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#MilitantFactionsQuotes 92: All the pain, selfishness, friendships forsaken and lovers forced out by my obsession...
Posted on December 14, 2021 at 3:00 AM |
#MilitantFactionsQuotes 92:
On that strange afternoon when I heard my novel had been accepted I sat in my study, Linda’s photograph looking d...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 91: It was probably the only time I was both young, and knew that I was young
Posted on December 13, 2021 at 1:50 AM |
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London, June 2010
It was that journey around Europe that first gave me some id...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 90: Nothing has prepared me for Cable Beach...
Posted on December 12, 2021 at 6:10 AM |
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Nothing has prepared me for Cable Beach: the dinosaur layers, the vicious reds, the camel trains and 4WDs leaving tempo...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 89: Hemingway would have taken a goat skin of wine to recover; I take Ibuprofen
Posted on December 12, 2021 at 6:05 AM |
#MilitantFactionsQuotes 89:
We head north east to Soria, a small town in Castilla y Leon of Oi! graffiti and churches capped with the enormous nest...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 88: Floating above the paddy fields in an Indian helicopter
Posted on December 12, 2021 at 6:00 AM |
#MilitantFactionsQuotes 88:
Floating above the paddy fields in an Indian helicopter, flashes of colour all around: painted elephants, greedy buffalo, colonial villas ruined by the sun and the vines. Everywhere ...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 87: In the summer of 1983, I was fortunate enough to spend a night under the stars
Posted on December 11, 2021 at 5:00 AM |
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In the summer of 1983, I was fortunate enough to spend a night under the stars. Although I had known homelessness with ...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 86: Deirdre's folks had a caravan in Wells-next-the-Sea
Posted on December 11, 2021 at 4:45 AM |
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It was Mickey’s idea to go on holiday: me, Mickey, Marsha and her mate from police school, Deirdre. Deirdre scare...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 85: The West, where even the sun went, destination for the hungry world
Posted on December 10, 2021 at 2:10 AM |
#MilitantFactionsQuotes 85:
The woman sat in the booth watching the film, frowning, puzzled: so was Donald. The world portrayed - some rich America...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 84: A truck pulled up past the charred hotdog stand by the empty grey beach
Posted on December 9, 2021 at 2:15 AM |
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A truck pulled up past the charred hotdog stand by the empty grey beach dotted with driftwood or dead seals. Honey look...
Read Full Post »#MilitantFactionsQuotes 83: -When I was a kid, he said, -mum took me to the big shop in town and I sat on Father Christmas's knee and he got a boner
Posted on December 8, 2021 at 3:05 AM |
#MilitantFactionsQuotes 83:
-When I was a kid, he said, -mum took me to the big shop in town and I sat on Father Christmas’s knee and he got ...
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