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The Long Unwinding
Written with Gutter Street for their Red Road Writers Club.
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No Trespassers!
There is a sign on my block of flats that bears two words: “No Trespassers!” I am a lover of the notion that this sign is effective. That a trespasser…
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Baby!
Some dear friends have recently had a baby. I, in all my humble and terrible generosity, decided to buy them a card to celebrate that fact. The…
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Extremes on the Subject of Objects
“Nothing is but what it is,” he said in response. “That hat,” he pointed at the hat, “is just a fucking hat. It serves a purpose, shelters you from the…
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Elspeth
Elspeth was a dancer - though she wasn’t very good. She had been coerced into it at a young age and through some loose determination and a lack of…
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Grapple
“How can you grapple with what consumes you?” She asks, her face creasing in bemusement. I had said the phrase with such pride, deep resonance and high…
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A Can of Fizzy Pop
Ermintrude was her name - she did not know why her parents had inflicted this upon her. But still she struggled gamely on, through every school register…
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Short stories and rambles.
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