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

Pete’s ode to the trauma of putting together your flatpack furniture.

A truly moving piece – it had the room completely silent, transfixed.

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

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If I look hard enough it will go away.
So I sit and I stare.
This morning I prayed for forgiveness.

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Cath: Sorry for talking with my mouth full.
Matt: Yes, I’m sorry too, we’re kissing you see.
Cath: I’m Cath.
Matt: I’m Matt and we are a carefully, cleverly sculpted piece of marble.
Cath: It’s true. We are sculpture and we are marble but we are also ‘Kiss’, by Marc Quinn.

Rachel reads from her short story ‘Passing Through’.
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We thought it was a fitting start to the very first Words Aloud. Click the video to play.

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I was feeling very strange. My fantasy meats had only led me further off into the distances. I went out and sat on the wall around the veranda and listened to the sounds of night.
“Sit back and let the evening go,
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely, Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely,
Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Heart’s Club Band”
Someone sat down beside me [...]

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It’s 8.44 p.m. on this still and empty stage. There isn’t much air in here and the little that there is, is saturated with the stale smell of cigarette smoke and sugary ale. I can taste it on the back of my coated tongue. My throat and eyes are so dry that they itch. I [...]