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Goddess Bless Us, Everyone! – Part Two
April spent her Christmas Eve in solitude. She enjoyed a long bubble bath before retiring to bed with her scriptures, and her tapes. The Garden had a long tradition of utilising strange recordings with subliminal messages to unlock their minds and their connection to their treasured Goddess Invierno, and as she had ascended to leadership,…
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Goddess Bless Us, Everyone! – Part One
Celia Jefferson was dead to begin with. There was no doubt whatever about that. As her daughter April sat by her resettled grave, surrounded by flowers that seemed to shine in the sheen of winter’s frost, the girl could only sigh. Old Celia was dead as a door-nail, and now, The Garden of The Free…
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Mr Bell
As a child, all that Beauregard had was his books. He’d run away from the orphanage several times a week, and the police would always find the boy in the town’s library, huddled over huge volumes, because he simply loved to read. His name had come from a book. His mother could not read, but…
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It Only Took One Ghost
I thought I might quit cigarettes and alcohol,just to see if I’d feel at all different,but the monkeys on my back are the only friends I have at 2am,when I’m thinking of the way the years just run away if you let them. The air was icy as I leant from my window,swaying with the…
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Compeyson
Too late to love you, through the aching annex, where your hollow heart sleeps, with nightmares of me. Twenty to nine, twenty to nine, twenty to nine. You’ll never be mine. The world on the shoulders, of the white wishes you wore. I could kiss apologies, on the long dead lips, soothe the scorched skin,…