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Leighton’s Desdemona
The painter with his cunning art Flattered and made you fair, And in your eyes put blue azure To show your beauty there.
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The 2022 Readcap: The Much Delayed Edition
Another year Reader, did you miss me? I kind of missed you, but to be frank, I’ve been busy hanging out with other projects. It’s not you Reader, it’s me. You deserve a writer who’s there for your needs more consistently. This isn’t me saying I want to break up, more that I want a…
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A Break in the Clouds
The half-moon in a speck of paint, A potato stencil stamp of white On thick cardstock, powder blue. The streaky clouds are pencil shavings Dusting the crenulations of the surface. The setting sun a pool of orange squash Seeping up the page. I sit below, alone in the office Whose walls are papered with books,…
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Extracts from my Dictaphone
click Idea for subversive post modern-sitcom; normal sitcom but every single character regardless of gender identity, race, size, screen time, narrative importance and number of feet wears wildly impractical high heels. This is never referenced in the text of the show. click click Idea for short story; two guards in a kind of Netheril or…
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Memory
That I have lived is evidenced In the marks the preceding years Have left on the visions of my memory.
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August Light
There is a kind of orange blazing sun above Split, refracted, and scattered by the clouds
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Statement Ends
All things must end Reader, and after 200 episodes, the fantastic horror podcast The Magnus Archives has come to a very satisfying one indeed. I started listening to Magnus at the end of it’s third season on the recommendation of Escape Pod editor Alisdair Stuart (who went on to play the twistedly reasonable Peter Lukas…
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