CREATIVE WRITING

Overripe

By Muna Mir ‘You know I hated you when we first met.’  The confession excites me slightly. We’re walking through an overgrown field by the

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Portrait

By Rory McAlpine It consumes you, a dinner party such as this. You become no longer a person but an omnipresent host. You are the

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With Love, Frankie

By Matthew Dodd. In a deckchair under the late afternoon sun, he sat lazily writing in a worn leather pocketbook. A pale blue linen shirt

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How to Skim a Stone

By Tom Edgar Gertrude: Hamlet, thou hast thy father much offended. Hamlet: Mother, you have my father much offended. He stands on the Thames foreshore,

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Haar

  Haar: a cold sea fog, (colloquial Scottish).  Because no one can see what happens, happens among the Haar.   You find yourself along the coastline

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Cassis

By Tom Edgar There is a restaurant in Montmartre, a few hundred metres away from the Basilica of Sacré-Coeur, down a backstreet where the narrow

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On Advent’s Eve

Time enough has passed,
For my eyes and ears to cool,
For my willing hands to pick a pen
Whose nib begins to drool.

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The Absence of Closure

Wearing her like a suit
While having dinner with her friend
And wondering if I should undress
For when this night comes to an end,
Slide her off and hang her on a chair

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Card House

The ward was grey. In fact it was the most obscenely grey place I’d ever been in. The walls, the chairs, the tables, the signs, the clothes, really the only deviation was the dull flesh of the patient who was staring at me as I entered – looking through me as though I were glass.

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