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Feast

I dreamed a dream of a place I’ve dreamed before. A small house on the riverbank, the street-facing portion obscured by what once was a barn and now looked to…

Caymanaymans

I had just returned from some kind of an RPG convention where we’d been camping and doing LARP outdoors when it was nice and playing tabletop games indoors when it…

The Last Thing

Grief is an oscillation between want and have, between need and want, between here and gone. It does strange things to a person. When my mother died I kept saying…

Dreamlet

A friend had invited me to the ‘viewing’ of their first grandchild in a community centre, or maybe in the common room of a condo complex. The new baby was…

Olfactory Sense

I was cleaning the bed linens this morning, which always accompanied a spraying down of the mattress with hydrogen peroxide & essential oils (no, not lavender; I don’t especially like…

Pride

June is Pride month, a time when we recognise some of the glorious human diversity in the world. We celebrate being able to be openly who we are, and specifically,…

Labour

There comes a point when a woman is labouring in childbirth when she says “I can’t do this”. Usually that’s a hallmark of what’s called transitional labour, and it usually…

40 years

‪Some anniversaries we don’t need to remember. ‬ ‪My Da just called to remind me that it was 40 years ago today that his father, my Gramps, was killed in…

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