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school project
you purl kisses into a corner of eternity my body an empty bucket filling slowly from the tingle of teeth feet in a slow dance of time swell and the...
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everything I once knew
Everything I once knew Grows apart and forgotten Like some dull stick Scarred and mutilated. The need to believe in – hope Hopeless Hazy eyed and...
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Bible John 2
I clutch the handle of my holdall, with my purse secure inside. ‘I’m not sure,’ I say. I hold a leaflet out as a shield. ‘Perhaps she’ll get some of...
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Bible John
‘Why do they call you Bible John?’ I ask. ‘They’re just takin the cunt,’ he says. Then apologises a few seconds later for his language. I was given...
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poppy's last shout
Cast adrift. Poppy’s single room in the hospital annex is sparse and milky as a bone. The umbilical cord of the machine by her bed works almost...
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yes, I like it too.
Posted on Wed, 04 Feb 2015
yes, I like it too.
Read full commentPosted in Orbital (fourth position)
plot against the crows, often
Posted on Sun, 25 Jan 2015
plot against the crows, often difficult but a lasting image.
Read full commentPosted in Earth Heart (3)
writers'faces. I was very sad
Posted on Sun, 18 Jan 2015
writers'faces. I was very sad to hear about Terence Oblongs death. We spent many a day on the mountain of Just Fucking Write and I must say he was an inspiration. I was a bit peeved however to find I'll be sharing the Valley of the Giant Stoats...
Read full commentPosted in The death of Terrence Oblong
I like these tales of Emer's
Posted on Sat, 10 Jan 2015
I like these tales of Emer's Ireland and Archie Given going taking his life.
Read full commentPosted in The Hill in the Pale
I read it in one gulp, but it
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
I read it in one gulp, but it went down smoothly. Lovely as a draught of a draught.
Read full commentPosted in Christmas Game Over
surprise ending, but a
Posted on Thu, 01 Jan 2015
surprise ending, but a constant source of wonder.
Read full commentPosted in Cosmological Constant
a well dramatised account of
Posted on Sat, 20 Dec 2014
a well dramatised account of something that should never have been.
Read full commentPosted in 25 Years After
the remarkable thing isn't
Posted on Thu, 11 Dec 2014
the remarkable thing isn't that some men break, it is that some don't, or at least not outwardly, as you have shown here. sea monsters come in many form, many fetishes and I think we are all reduced and reducable to bubbling children scared or...
Read full commentPosted in Sea Monster (part 2/2)
soaks up everything like a
Posted on Tue, 09 Dec 2014
soaks up everything like a sponge is cliched, Delete the sponge bit or use a butchery metaphor eg HIs brains soaks up things like a cow soaks up bovine spongifom encephalophy, which is more words, which defeats the purpose. Mad or what? I liked...
Read full commentPosted in When The Boxes Open
Johnny carried [H]hector.
Posted on Sun, 07 Dec 2014
Johnny carried [H]hector. good fast beat to the action, but referring to them as man 2 and man 3 makes it seem more like a screenplay than a story. You could use shorthand like the fat man and the thinner man etc.
Read full commentPosted in My Friend Johnny (chapter 2)
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