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The Art of Photocopier Maintenance – Paul J Penton

Jun 15th, 2009 | By admin | Category: short stories

With his prized metal case of magic tricks he leaves the rented second story flat on Riversdale Road Hawthorne to head for the equally well to do Camberwell.  No need to go into the office this morning, this job is just a couple of suburbs away. The air still has a taint of cold about [...]



Gas Mask – Object Writing March 17

Mar 22nd, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily Writing

Like a mask of death it rested on her face, the dials of glass lighting up her eyes but not showing the full rate of her heart, catapulting to and fro in her rib cage. Panic was the only certainty at this moment as sirens wailed and shells hailed down on this quarter of the [...]



Contradiction – Daily Writing March 22

Mar 22nd, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily Writing

His argument seemed to be riding along the rails of logic quite well, a few squeaks as he rounded some hairy corners. His line seemed to be beginning to creak and rattle though, and then it was if a freight train had just blown its whistle at a crossing. The bells began clanging people were [...]



Infatuation – Object Writing 9 March

Mar 8th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily Writing

She just couldn’t get him out of her head, it was as if a road crew had set themselves up in there and had been digging and driving around all night, those whirring generators and high powered spotlights had been sweeping to and fro. She was a prisoner inside her own mind. For the most [...]



Honey – Object Writing March 06

Mar 5th, 2009 | By admin | Category: Daily Writing

Spoons and knifes excavating the jar at breakfast, digging into the gluey unending bottomless pit of golden hue, exerting levered pressure in the gathering. Pneumatic muscles strain to release the tethered spoon. Freed, golden strains of the honey sing from the spoon, a ballerina twirl seals the globby mass to the still spinning silver. The [...]