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The Gods by Richard Crowther

May 11th, 2008 | No Comments

The Gods by Richard Crowther

Upon the brink of epiphany / stands the once cherished / emperor of youth now witness


The Single Gentleman by Pat Rogers

April 1st, 2008 | No Comments

The Single Gentleman by Pat Rogers

You can’t get a signal for a mobile in my local Morrisons [...]


In Front of Others by Derville Quigley

April 5th, 2007 | No Comments

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Bad timing it was. When we first met, drunk and falling. That didn’t seem good. You looked at me glassy-eyed but I saw hope in that reflection and d’you know something? I needed it badly.
I wanted to be more to you that night you shook me.
“Shag me”, you said.
That wasn’t going to happen [...]


The Dreaming by Rob Wheeldon

March 8th, 2007 | 2 Comments

The Dreaming by Rob Wheeldon

Some years ago a group of wise men set forth on a rowing boat along the river of life


The Cowboy by Iain Broome

February 8th, 2007 | 1 Comment

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Big John Galway drives a Triple Seven on an opencast coal site; three or four times the size of a lorry and basically an oversized dump truck. He’s six foot four or five and built like a brick shit house.
He swears a lot, although like most people who swear a lot, never [...]