'Howard comes back to bed from the bathroom. The alarm clock reads 11:39. Couldn’t have been that long, he thinks. At least ten minutes are missing. He turns on the bedside lamp and sees them skittering on the floor.'
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- David Henson
Still not reading subs - head clearing slowly but focus still mushy. Hope to be on it later this week
Sorry for delay in processing Subs - I have a cough/cold and don’t think my concentration is up to par. Am waiting so I can read them with the discerning eyes they deserve
'I keep wishing that the hairdresser from Portland, Oregon, who I’ll likely never meet, could be bottled and spritzed'
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@amymarques.bsky.social
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@tomljanovic.bsky.social
'The spine erupted from the world in jagged shale shards. Skeletal remains of the sleeping giant. Its toe—the foothills of our home. We live underground burrowing through its veins.'
Neither fish nor foul 📖
@sarahoakeskraken32.bsky.social
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'The third little pig knew she had to move out. She couldn't live in her parents’ house forever. She was losing her sight and needed somewhere more accessible.'
'Where the chemist used to be, there is now a concrete fence with a mobile money advertisement painted on it in red. Where Mama Chisom sold akara from her blue plastic basin, rubble slopes into a drainage channel.'
- Samuel Kozah
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'I couldn’t bring myself to get rid of my husband Henry, he was a habit after all, so I put him on a strict diet of seeds, bits of fruit and veg, with mealworms as a treat for good behaviour, hoping he’d lose enough weight to fit into a small cage.'
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'Mum says a flittermouse got in. Don’t tell them nurses.
Wants me to believe her fairy tales. Not under her bed, behind nightstand, bookcase, inside closet, amongst curtains. Not roosting in the ensuite.' @jennygaitskell.bsky.social
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'She avoided direct line of sight, always, preferring to make her approach over or around obstacles. Whenever we went out I had a constant sense she was peering over my head at something more interesting ...' @summermoth.bsky.social
