Ed Crane
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Waiting for the Flyers - Part 10 Memories
The meeting with David ended with an agreement for him to come to my home as soon as I could leave Sophie’s care to read through the diary I’d kept...
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Bluebell Woods
Haiku for spring (sorry unable to paste Japanese text)
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Waiting For the Flyers Part 9 A Northern View
‘Your experiences of the world outside ours could be a great help. The big cities, Manchester for example. I know everything about them, but only...
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Waiting for the Flyers. Part 8 (David's opposite polarity)
Shifting position in the chair, David pulled his battered phone from his pocket. While staring at the illuminated screen he dabbed his eyes and, like...
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Waiting For the Flyers Pt7 (David Walsham - 2)
Our laughter turned to reflection. What a strange world we’d been born into. Both of us remnants of a time never to return. One trapped in a place...
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Very clever poem Ewan
Posted on Mon, 08 Jun 2020
It is surprising and comforting in the way nature so quickly re-takes it's space. Reading this reminded me of the time not so long ago when Eyjafjallajökull erupted and we had aircraft free skies for a few days. I recall sitting in the garden and...
Read full commentPosted in Now the Cars Are Moving.
Like Claudine I found this very interesting.
Posted on Sun, 07 Jun 2020
I didn't read much science fiction although I know I should read more.
One writer that sticks out for me is Ursula Le Guin. Sure she is so-call white, but I believe she frequently used dark-skinned 'heros' in her books and very definitely...
Read full commentPosted in Afrofuturism - Speculative Fiction. A re-imagining of self.
Enjoy 13th?
Posted on Sat, 30 May 2020
That's a stretch :)
Excellent doc and very informative, I learnt things I didn't realise. Maybe it should be on school curriculums?
Thank you for letting us know about it
Read full commentPosted in #BLM
This subject deserves 330,000,000 rants!
Posted on Sat, 30 May 2020
But that's not going to happen
I could read the works of dozens of philosophers, sociologists and activists and still I would never understand this brutal barbaric behavior.
All the while a country has a flawed constitution that...
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When I read this I thought I was becoming paranoid.
Posted on Mon, 25 May 2020
I saw a description of power and corruption and I began to think I see this in nearly everything I read nowadays. I dismissed my thought telling myself this is about something less political, more personal maybe. However, I am sure my first ...
Read full commentPosted in Olympian Dreams
Ah, there's a lot historical fiction about
Posted on Sun, 24 May 2020
unfortunately :)
Read full commentPosted in Crumbs
Always tricky to know your poems :)
Posted on Fri, 15 May 2020
This one seems very straightforward about a local character, but I suspect a deeper meaning here.
Also I wonder if this is an exercise in a poetic form, something of which I am no expert.
(Form just pisses me off to be honest.)...
Read full commentPosted in Gavin of Ropes
A perfect interpretation of this weeks IP
Posted on Sun, 10 May 2020
Definely worth those cherries
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I thought the analogy of flint to Swiss knife encompassed
Posted on Tue, 05 May 2020
the meaning of evolution very completely. Kind of like 'nuff said,' which is rather in the way you referred to your relationship. Happy or sad we are left wondering, but we know enough.
Very nice.
Read full commentPosted in Starfish to Flint
I liked this
Posted on Mon, 04 May 2020
Smart thinking, clever stuff, and true too. :)
The image remined me of the Statue of Liberty, Was that deliberate? (clever if it was!)
Read full commentPosted in Crooked Timber
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