Category Archives: literature

What’s the point..?

Posted on June 21, 2008 by blogmywiki

Today I was killing time while my sons had their swimming lesson. I walked around the outside of the pool with my daughter. As we got ready to go back inside I heard a man say to his young son … Continue reading →

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In watermelon sugar the deeds were done…

Posted on May 21, 2008 by blogmywiki

Just took my Richard Brautigan anthology off the shelf and it looks like I haven’t read it in a while. The bookmark is one of the strips of paper BBC World Service studio managers used to write their shifts down … Continue reading →

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The Tree that Couldn’t Grow Leaves

Posted on May 13, 2008 by blogmywiki

(another short story, I’m afraid… look away) Winterlong the tall tree stood shoulder-to-shoulder with all the other trees beside the busy road that snaked through the forest. The tree spent the short days watching the ebb and flow of the … Continue reading →

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An Imagined Affair – Part 3

Posted on May 2, 2008 by blogmywiki

PART THREE OF THREE Back in the cheap cafe. KEVIN: Hello. You’re late. MARTIN: Yes. Sorry. Very hard to get way some times. The editor is doing his nut for the summer issue, there’s a special pull-out section on… KEVIN: … Continue reading →

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An Imagined Affair – Part 2

Posted on May 1, 2008 by blogmywiki

PART TWO A week later. Interior, fairly posh restaurant. Kevin is sitting alone at a table talking quietly into his mobile phone. KEVIN: …no, well I have to say it went very well. I think you’ll be pleasantly surprised by … Continue reading →

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