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Grimms55
Pizza Face sits on the floor in the living room, his back against the wall, tilting his head, gnawing at his thumbnail until his cuticles redden and...
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Grimms54
The social-work meeting takes place after lunch. Tony lies on top of his bed, with belly ache, paging through a stained Readers Digest he’d found on...
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Grimms53
At breakfast Bob plonks himself beside Tony, ready to make a grab at him if he shows any inkling to butcher another resident or even staff, with a...
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Grimms52
The cook looks up from a pile of dirty pots and dishes, rolls her eyes at Tony and comes walking towards him standing just inside the kitchen door...
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Grimms51
Bruno is hanging about waiting for Tony when he comes out of the office. ‘An ambulance came and took Hunter away,’ he explains. ‘Hunter swears he’s...
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I didn't noitce the picture
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
I didn't noitce the picture of the eagle. Aha, blindsided, like Darren, and the eagle, I suppose. Good story.
Read full commentPosted in No Eagles Allowed
sad words Jenny, but there's
Posted on Fri, 07 Aug 2020
sad words Jenny, but there's love there and that's always good.
Read full commentPosted in Needing Hugs
I hope its memory foam and
Posted on Fri, 24 Jul 2020
I hope its memory foam and remembers not to confuse your head with your feet. Hope you feel better soonish.
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The horse slowed and, at
Posted on Thu, 23 Jul 2020
The horse slowed and, at times, stopped responding to prompts.[makes horses sound like computers] stopped responded to kicks, or spurs clawing at their frozen flanks - yeh, I got carred away.
Wind blew mini-murmurations of yellow leaves...
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luttered in soft symbiosis
Posted on Wed, 22 Jul 2020
luttered in soft symbiosis [sybiosis is the wrong word]
van outside to take her away (because she's a nut job) or something more? difficult balancing act, you've manage reality and unreality well. Keep movig.
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the intestines of novels are
Posted on Mon, 13 Jul 2020
the intestines of novels are always tricky, especially when you're eating and drinking and talking. Life can get messy. Words we can hide behind.
Read full commentPosted in Work Lunchbreak Flash, Alfresco at The Colonial Cafe
‘For Christ sake, the dog’s
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
‘For Christ sake, the dog’s giving birth on my bed. Don’t just stand there, bloody do something.’
A dog giving birth on a bed is a good opening, but to leave the voice unattributed, hanging, as the opening sentence is equivalent of opening...
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when you're doing something,
Posted on Sun, 05 Jul 2020
when you're doing something, you're doing something else. you're being someone (else).
Read full commentPosted in Ironing, a woman's half hour
I guessed that Harrison would
Posted on Sat, 04 Jul 2020
I guessed that Harrison would become Grant. Good start to the body-swap story genre (if such a genre exists?)
Read full commentPosted in "Past and Present" Chapter 1
good story. I don't think you
Posted on Wed, 24 Jun 2020
good story. I don't think you need to reiterate about the cancer being in the middle of Jeff's stomach.
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