Oh, I wrote this last night when I was trying to get some sleep before my early-morning uni wednesday. It didn’t work, because I kept turning on the light when I had an idea I wanted to write down. It’s all in really bad hand writing too, but that’s nothing new. Read the rest of this entry »

A story I wrote on the plane coming back from NZ the other day. Bit rough, please enjoy.

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The thud was sudden and jarring, and the turbulence after. The high-flying albatross that hit the plane was an outlier, but one still important enough to impact the results of Mr. Hardling’s life. In the case of this unlikely emergency a bundle of informative pamphlets popped down on bungee strings from above. He opened the first one. It simply said;

NOW WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO ASSUME THE EMERGENCY BRACE POSITION

Underneath, in small print, please purchase the informative document ‘How to assume emergency brace position’ from your nearest flight attendant. RRP $2.00. Please ready correct change.

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It’s a golden window night
Not one to be alone
The seagulls sit together
The wind and the weather
My face stings warm, my body wrapped
Wind through the needles
My heart is cold and hears none of that
Children and Mother running
Running to their door
This night is too big for one man

I’ve neglected you.
I know, it hurts. I suppose I should have known too.
It’s only now, now that I’m back, that I see you, that it really sinks in.
I put a lot of work in to begin with, you know! You and I went really far together.
We did and saw some amazing things, you were so full of promise.
And then I got tired. I let you linger.

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I was a lucky kid when it came to food. Mum, until recently, wasn’t an outstanding cook, but she did well enough and threw in a bit of variety and we did eat out quite a bit and what with travelling to Asia quite often I’ve never had any problem with spicy food and things like that and find myself having problems with whoever does.

Up until recently there have been two foods which I’ve avoided throughout my life, even running hell-for-leather just to avoid eating them. I had some food phobias.

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