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Tippy Taps
It all started with the knocking. Soft, rhythmic tapping from inside the bedroom wall, like a heartbeat coming through the plaster. All I could do was lie frozen under the covers, my heart in the back of my throat. The room was as silent as breath withheld and near pitch black besides the soft light…
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The 8:25 to Piccadilly & Making Scrambled Eggs in the Quest for Perfection.
The train is late again. Not catastrophically late — the kind of late that reminds you that you’re not really in control though. You’re not getting sacked, your boss won’t even pull you in for an unofficial word about your timings, but it’s the sort of delay that makes you question why you even bother…
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Viewing the World Through the Lens of my Beanie.
The moment I realised I was depressed was when I twigged it had been over two weeks since anybody had seen my hair. Sometime in Autumn, I realised that, instead of spending 15-30 mins lathering expensive, faintly peach-smelling products in my hair, I could just throw a beanie on in the morning and stay in…
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Everything Went Downhill The Day I Stopped Playing Flash Games
I’ll bet, if everybody thinks hard enough for long enough, most everybody will be able to pinpoint a moment where their childhood started to come to an end. Becoming an adult is something we all have to do. Yes, the long and winding road to adulthood is often fraught and full of pitfalls and hazards…
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On Home Plate
We all had a fun summer but it’s over now. The rest of our life begins now — Autumn is here, the leaves are falling. Soon the sun and the heat will become darkness and shivers, and and all we can do is wrap up warm and put our coats on. Somebody I know died…
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A Tumble and a Trip
Bong. Bong. Bong. Life has ups. Life has downs. Life even has middles (they’re less interesting). The reality of life though is that you will have days of soaring happiness; days where the wind beneath you makes the sensation of flying high feel like it will last forever. Then you’ll inevitably have days where it…
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Time Travel
For centuries scholars and science-fiction fans have wondered whether time travel could be possible. Is it? Almost certainly not, obviously. But I can sort of pretend if I let my eyes blur and my mind wander. From the outside looking in it might seem a little weird, a little pointless, a little like a waste…
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When Life Gives You Lemons
It’s two o’clock in the morning, I am alone. I’m in the front room of the ninth floor flat I moved into last month, sat on the floor tucked away in a little nook beside the sofa next to a window. If anybody walked in they would just see some slightly lanky legs sticking out…
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Women are from Venus and men are complicit in normalising sexual assault
Darkness creeps around me, I’m sat up in bed, the room around me is shrouded in darkness and the only source of light is emanating from my laptop, the only noise the taps of a keyboard. I’m one of those people who likes to leave their blinds shut, I only use my bedroom to sleep…
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Caging rabbits
When is a cage a prison, and when is it a chance for a fresh start? Morning, it’s April, it’s 9:47am, I just woke up and all I can hear is noise, a wall of noise on what was supposed to be my day off. I’m lying in bed, the blinds drawn shut with just…
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