after the meal when they sat the three of them tiny people & they emptied their pockets to see what they had brought back from the beach: geenie had a shell that looked like a dinosaur eating his own tail, she said. tommy had a stone which contained a dark secret, he said. lara had …
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texts that are created on the edge of a precious precipice
a dark secret
May 24, 2009 – 6:06 am
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By flawnt
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Posted in storiesFromtheEdge
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Tagged beach, novel, robot kids
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listen
The child sits at the lake shore and everything is happening around him. Not some things, all things, all the time and at the same time. He puts out his tongue in the sun under the clear blue sky. My tongue feels funny against the sky. I touch the sand and the sand touches me …
teddy & tart
i would love to take a short trip to london with you where i lived for a number of years. but i cannot even afford a single weekend away from my chores. i feel like sitting on the back of a horse gallumphing through an ice storm, crystals freezing solid on my face which maintains …
February 20, 2009 – 7:17 pm
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Tagged easyjet, escort, hotel, london, marx, tart, teddy
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ghosts on the ice
well, did you know that i am the grandchild of an inuit shaman? we lived in newfoundland then, close to the edge of the ice. there were any number of ghosts there. no, not just stories, the real thing. there were shiny spectres, spiritual bums, ancient heroes, and also some ancestors with unfinished ends hanging …
February 15, 2009 – 12:38 pm
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Tagged bear, family, ghost, ice, inuit, newfoundland, shaman, tigress, tribe
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@franki_
.. may still go to #hollywood. the other day, i took a plane from hollywood down to cape town to visit @franki_ a girl who followed me via twitter, the latest and greatest in international memetic travel. we had to settle an underscore, so obstinately positioned after her name, so i took my french foil, …
February 8, 2009 – 7:35 pm
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By flawnt
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Posted in storiesFromtheEdge
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Tagged @franki_, @stephenfry, africa, capetown, iguana, pangloss, pioneer, space, twitter, voltaire
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