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Continue reading →: Recent updatesHi all, just a quick note. You may have noticed some recent changes to the blog page. Really nothing to worry about, just me making some changes in the background to make it a bit easer to navigate. Really hope you are enjoying the pieces on here and would love…
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Continue reading →: Poem – Northern Sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a bag of chips?Thou art more greasy and less desired.Strong winds do shake the dimpled bed at night,And morning breath hath burned at any rate.Sometime too hard the kicking of the shins,And often is his bald complexion dulled;And all affairs are fairly fast declined,By chance,…
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Continue reading →: Short fiction – The visitThe East coast cliffs dripped rainwater into the black soup below. Buoys bobbing about like soggy croutons. My story starts here, at the beginning, before it was nearly the end. England poured grey. Even the fields reflected the greyness from the motorway. Jay loved it, loved the comforting blandness of…
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Continue reading →: A Christmas poemA tangle of wires and musty glued pasta reindeers, Tumble without ceremony from the loft hatch It is still July Christmas started so early this year it was called late Christmas or mid Crimbo for its proper title People stand next to pseudo sheds and punt a tenner For a…
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