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Making time: RUST revisited
Bexley, United Kingdom
The universal time measurement system is here. Set your clocks to RUST.
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Queen Bea
City of London, United Kingdom
Flash fiction about three generations of the same family gathered around the hospital bedside of a centennial matriarch.
Read more >Moving mountains…
City of London, United Kingdom
She stood on the mountain top and surveyed the horizon. She knew not how she had come to be here but her condition told her that the journey had been long and arduous.To the left showed the familiar landscape which she had come to know, to the right stood uncertainty and trepidation. She stood…
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The Old Man, What I See
City of London, United Kingdom
The Old Man under observation is an after-thought. No one notices him anymore. Moving slowly between the toilet and his regular seat at the social club, an entire village in the Swansea Valley ignores his aging body. The village knows his old face. The village knows his old stories. The village leaves him alone, but he spends his day scribbling in a book about ‘black cumin’. He’d appear busy if anyone bothered to look.
Read more >Life - Short story - Romance
How to Fight Loneliness
City of London, United Kingdom
An irreverent and borderline illegal fight against being alone, under-employed and unloved in contemporary London.
Read more >Life - Short story - Humour
The Unshakeable Decency of Trees
City of London, United Kingdom
A quick story about the sublimation of lost love. Nature hears Steven’s heartbroken lament and comes to facilitate his healing in the strangest of ways.
Read more >maple black
Croydon, United Kingdom
a short song from a collection of stories called self destruct.
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