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Running Blind by William Thompson

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My mother thinks I should run. She tells me this in the living room. She is folding laundry. […]

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Not Our Cat by Paul Shacksmyth

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I paint the shed a gun metal blue and fix the rotten wooden panels at the base where […]

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Three Flashes Pieces by Dan Melling

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NOSE The first time I remember having a nose, I was young. I probably had one before that […]

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I Never Had a Mother by Ailsa Cox

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My mother never had a mother. That’s what she always says, I never knew what it was to […]

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Review: Memoirs by Tennessee Williams

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The way I most often describe Tennessee Williams’ memoirs to people is in emphasising the feeling that Williams […]

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Heatwave by Robert West

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I was eleven and Chris was twelve. Taking the lead, he squeezed through a gap in the fence […]

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One Hundred Reasons by Gina Bernard

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I sat behind you in human sexuality class, the curled ridge of your ear exposed. If I had […]

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Night Walks by Ciara McVeigh

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My father drove a taxi for 27 years. From 11am to mid-afternoon, he worked. A break for dinner […]

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I’ll Be At The Quarry ’til Sundown by Lydia Unsworth

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I worked on a quarry for two weeks shortly after my thirty-second birthday. It both was and wasn’t […]

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Henry In The Departure Lounge by Ingrid Persaud

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Trinidadian Hindus contend that a direct correlation exists between the combustion rate of a body on a funeral […]

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