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By: Ian Patt

Most of you, my online friends, have heard about the recent fine which has been unfairly levied against my program. Do any of you really know the backstory though? I mean really know it? You can’t trust what you read on the message boards. You just can’t.

I had a guy tell me the only difference between a h...


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By: Peter J. Dellolio

It Was A Matter Of Lust

It was a matter of
lust in spite of those
dapper fellows without
the electric chair so
we pleaded and were needed
in spite of scarecrows wearing
oxygen masks in Damascus.

Nectarines Rubbed

Nectarines rubbed nocturnal spasm.
Ancient thoughts.
Who is in th...


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By: Ian C Smith

I wanted to defeat time visiting the boyhood manor of my father, that remote relation, who fled the travails of his life by emigrating. Envisaging touring his biography that nobody would write I thought, so old, yet desirable, at his former address, like much of time-worn urban England. Slums had transitioned through worki...


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By: Snigdha Agrawal

The little girl…
now grown up
somewhere in her forties
still remembers Dadi
crushing her favourite candy
with a mortar and pestle,
because her dentures,
refused to stay fixed
like party switchers
eager to please.

Nothing could tempt her
towards “Fairaro”
or those silver-foiled...


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By Stephen Alexander

A meme circulating social media shows a wedding photo of pop superstar Dua Lipa and actor Callum Turner. The caption reads, “Everything I ask God for, He triples and gives to Dua Lipa.” The joke is that it is preposterous to consider just how glamorous Dua Lipa’s life appears.

I found myself pondering that...


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