Month: December 2019
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The Orphans
A man I met on holiday told me once the story of how he never met his mother. She was blown to blitz in the same old war that his father fell for. Their only child, he’d been sent away to stay in a place full of strangers, with dangers of its own. He had…
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The Bin Men
The bin men are here and they’re taking away the shite and detritus we make every day, the wrappers and nappies and crappy old bits and bobbins and clothing that no longer fits. They load all the bins on the back of their truck and empty them out in big bucketing chucks. They wheel them…
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The Morning Moment
The Morning Moment When you wake up to those first morning moments, anything is possible. The day has not begun, and it is full of unmade promises. Wrapped up in sheets of myself, below a ceiling as blank as my thinking, I begin. I think of the things I can do. I can buy a…
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The Big Game Hunter
It was dress-down Friday. When Colin walked in, she thought of Donald Trump. He was wearing a beige safari shirt and matching combat trousers. His blond hair had fallen to one side, like that combover that the Donald has. It looked like he was wearing a dead pale beaver on his head. This made her…
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She Moves Forward
She steps out of the door and moves forward. Before her are her dreams, the things she wants and needs, the hopes and likes and loves of her life that are yet to come. They have plagued her, these dreams, haunted her waking hours for so many years that she has come to resent their…