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The Ballad of Jack Racket
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Cosmic love kinda guy | Student of sunlight on the water | Phobes of all stripes get off of my lawn | Bad photography, worse prose, shitty art | Short stories at:

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carp with mouth open in algae water
October 20, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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Werewolves!

‘There’s a lot of things in the universe I don’t know anything about. I saw a statue of a saint that wept orange blossom water once so…I’m not saying this guy is a werewolf, I’m just not saying he ain’t.’

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Wolfsbane
Even before I get off the boat the gulls are pinwheeling, screaming their war cry over the water, warning me this is their place. I’m an irritating splinter of humanity pricking their skins as I ho…
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October 13, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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‘Anyhow, Honk is starting to strip off in his ant-like jitters and no amount of snake-charming can hide his body like a gibbet covered in skin; something plant-like about him, so slim and weedy.’

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Just Swell
‘Look, man, look at the sea!’ Honk starts yelling away. I’m so sleep-deprivation drugged, loose as a bad wheel nut without my coffee but I wait, listening to one of my favourite noises …
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October 12, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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There’s an eluded life within
October 12, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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Enough with "I'm running on COMMON SENSE values." I want absurd values. Clowns on every train. Possum cops. The government pays in live goats. Worms in every gas tank. A war on clouds. It can't go any wronger than what we've already got going on, here.
July 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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🌹Ave, Maria🌹
A photo of a statue of the Virgin Mary in purple and yellow, the colours split diagonally in a kind of pop art way.
October 8, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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‘The 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘭𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 was the first book to be banned by the papacy, more than fifty years before the creation of the Index of Prohibited Books.’

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Erin Maglaque · Thishereness: Pico in Purgatory
Pico’s Oration contravenes the very idea of human possibility that we think the Renaissance is about – yet we think...
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October 7, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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Will time always be
caught up In the structure of light
October 7, 2025 at 5:08 AM
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Intro: I make bad art and take terrible photographs, of London mostly. I also write mediocre short stories. All of this brings me immense and colourful pleasure. It will suck for you guys though.
A colourful shot of London’s Chinatown, lots of neon lights and multicoloured paper lanterns. Light reflected in the rain off the street. A photograph of the London skyline towards Southall. A dirty orange sunset smeared above the city that seems to go on forever. Bright yellow cats eyes of the windows. A moody river Thames. Blurry orange lights spilling from Blackfriars’s bridge. Deep blue cloudy sky above. The water full of slick winter menace. A brick wall by the British Museum, blotched with white and black dirt, soot, paint and damp. The wall has a razor wire perm, dried in finger-cutting curls. A bricked up archway goes nowhere. A bricked up window sees nothing.
October 6, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I’m here I’m queer I’m bad at my job.
October 6, 2025 at 7:47 PM