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Forever Young
The ocean’s wild and untamed waves harmonised with the relentless wind as night fell. Night arrived so much earlier in winter and Hamish found it unsettling. There was a lot that Hamish found unsettling, and if he had things his way, he would never have joined the family business with his older brother. Hamish had…
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The Butterflies Are Coming
She is going to die. My girlfriend is going to die. I’m not going to kill her, it will be the butterflies. It is happening tonight. I know this now. I have been trying to find a way to stop it, but I think it is impossible. It’s too late for her, but maybe, it…
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Northlay Falls – Chapter Two
My mother didn’t say a word all day after that ominous mumble. “He dined early this month.” I followed her into the kitchen and watched her as she began washing the breakfast dishes, pouring the porridge she had made for Ray and I in the bin, just carrying on as if her son was just…
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Eyes In The Portrait
There’s a new ghost in my gallery,peering from the frames of all my paintings,her stare, so accusatory,as she watches me with my wife’s soft hair,twirled around troubled fingertips,lips lost in a lullaby that lasts all night,ignorant of the rising sun and the expectation for a woman’s place to be in the kitchen, rather than underneath…
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Gwrach y Rhibyn
She calls out his name, tender terror, soft and sweet. She wants to save him, her hand dangling from the dark, reaching into the realms that death doesn’t dare, an impossibly placed omen, owing nothing to anybody, but holding them by their collars, by their souls, with no gratitude, shielding their eyes from the certain…
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Sincerely, Jennifer x 