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Let Me Eat Turnips
Amidst the most recent food shortage, it was with delight that I greeted the news that a Politician had instructed us to eat turnips. “Yes, turnips,” I…
Aug 27
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July 2023
The Long Unwinding
Written with Gutter Street for their Red Road Writers Club.
Jul 30
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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…
Jul 1
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June 2023
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…
Jun 26
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April 2023
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…
Apr 23
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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…
Apr 3
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February 2023
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…
Feb 16
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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…
Feb 8
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Tablecloth
I am in a room with several others - it might be 7, it might be 9, I’m not sure and I can’t be bothered to count. It’s definitely not an even number - I…
Feb 5
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January 2023
On Doodling
Doodling is always fun - sometimes useful, often not. But utility is unimportant, for there exists no moment that is not enhanced by the taking out of a…
Jan 16
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December 2022
Christmas Day
Christmas Day is arrogant and lazy. Christmas Day is arrogant and lazy - all the preceding days do the actual graft. It will be mid-December for me…
Dec 24, 2022
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Take Them to the Wood
How to describe a place to someone who has never been there, how to set the scene. Because it is vital that they feel as I felt when I was up through…
Dec 13, 2022
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