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The Day of Awakening

The standpipe shed drops of water in to a concrete pond built in a traditional box shape. For my family Continue reading →

The Owl and the Pussycat

By Louis Rive- The weather gathered ominously over the sickly streets and the rain gradually unlocked the hidden smells incumbent Continue reading →

Sport

By Louis Rives Sport was an odd thing in school, a semi-mandatory year wide expose of everyone’s physical ineptitude. For Continue reading →

£3.50

By Louis Rive Everyone had jobs as paperboys. Trekking aimlessly through the Edinburgh winter with Ikea catalogues and double-glazing sales Continue reading →

You see Bambi, I see antlers on the wall…

By Blake Rackley November 5th, 2011, 5am. I was woken by my friend’s dad. I didn’t get out of bed Continue reading →

Chapter 6: No battle is ever won. (1984)

By Alyssa Lindley Kilzer Richard I found out the next day. The police came down to my house, took my Continue reading →

Eliot

By Emily McKay Eliot struggled with the meaning of life from a very early age.  He had been conceived only Continue reading →

Chapter 5: Testimony: This House of Bones (1975)

By Alyssa Lindley Kilzer Robert I don’t know when my Pa took his first drink, but as soon as Grampa Continue reading →

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