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The Christmas Album

These songs have travelled with me through many seasons of faith, family, and quiet worship. Some are centuries old, some more recent, and one is my own. This album is...

The Girl on the Bridge 12.04.19

A girl stands on a bridge. Below her speeds the dual carriageway, running fast into the future she doesn’t want to meet....

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The Neighbours’ Dog 07.10.19

Please be the neighbours’ dog… please be the neighbours’ dog… Crazy the thoughts that go through the exhausted parental mind. This was...

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A funny cartoon about Quentin Tarantino

I pray he doesn’t get COVID-19. I just thought spoonerizing his name was funny!

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No Means No

NO = NO If you (say) kNOw, you (mean) kNOw. … If you know, you know.

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Confession… or The Rules of Writing

I don’t think there are any rules. Just fall in love with writing. I just sent this message to an acquaintance. I...

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Threads

Hello! It’s Monday the 28th of November 2011. It’s quite cold, so we have the heating on. So Saturday was november 26th....

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Like the Proverbial 28.08.2020

Like the proverbial She sits Hateful as one With a silly sardonic smile She makes saints cuss She has stained the glass...

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The Neighbours’ Dog

Please be the neighbours’ dog… please be the neighbours’ dog… Crazy the thoughts that go through the exhausted parental mind. This was...

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Permission

On 16th January this year I finally realised this: I don’t need the permission of my abusers; they never sought mine. It’s...

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COVID-19

Maybe we thought it would go away. The two industrial-grade face masks I bought at a business expo three weeks ago seemed...

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Surviving Africa

All along I thought I was supposed to come here. Meeting Laban and Alice when I was five or six years old....

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