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Trigger
Homes built by spread sheets Sterling flows half-level to half level Splitsection soundaspace Stuck-up tower blocks. Designed by gods Jean or Jacques...
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thank-you notes
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...
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Bernie the bolt.
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...
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organist and monkey
The organ, off-kilter as a bagpipe chord, begins the first hymn. Major keys and minor key dance around the usual dirge. Funeral music. The...
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Don't talk back
I slept through the Russian missile crisis when John F Kennedy called the Russian’s bluff and sent them homeward to think again. It was a simpler...
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She aimed a finger at my head
Posted on Wed, 08 Feb 2017
She aimed a finger at my head, and slowly moved it forward until it rested on the gateway of my cursed recession. ' Descriptively, you know what you mean and I know what you mean after I read on, but maybe recession as a lead into baldness is...
Read full commentPosted in CC 108: Daniel
cheers Elsie, I guess the
Posted on Mon, 23 Jan 2017
cheers Elsie, I guess the house is like many others in which the man is king, the wive loyal servant, told what to think and what to do.
Read full commentPosted in grimms16
juxtaposition of life and
Posted on Sat, 07 Jan 2017
juxtaposition of life and death, aye. Makes you think.
Read full commentPosted in Waters
sounds a wee bit like Harry
Posted on Sun, 01 Jan 2017
sounds a wee bit like Harry Kane and a mix of Alex Ferguson and Bill Shankley as the manager.
Read full commentPosted in The Loanee - A Promising Future
christmas and new year number
Posted on Thu, 29 Dec 2016
christmas and new year number one, well done.
Read full commentPosted in Brightest and Best of the Sons of the Mourning?
I've always wanted a tsunami
Posted on Mon, 19 Dec 2016
I've always wanted a tsunami you could fold up in your pocket.
Read full commentPosted in Her father was a thunderstorm
bit about writing books,
Posted on Tue, 13 Dec 2016
bit about writing books, writing block, finding a publisher and utopism. I particularly liked this idea: 'Power and competition in politics and business greed were sidelined and made unfashionable. Work was necessary but it was not to rule life...
Read full commentPosted in History Of The Creadds (Ch.13d)
if you look through your
Posted on Tue, 29 Nov 2016
if you look through your fingers it seems very much like this world, but instead of space travel, simple air travel. that's a good thing to base the future on, being like the past, but with speedbumps. .
Read full commentPosted in Is Space The Final Frontier? Who Will The Man Of The Future Be? (Ch.13c)
I prefer the sun, but I guess
Posted on Sun, 27 Nov 2016
I prefer the sun, but I guess I'm not the only one. Without rain I fear makind would be history.
Read full commentPosted in Rain third position
30 story in 30 days, you're
Posted on Thu, 24 Nov 2016
30 story in 30 days, you're having a fucking laugh! keep at it.
Read full commentPosted in BIG JOHN.
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