Mountain pressure
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Ups and downs and winter birds singing around them. The pine trees’ scent, the wind in the needles above and around them.
Noel Murphy
It comes to some of us in the End
Tom ‘Bopper’ Keys was returned unto the earthly Earth. That much was certain.
Barleycorn Buildings
The start of the novel that ever had the chance to end.
Janssen Stand Down!
Imagine a place full of people making laws who have no idea what it’s like to be hungry or cold? That would be stupid.
Fat Man
Then he stripped to red-ochre painted nakedness and drank a bottle of gin to wash down a rattle of amphetamines.
The outer space restaurant review
“Bawbags”, she whispered. “Now what?”
He thought he was a Christ
A man, his cat, a burglary.
The dreadful Msr Loussiere
1919 was the year that changed it all.
To you all. You know who you are!
The thing with Curran was that he was forever leaving notes about the place. The beginnings of poems and stories, rehearsals for suicide notes. Oftentimes you simply couldn’t tell exactly what he meant.
A Rank Sandwich in Bolton – Part 1: before the Murder
You would never have believed that she’d been one of the first female pilots in the RAF back in the day, but she fell out with the military.
Haring down the hill
He sat in the churchyard, feeling the fag packet in his pocket. He didn’t want to go home where all his relatives would have arrived in black, coughing into sandwiches and mini sausage rolls. They’d try tell him stories about his dad, pretending they knew his dad better than they did.