The purple is spreading up my hands, a webbed map of the blood thickening in my veins.  My fingers are grey and seizing at the joints, the tips darker still.  I can’t feel the leads of the dogs in my hands, and it’s only when I look that I see the straps aren’t […]

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“The world doesn’t need anymore photographers.  It doesn’t need any more lawyers.  It doesn’t need any more shop assistants.  Unless you’re the new messiah, shit diamonds or secreting the cure for AIDS out of your nipples, you are nothing original and totally redundant.”
The entire hall shuffled and there were a few brief nervous laughs.  […]

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I watch people die nearly every week, if I’m lucky anyway. Sometimes it’s two or three times a week, but during the holidays the numbers go up which evens out the average. Just off the middle seems to be the best place to sit and wait, right between two blue signs asking […]

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Her belly was soft, and hung over the top of her jeans like a short apron made of rancid butter.  Joel followed her slow progress up the tree with the carrier bag over one shoulder, the handles pulling long and thin from the weight.
On a wide branch wrapped in a two year layer of […]

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Alice had grown up with and so had had plenty of time to get used to having a sentient and moody vagina, but it could still be a completely pain.  Sometimes quite literally in the arse when it clenched up petulantly and he had to improvise.  Tonight looked like it was going to be […]

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The retriever leaned in with every turn Annabel made with the truck, licking his lip as his body tipped and strained.  They’d passed the dog park ten minutes ago and the turn-off for the next one a little after that so he wasn’t whining anymore.  Annabel hissed breath through her teeth and scrubbed her […]