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Snowstorms
I have magic words that triggerSnowstorms in my mindTempests, gales and hurricanesTo freeze my body in kind Oh frozen, bitter blizzardAll I hear and seeSmall hours of battering windThat howls and haunts through me I want to strip this powerOr smoke you from my skullExorcise these feelingsAnd leave a gentle lull One day I will…
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Pool of the Abyss
(~5,000 words) Content warnings: Depictions of peril My dad had always been a daredevil. For as long as I could remember, every few years, he would get some new crazy idea about quad biking across the Sahara or camping in a reserve in the middle of the Congo. You could always tell the pattern. He…
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The Small Town and Global Warming (c.2008)
I came across this today. It’s a short story I wrote for a writing competition about global warming. The page says I was 13 when I wrote it, which means the story would have been written around 2007/8. The writing style is really clunky and I don’t know what I was thinking with that last…