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byBenMellor , journalism , love , rhyme , stanzas

Can you die of a broken heart?

Researchers have looked at what goes on in the brain, and for lovers and addicts it’s exactly the same. Those who are newly in love experien...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byDerekOwens , law , money , overheard , stanzas

Let's Bubble Up to the Surface and Smell the Numbers

now when things went south for you... and the value has obviously increased... that's my question where's the damage... assume that ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

advice , animals , byLindaGoulden , stanzas

One of my hermits is moulting

What should I do? Nothing. Moulters already have to suffer from stress. Disturbing them will make it worse. Place a cave over them to provid...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

blog , byAngiHolden , fear , list , stanzas

I'm afraid

I’m afraid of oncoming trains and that feeling right before a train approaches and the wind is all around you, when you have no choice but t...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byDawnCorrigan , journalism , sex , stanzas

Man Adrift

He felt at times as if he were still in the Navy, adrift on the sea, peering down through the vents the way he used to squint through binocu...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byJamesTreat , interview , stanzas

Until the Frost Hit

I. indian medicines were made from roots and herbs boneset which the creeks called angelica was used for a purgative and likewise bu...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

asylum seekers , byLauraMcKee , facebook , migration , stanzas

each one of us is in a different place

I keep thinking about what  is happening to us are we going to die God forbid are we going to arrive if we arrive what will happen this is w...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

age , byDawnCorrigan , magazine , stanzas

Dementia

I am nothing. You are right. I’m like someone who’s been thrown into the ocean at night. Floating all alone, I reach out, but no one's t...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byDawnCorrigan , magazine , sea , stanzas

Man overboard

I find myself, in my plush seat, going farther and farther away, sort of creatively visualizing an epiphanic Frank Conroy-type moment of my ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

advert , byHowieGood , list , stanzas , writing

Hell is a State of Mind

I am a man at home folding my wife’s delicates. Outside, there’s a ruckus, as usual. It begins with the flies. Noisy, black flies. I do not ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byAngelaReadman , food , letter , magazine , stanzas

I'm a Nurse with a Vice

off duty without a friend, a hobby to console me, or the price of a cinema ticket, what can I do? I enter a little shop down the road, furti...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byAngelaReadman , food , letter , shopping , stanzas

Woman to woman

I know I am not the only woman in the world with a sort of hurt feeling about fruit shops. The windows are always so full of delicious looki...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , death , last words , quotation , stanzas

The Shores of Tripoli

1 Never sell the bones of your father and mother. Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for. The bastards tried to come over me...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byGabrielSmy , captions , news , photography , stanzas

The burn

Boredom makes us do it, that and the chase. The sun whitens the grass until it's ripe to burn and then we light it, watch and wait. The ...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

advert , byAnnaPercy , magazine , stanzas

Do You Have?

week one: pattern for knitted swimming trunks will pay postage week two: Record by The Turtles She’s Rather Be With Me willing to pay all co...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

byHowieGood , science , speech , stanzas

Scientific American

You sink into their brains a little socket with a screw on it and the electrode can then be screwed deeper and deeper into the brainstem, an...

historis 15 Jun, 2021

advert , byVictoriaBean , sex , stanzas

THIS IS NOT A LOVE THING - The Harlot’s Progress 2014

1. Arrival in London Boy have you been a lucky girl new in town and everybody’s darling: love, desire and a tender touch always has the boy...

historis 15 Jun, 2021