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portrait of a woman (picture perfect #2)
Portrait of a woman seated in a garden I love this photograph. I love how smooth it all is, & the selective focus – the smoothness is a fairly common characteristic of old photographs (I’m not sure...
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flash fiction #1
So I was thinking about what to post up here, and I thought of these 500-word stories I wrote a few years ago, in the summer between sixth form and university, and how I’d never done much with them. I...
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flash fiction #2
Yesterday I posted the first of my two flash-fictions about a girl sitting in the park. Here’s the second of the two – I think I prefer it, although other people tend to prefer the first. I wrote this...
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i have to go when the whistle blows
early morning at new cross station by chrisphin I spend a lot of time on trains. No, really. Between living four hours away from my boyfriend when I’m not at university (and he lives a train-ride away...
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cat posed with mexican serape (picture perfect #3)
[Cat posed with Mexican serape] | Flickr – Photo Sharing!. This photograph is from circa 1860. It’s such an early photograph – only a few decades after photography was invented, after the deaths of...
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art deco advertising, sydney, 1930s (picture perfect #4)
Art Deco advertising, Sydney, 1930′s / Sam Hood | Flickr – Photo Sharing! If you want to know the stylistic development of culture and pop culture in the 20th century and you don’t have that much...
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what’s making me happy this week – podcast edition
One of the first posts I made on this blog was a list of the best the podcasts I’d listened to in 2010 – at the end of it, I mentioned the podcasts I wanted to listen to in the year ahead, and asked...
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short story: madeline
Towards the end of January, I posted a couple of very short stories that I wrote a few years ago. I haven’t been posting much recently because of essays and extended essays and reading and stuff, and...
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noli me tangere
I’ve been having trouble writing recently. My degree is in English Language & Literature, and there’s no creative writing element. Fine, traditional, why should I need to study creative writing...
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modern bedrooms with ancient problems
I feel like it’s time to start my blog again. So here’s a short, edited piece that I originally posted in rough form on my Goodreads account about an issue raised (kind of) in a short ebook I read...
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