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205: The Hazel Leaf
With my eyes trained down at the rain-spattered pavement, I saw her step on a leaf. In her wake, I looked down at it, pausing for a...
Feb 5, 20211 min read
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204: The Sky is Falling
Someone somewhere said that the sky is falling. Tilting my head back, I look up. The clouds have split into a quilt ripped at the seams....
Feb 3, 20211 min read
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203: Sweet Dreams
Closing my eyes, I hug the duvet closer and sink my cheek into the pillow. Finally I can let go, breathe in, breathe out. I can stop...
Feb 1, 20211 min read
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202: A Broken Cycle
The signs are all off. I can't read them anymore. A pressure here, a dull ache there used to tell me the time of the month. A downpour, a...
Jan 29, 20211 min read
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201: Slow Changes Disappear
The snow is twelve inches deep where people don't walk. Winding paths disappear under layers and layers, only visible by the outline of...
Jan 27, 20211 min read
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200: Observations From a Window
They talk about a golden sunset and a pink dawn, but forget the soft warmth of a sunrise that merges them both. Soft white and gold coat...
Jan 25, 20211 min read
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199: We Meant for There to be More
We flitter like shopping lists and napkins in the wind, used, discarded, tools to remind ourselves of what we need. Food. Health. Across...
Jan 22, 20211 min read
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198: So Close Yet so Far
So then we hugged. But then, as I felt their arms wrapping around me, pulling me into their chest, it became an embrace. I found myself...
Jan 20, 20211 min read
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197: Melting
blue ice is cold ice is layers of crystallised layers merged into rolling plasticity that grinds the rock and digs digs digs until it...
Jan 18, 20211 min read
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196: Privileged
The birds come out again at midnight, twittering, whistling, chirping. Or maybe it is first now, emerging from the haze induced by...
Jan 15, 20211 min read
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195: As Seen From Beneath
She figures herself as a scientist, or perhaps someone doing a jigsaw, as she examines and rearranges the pieces of his body, readjusting...
Jan 13, 20211 min read
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194: Stagnant Circle
We rise at dawn with fury in our eyes, dreams still burning bright within our hearts and minds, muscles tensing as we prepare to take on...
Jan 11, 20211 min read
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193: 06/01/21
I sit here watching As they storm in Marching forward As the cops march back They scale the walls And someone holds zip cuffs They were...
Jan 8, 20211 min read
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192: Cleanse and Reclaim
I pick up a shell encrusted with corals and plan to bring it home. Let it sit in the window, between the basil and the fruit basket. The...
Jan 6, 20211 min read
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191: New Year's Resolutions
We clinked our champaign glasses and said "go to the gym once a week" "go on a diet" "read a book a day" "start an online course" "move...
Jan 4, 20211 min read
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190: To the Victims of the Silken Thread
A spider spins a weave over my bed, clambering with legs moving mechanically and I can almost imagine the taptaptap of claws tapping...
Dec 18, 20201 min read
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189: Caeneus the Transformed
He sits on the porch when the storm arrives, wind and rain hurling hail at his feet like heaps of pearls washed up by a raging sea to...
Dec 16, 20201 min read
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188: Blackfriars
A sea of glistering robes and bejewelled hands swarm up the stone staircase and into the theatre, oddly placed on the second floor of the...
Dec 14, 20202 min read
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187: The First Years of My Life
The first years of my life I slept in a hollow under a curl of ferns dripping with dew, eating blueberries straight from the heather with...
Dec 11, 20201 min read
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186: The Unknown Hour
The rumble shakes me awake and sends me stumbling across the room to unplug the charger. I sit in darkness and observe the hammering rain...
Dec 9, 20201 min read
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