon, 21 Oct 2024
Wonderful. Seamus Heaney's earthy textures, but sparser and more sensual and questioning. "through truffled scurf" and "saltmist warped the wood" are just fantastic.
There's a songwriter I used to listen to called Joanna Newsom who had a...
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Yes, fireworks were a key
Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Yes, fireworks were a key highlight for me too. And running around with sparklers but so scared of that hot metal. I was a '70s kid so a bit later - we had indoor fireworks too as a pre-show before the big ones outside. My dad more than anyone...
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Your poem reminds me of
Posted on Wed, 25 Sep 2024
Your poem reminds me of something.
There was a German advert featuring a Mr W for a wind energy company called Epuron. I don't know if you've seen it. It's easy to track down on YouTube.
He is large, awkward and looks like a mime...
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Good old Mrs Cooper.
Posted on Sat, 21 Sep 2024
Good old Mrs Cooper. Entertaining kids without even trying.
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Very atmospheric. I can feel
Posted on Tue, 24 Sep 2024
Very atmospheric. I can feel it all. It's all very familiar, except my dad didn't rule the house with an iron fist.
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Excellent. I had such
Posted on Sat, 14 Sep 2024
Excellent. I had such compassion. I was cheering with the others even before you/she got to the finish line. Very real and so well told.
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Fabulous
Posted on Wed, 14 Aug 2024
I enjoyed this profoundly. Not only the fact that like most, I can relate totally, but your lucid dream is so very close to the kind of dreams I experience. I am also indebted to you for reminding me of Lord Acton's quote. For a while now I have...
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