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Continue reading →: Broken bonesI recall the feeling of the broken bone itself, a greenstick fracture, left arm. The second more grisly feeling was that of falling backwards and putting my arm out to break my fall, as the now broken bone jarred against the tarmac. It was pretty miserable. But the idea of…
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Continue reading →: Forbidden fruit
List your top 5 favorite fruits. I say forbidden, mainly because it sometimes feels like fruit is bought for particular people, because they like them. This somehow puts it off limits for the rest of the household. No idea why. Even if you watch it mould away day by day…
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Continue reading →: MaidynThe pair trudged onward. They believed their legs would ache by now but it was their souls that ached first. The journey was long. Soon enough, they would meet their creator, Maidyn. Being all that was left of humanity, there was nothing for them to fix, to make, to go…
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Continue reading →: Followed the rules but missed the pointWhen I think about writing a new piece, I always remember this quote. There are distinct rules when writing fiction. Spelling and grammar are obviously well established, alongside sentence construction, not forgetting all the rules that publishers set out in terms of the layout and format of your work. There…
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Continue reading →: Writing is riskyIt was always going to be a risk to send out my work for other people to read. I have always tinkered around with writing but never really put my work out there for consideration. Until a few years ago, when the pandemic hit and lets face it, people had…
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