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“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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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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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…
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January 2023

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…
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December 2022

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…
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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…
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November 2022

I am driving a car - I don’t know how. I can barely open a door or hold a steering wheel, let alone sit and talk and arch my back with the confidence…
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I was startled to discover that the number 1 bus actually exists. Buses should have numbers such as 83, 176, 214 or maybe 47 if you’re being generous…
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“Only write when you’re hungover,” Dolores tell me when I’m hungover one morning. Alright, I think, and set about it. I am adventurous in my…
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October 2022

“How big a cake will you have on your wedding day?” Dolores asked me in a dream one night.
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September 2022

The blinking cursor blights the writer. Dickens Bronte Wordsworth Shelley or any others you might care to name in our tongue could finish and know it…
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Finishing up some new stories - popping this up in the meantime as I read it aloud a couple of weeks ago.
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