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Solstice – 100 words

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Solstice   We grow like plants towards the light – straining, strong, blood-sap rising, our vein-visible leaf-tips fluttering up, reaching, rushing, straight overhead, meeting beating down sun at its highest, balanced and bringing fire to earth – a smouldering manifestation of living energy.   My growing, glowing plant centre can sense the neck-cricking pull to […]

Dear Younger Self – 100 words

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Dear Younger Self It won’t turn out the way you expect. And it’ll be a whole lot easier if you start with this advice, which you’ll ignore. Here goes anyway… You are worth it – you don’t need to prove it. The effort in earning love from people who don’t deserve it is exhausting and […]

The Bomb – 100 words

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The bomb A person is only organs, electricity and water, carried in a bag of skin, stuffed with preferences and love, stories and regrets: a life compressed. Yet, sometimes you think you’re nothing important, one speck of humanity in the brutal desert of history. Who’d even notice …?   Know there will be an explosion […]

Play – 100 words

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Play   Children splash in puddles, see how far their snot stretches, shout louder than lions. It’s vital, educational, expressing themselves, letting off steam Until they learn that sitting still is better than finding equilibrium on a single chair leg, and silence is preferable to yodelling. ‘Thank you very much,’ and ‘please may I?’ get […]