133 7 4
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young tourists from Latvia or Estonia take selfies and mug for the camera
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144 13 6
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These huddled souls could be a cult of fairytale scholars exiled to the area by unseasonal floods in Belarus...
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144 11 7
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A spasm rippled across your face as the dropping sun emphasized your bloodshot eyes. “More fool me,” you said, propping me back in the now upright pram and pushing it along towards the church gate.
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171 12 11
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I’ve quit my job and squirreled away a bit of cash to get me started. I’ll live with Eoghan Brady and some other Irish guys in a house in Harrow and Wealdstone.
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161 11 10
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In this glass your eye looms like the Cyclops, huge and bleary, the red veins like those that stick out of the beheaded turkey at Christmas before Mam cleans it up for stuffing.
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106 5 5
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My father’s ashes are still in the Jacob’s Kimberly Cream tin, weighed down by a pile of old manuscript pages from a novel that’ll never see daylight.
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156 10 8
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The back of the car was where all the words landed, all the sighing and weeping, all the bemoaning of the list of those who’d wronged you.
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1687 7 7
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Somehow, I have your body,
but you’ve gone missing.
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978 5 3
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773 6 6
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the moment he started walking
my hands were given new tasks to do:
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