celticman
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mystic mike
I will punish myself with myself drift on –alone putty around the edges stylites from the nineties council house and dog man without a job ascetic...
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flockers 11
Swirled whisky around my tongue. Listened to the shrill see-saw cadence and frenzied excitement in his voice and the little gulps of silence. Poured...
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flockers 10
Must admit the journey home was constrained, especially on the train. Didn’t see much of Myra in the next few weeks. Neither of us had a phone. Put...
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flockers 9
Felt better. Scrubbed up as best as I could in the morning, a complexion like boiled pink ham, showed a face no mother would kiss. Breakfast a...
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King of the Dole
Eleven o’clock opening. Davie wedged himself on his usual barstool with his back to the mosaic of square windows. He leaned across a bar still wet...
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fall in love ju[s]t by its
Posted on Fri, 31 Oct 2014
fall in love ju[s]t by its words' I often wonder what poety is (and is not).
Read full commentPosted in A Poets Mystery Lane
Home from school for the
Posted on Tue, 28 Oct 2014
Home from school for the Summer, I had been enjoying a leisurely reintroduction to home, taking my dog Barney out for walks [Back from school > that way you don't use home twice in the same sentence]
from los parentes [should this be...
Read full commentPosted in A Wake for Barney
cast (not callously caste)
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
cast (not callously caste) although caste is perhaps nearer the mark. I'm sure everything will turn out wonderfully well when your shoplifting skills get better. I thought paracetamol screwed up your liver (not your kidneys) and was usually fatal...
Read full commentPosted in The Diary of an Aspiring Hitman - Chapter 2
good twist and it does seem
Posted on Tue, 21 Oct 2014
good twist and it does seem to match fairy lore, perhaps the last paragraph is unnecessary?
Read full commentPosted in Wind Dancer
Nature is as precise an
Posted on Wed, 01 Oct 2014
Nature is as precise an accountant as any. [delete last two words]
Wonderful story and the telling it of it wasn't bad either, spicy and full of sausage (oh dear, couldn't help that pun).
Read full commentPosted in The Ministry of Kisses
had to look up arpicity.
Posted on Sun, 28 Sep 2014
had to look up arpicity. Enjoyed the mixing of astronomy, metrical feet and hands and knees. In other words I enjoyed this poem. Almost there with Ex. You've done a great job. A little more and you'll be there. Where, I'm not sure exactly.
Read full commentPosted in Rosalind
dimly-lit students'. You
Posted on Fri, 26 Sep 2014
dimly-lit students'. You maybe better finding another description that's too much like a light bulb.
.There's no such thing...' ditch the full stop at the begining of this section.
Do what thou wilt is the whole...
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yep, I'm with Charles Schultz
Posted on Sun, 21 Sep 2014
yep, I'm with Charles Schultz, although, of course, my family never had a car, because only rich folk did, but hey, it's a sunny day. I liked this.
Read full commentPosted in Don't Ask
yeh, I get it, but someone
Posted on Sat, 13 Sep 2014
yeh, I get it, but someone stole it off me.
It's something the Asian students do TO WORN...think you missed out a few words here.
great story. true to life (and I'm not a great fan of Virginia Woolf either).
Read full commentPosted in I have no sympathy
No one is stopping you. Write
Posted on Wed, 10 Sep 2014
No one is stopping you. Write and be wonderful.
Read full commentPosted in I Hate Being 19!
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