Jane Hyphen
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My stories
Don't Look at the Sheikh
‘A small number of you have been selected to work in the VIP tent. This is a very important location and you will be representing the college,...
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This Cannot Be Our Home
We are not earthly, we cannot thrive here without all our rags and shoes, dry shelters, heated, cooled. We all need padded cells. There is so much...
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Junk Jewellery
Come upstairs with me, I’ll show you my junk jewellery. Overflowing from a box which looks like leather. Gold and shiny, sparkling, like something...
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Nil by Mouth
I don’t want the blood to flow I never want to see it Feel the pull inside Grasping claws, organs entwined Just an apple and an egg Lemon water, a...
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Parables of Clippety (15) - The Overworld
There was a tense silence with both women wondering why the receptionist looked so concerned. A very short man with a hooked nose walked over very...
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Reading this is akin to a
Posted on Sat, 30 Apr 2022
Reading this is akin to a butterfly kiss. I love how the length echoes the length of a butterflies visit and 'soft as forgetting' is genius. They are magical little creatures.
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'the pumpkin with bad hair',
Posted on Sat, 23 Apr 2022
'the pumpkin with bad hair', that's a common look since Donald Trump made fake tan mainstream. I also really enjoyed the pub scene, a thing of the past now. And the enduring school bully, acting like a respectable member of the community, shifty...
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So much freedom demonstrated
Posted on Sun, 24 Apr 2022
So much freedom demonstrated here in your words Jenny. There is the part of us that gets old, tired and limited and then this side where anything is possible. 'Hitching a ride on ever changing winds', as long as we can do that, there's a reason...
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This is brilliant and it made
Posted on Wed, 20 Apr 2022
This is brilliant and it made me laugh a lot. Uggly Puggly and his weird mate/lover. I love UP's quirks and the way he is capable of anything, including having too much electricity.
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This is beautiful Di. The
Posted on Thu, 24 Mar 2022
This is beautiful Di. The bright yellow against a blue sky is a wonderful tribute. The way you've described the scent of gorse brought back memories for me, of being in Wales near a beach when my children were small and we couldn't get over how...
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There's something intense
Posted on Mon, 18 Apr 2022
There's something intense about hands, our mother's hands in particular, hands that kept us alive as infants. A very moving poem.3
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That's pretty much it, in a
Posted on Fri, 15 Apr 2022
That's pretty much it, in a nutshell. Very scary that so few people have so much power and so much wealth, following the same pattern as everything else, big businesses taking over small ones, countries seeking to overpower smaller ones. What's...
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You've summed up just how
Posted on Thu, 14 Apr 2022
You've summed up just how much everything has changed over the past week Jenny. The air feels different and spring seems to have burst out of its seems all of a sudden. I love 'not being a pigeon expert', made me smile. The birds bring so much a...
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She still gets excited about
Posted on Sat, 09 Apr 2022
She still gets excited about smelling them - that's so sweet. It's hard to control your emotions, knowing what's ahead but by feeling sad about it you're depriving yourself some of the joy of still having them next to you. I know it's hard to be...
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Fulfilling to read, such a
Posted on Thu, 07 Apr 2022
Fulfilling to read, such a treat Di. I love 'bird song chips clear air', because they do, also love 'smelting life from light'. You've crammed so much quality in that I think I'll need to go back and re-read.
Read full commentPosted in April shower
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