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Fiction. Raleigh 500 by David Lambert. Image: the silhouette of a man riding his bike through incoming traffic, while another man calls to him.

fiction: Raleigh 500

raleigh 500 Reading time: about 10 minutes I saw him in the Aldi checkout queue adjacent to mine. He must have been in his late eighties, very large framed, in a childlike striped tee-shirt, a large man all hunched over. There was a sallowness about his eyes. Onto the conveyor he placed a twelve-pack of […]

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Poetry. Those enivronmentally inaccessible neanderthal caves of include me nevada. Colin James. Image: a silhouette of a desert with an opening washing machine in the middle.

poetry: Those Environmentally Inaccessible Neanderthal Caves of Include Me Nevada

Those Environmentally Inaccessible Neanderthal Caves of Include Me Nevada Evidence of our forebears’    cliff cave pollution spreads.    From way up here    an irregular series of white dots.    Closer examination reveals    old washing machines, dryers    left out to soak up some sun.    If you listen carefully    below the

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Poetry. Hole by Nancy Iannucci. Image: the word 'hole' with the letter 'o' entirely blacked out.

poetry: Hole

Hole What would Emily say if she could see the movie adaptations of Wuthering Heights? Would she think Hardy was the proper Heathcliff, more so than Fiennes or Dalton? Would she accept Emma Mackey’s portrayal of her in Emily? I wonder what she would think of Kate Bush yowling on the moors in a red

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