thinking since '98

this throwback is a bit more sombre. it's actually a piece i wrote for a competition a couple of years ago but you had to pay to be shortlisted and little broke kid me wasn't up for that. so here it is, enjoy: He told me to observe, so I did. I sat on the park bench just as the sky was turning...

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over at sailing through books, she runs a great monthly meme called "wifsy" that you can find out all about here (while you're there, check out her reviews - i've added many a book to my to-be-read because of her!). basically the gist of it is judging a book by its cover, so i've decided to give it a go this month with the...

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do you ever just want to restart? hold power button to turn off, no i don't want to save. back to when your skin had never been touched by lotion or cheap perfume. back to when your knees had never been scarred from crawling between trees. back to when your head had never been filled with these treacherous thoughts. before you built the...

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i never understood how people can be so obvious about their pain. how they wear sadness on their face as bold as a bloodstain. their movements lethargic and their shoulders turned down. i never understood how they could so easily frown. aren't you supposed to hide that all from the outside world? keep it bottled up inside you, leave it in your stomach...

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clouds are so weird. they're just these giant bundles of fluff way way up high. i mean, obviously there's a science behind them and their existence can be explained with two dollar words like vaporisation and orographic forcing, but to me they honestly don't even look real - they look like a painting of the sky by the gods where their hands slipped and the...

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