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Creative Writing / 22/09/2020 A Walk on the Beach

The beach is my haven, where I can go to remember. I go when my home becomes too full of melancholy memories. Usually they build up slowly, but today the thoughts are unrelenting. Because they’re the impossible ones. The if-only’s, continually questioning me. I stare at the rectangular box in my hand, the engagement photo...

Creative Writing / 22/09/2020 A Pier Outstretched into an Ocean

Reached through the ocean, ran through the reef – stopped where the waters turned dark, into the unknowable. We were just kids then: five-, ten-, twelve-year-olds; fingers grasped around the chilled silver railings in front. The wind brought clouds of tortuous form inwards, with full bellies and colours that cracked this spurious visage. We could...

Creative Writing / 04/08/2020 A modern house built on grey clouds

Old hoping thing Go gently now On those dark nights, Where rats huddle in the garden’s compost heap To hide with empty thoughts. Billowing across the street, a black hand demanding answers clutching on to the houses. Trying to rip the windows out of their frames, To leave them choking in a watery mess on...

Creative Writing, Venue / 04/08/2020 Hectic

Hectic. That’s the only word I have for today. Sure, it’s been in the works for months – I signed the agreement weeks ago – but nothing can prepare you for the moment the once empty, internet-trapped room becomes your castle. Billy cried this morning. He – and I quote – wanted to know why...

#BLM, Creative Writing, Venue / 30/06/2020 Just Platonic?

There are relationships doomed to suffer, and relationships that make suffering. Like a cop who kisses his gun at night and lays it under his pillow. The only Black he dares to touch is the butt of his precinct-funded revolver; he tends her like a prized cow raised for slaughter, cocking his perverse killing machine....

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Indoors / Outdoors

‘Don’t leave the back door open! You’ll bring the outdoors in!’ Mum used to say / still says, yet part of me wanted to let it all fall in, turn our lace and dress to petal, let moths wear our shirts to dust let ivy climb our cream kitchen walls and spread out, make a…

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When This is Over

Son, when all this is over you will remember there’s an entire world out there that you have never explored, so you will run around and meet other kids and play tag and fill your lives with laughter, and this house will be a home once more instead of prison walls or some fortified tower…

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Little Things

I spend my days in four rooms, spread over two floors, no garden. It’s enough for me. The house has its quirks; leaky taps, a shower that doesn’t quite work, oddly coloured carpets and a dodgy boiler system. Yet for all this it anchors me because I know these 4 walls will still stand tall…

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Outdoors

There’s a global pandemic, they say. Stay inside. No none essential travel allowed. No driving to nice places. No leaving the house. The fear sets in. Everyone stock piles, rushing to buy as much food and toiletries as they can. And then. Nothing. No motorways packed with back to back vehicles. No cars being used…

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Badminton

No older than seven, Dad asked us to find his net, the old practice badminton net he used and won his old leagues with, and he smiled, thinking of us working up to the same league and winning in the same cold court he lost in. Eager to help but not knowing how, my brother…

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cattle grid

the cows and we share a crossing perpendicular. you have to close the gate so they can cross the cattle grid. in summer the council puts stickers on the posts saying ‘thank you for closing the gate’ but we still don’t. the cyclists careen through, wheels rattling on the grid. the cows, when they come,…

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Creative Writing / 22/09/2020 A Walk on the Beach

Creative Writing / 22/09/2020 A Pier Outstretched into an Ocean

Creative Writing / 04/08/2020 A modern house built on grey clouds

Creative Writing, Venue / 04/08/2020 Hectic

Creative Writing, Venue / 04/08/2020 My Illness Has Teeth

#BLM, Creative Writing, Venue / 30/06/2020 Just Platonic?