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Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill Laswell: Drop Away

One listen. A lot of this came easy, but I feel like I was writing against the song in parts. It’s difficult for me to quantify, but I feel like that’s how I wrote. Jon Batiste, Chad Smith & Bill … Continue reading

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King Crimson: Sartori in Tangier

One listen. I don’t think I had much of anything for this one. I like what I wrote, but I also feel it drags. King Crimson’s “Sartori in Tangier” is from Beat. I hope you enjoy. — A sort of … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1442: Starting the Timer

Starting the timer, playing some Talk Talk. It’s a day. Or not. Just another day of work, and a quiet one before tomorrow, which is another day of work. Yesterday afternoon I went for a walk. It was quite hot … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1424: That’s all for later

Another day, and a warm one, and low money… until some point tomorrow, when it all starts flowing in as though I never had low money to begin with. Nothing changes, and everything changes, and drifting through and continuing on, … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1419: Writing to Warm up

You know, there’s a massive sense of relief that comes over when I get something out that has taken a long time. Actually, now I wonder if that is true. I think it’s true sometimes. Not all of the time, … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1298: Something to Follow

The day is done and yet it continues on. It shifts in colour as light disappears and soon it will be colourless in some spaces. In others there will be some sort of light still around and colour will gather … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1232: Wednesday Heaviness

Another day where the sound of cicadas stretches through space and I happen to be the recipient, or at least one of the recipients of this gift. In writing that I find myself now inspired to do a bit of … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1045: Stress Builds Up

And so it goes that stress builds up and then releases and the whole time you feel like a shitty person as you realised you fucked up pretty badly, but life goes on and you do your best to make … Continue reading

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Five-Hundred Word Challenge 1032: Little bit of Time

So I’m sitting at some café as I need to kill a little bit of time before I go somewhere else. It has been a busy morning and sometimes a busy morning is a good morning. Sometimes it is a … Continue reading

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A Racing Story

I’m once more engaging in NaNoWriMo. This was one of the things I’ve written for the event thus far and it was written under time constraints. Early on there was a shift in what I was writing. I had an … Continue reading

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