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carpe diem

By celticman on Mon, 15 Feb 2016

At a personal level I don’t like funerals much. Life everlasting gets a trifle wearing. Leave it the professionals and all that. I brief the priest...

Spiritual

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Trigger

By celticman on Fri, 12 Feb 2016

Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...

Historical Fiction

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thank-you notes

By celticman on Mon, 01 Feb 2016

I wrote thank-you notes as a child. A thick HB3 pencil in my chubby mit. The pencil sharpener on the teacher’s desk, head height, was a big thing...

Romance

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Bernie the bolt.

By celticman on Fri, 22 Jan 2016

I got a text message on the way back from Dalmuir Station. I checked my phone. Saw it was from Bernie. “Cm up & see me,” it read. His flat was...

Science fiction

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gets you on the rebound.

Posted on Thu, 21 Jul 2016

gets you on the rebound. There's a jump in the point of view from the narrator to that of the dogs watching him, in the first parargraph. It's a forecful imaged. Just meat. But incongrouus.

Posted in Dogs

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Brilliant, but you gallop to

Posted on Thu, 07 Jul 2016

Brilliant, but you gallop to the ending.

Posted in Flowers (Part Two of Two) (IP)

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we're all weak and fragile.

Posted on Wed, 29 Jun 2016

we're all weak and fragile. That is our strength.

Posted in OverPowered

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I'm not even as simple as I

Posted on Tue, 28 Jun 2016

I'm not even as simple as I think.

Posted in Outery (Salt of the Earth)

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if life is a classroom I'm in

Posted on Sun, 26 Jun 2016

if life is a classroom I'm in the wrong school.

Posted in Classroom

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in a circle, in a cycle, a

Posted on Sat, 25 Jun 2016

in a circle, in a cycle, a controlled storm of writing.

Posted in The First Step

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this is good, really good,

Posted on Wed, 15 Jun 2016

this is good, really good, but could be far better if you broke the three seperate narratives into seperate storylines of six, thirteen and eighteen. Slow down time. It's got an edge about it, which I like.