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we (and by we I mean Claire (the woman I swore (vow (we still vow, we still pledge ourselves, like honourable (‘honour you’, that’s a wedding vow (there’s that word ...
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On sunny afternoons, I go out to the street to eat tar.
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We swung in the wooden swing, creaking back and forth, or rocked in paint-pealing chairs while she and my parents talked of weather, war, politics, or relatives. Continue ...
His mother hovers over a pirate ship cake. The father loiters by the tea urn. Continue Reading Prepare to be Amazed
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Sharon was usually waiting for me outside her front door. She said the sound of the doorbell woke her dad up. It was a comfort that she was as I ...
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214 – Theodicy God is good. Bad things happen. Both of these things can be and often are true. But why does He let them happen? She remembers reading the ...
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Garrison and I sit in our chairs and watch the pale blue dot spin on the monitor. The pale blue dot spins on the monitor thirty times per minute. ...
When they came for him, I did not ask questions. Continue Reading For Rent: A Museum
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You are fourteen when your dad moves the family halfway across the country to a place called River View. The name is a broken promise: your flat looks out onto ...
a set somewhere hidden in Hollywood kept out of sight not because the filming was a flop no because it worked out only too well and has somehow in a ...
There was something incongruous about the man’s back. My eyes followed him around the bookshop. He was slim, of medium height, dressed in beige, classic-cut mackintosh, and charcoal trousers. Black, ...
On finding oneself Continue Reading Kali’s Tongue
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JJ Bola’s latest novel, The Selfless Act of Breathing, reviewed. Continue Reading BOOK REVIEW: THE SELFLESS ACT OF BREATHING
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