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It had
happened again. She knew as she pushed open her heavy eye lids, still filled
with sleep and dreams, that the room she found herself in wo..
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She was doing the front crawl when it
happened. Her fifteenth lap up and back again, fighting against the cool water
and its deep ripples she had..
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Lying
in this thick darkness we’ll call the night
in bed alone; except for you beside me.
The midnight masks what I can’t see,
but as ..
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The silent drops of silver fall,
gently, hardly not at all.
They brush my window, kiss my pain,
their patterns seem to hush my name.
I crave the d..
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‘Just five years old’, he shook his head,
And read the words inscribed in gold.
‘Another flesh to turn to dust,
Ano..
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My neighbour across the
road is a pervert; I see him watching me from his back garden as I’m getting
undressed. He doesn’t try and hide ..
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The boy sat smoking a cigarette. The sharp, cold
air hitting his face every now and then, reminding him he was alive. He hadn’t
meant to smoke..
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Growing
older is like the passing of seasons "
The leaves turning brown, like hair turning grey.
The chill in the air, like a shiver..
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Thick green shirts; the cotton’s cheap and
mass-made for purpose
each with a string of numbers, five digits in bold black ink on the pocket
..
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