never mind the beasts
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HAMMER AND PIGGY
Here is a story from Milton Keynes, England, in 1982, Coffee Hall Housing Estate. It is close to Christmas and after Guy Fawkes. Everything is shiny, especially the new 20P coin, an equilateral curve heptagon. This microfiction is from Never Mind the Beasts, my novel in flash fictions, forthcoming from Dostoyevsky Wannabe in April 2020. Read more
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NEVER MIND THE BEASTS: A NEW WEBSITE
I just reached over half million visits on my blogger website Never Mind the Beasts. A mile stone maybe. Thank you so much for stopping by!! The blogger Never Mind the Beasts blog has now gone dark to avoid duplicate content. Never Mind the Beasts now has its own domain and a new site. This… Read more
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THE ELEPHANTS
The moon is sometimes bloated. There is so much. Just stop, slow down, take a look at your brain. It is very bloated. Put your thoughts in a balloon, maybe 99 red balloons, and pop them. Over and over. Here are some balloons. From my book The Green Monk, forthcoming from Boiler House Press on… Read more
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DREW GARDNER
TERRIFIC POEMS BY DREW GARDNER OVER AT EMPTY MIRROR: http://www.emptymirrorbooks.com/poems/poems-by-drew-gardner.html Read more
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THE ALL NEW SWIMMER’S CLUB
The all new swimmer’s club. Now over at the classic indie press Dostoyevsky Wannabe: Read more
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SAINT PRIMAL
Currently finishing up my manuscript Never Mind the Beasts. Never Mind the Beasts is a book of saints with many settings, including: Lisbon, London, Milton Keynes, Hurricane, Portadown, Katowice, Faro, and Texas. It is a great mashup bursting with flavours, including: instructional essays, alien immigrant memoirs, erotic stories, vignettes, political fables, monologues, and travelogues. Never… Read more
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PUBLIC POOL
Have some wee London stories over at Public Pool with audio. “Snug” and “Dinosaurs.” From my novel in progress The Autobiography of Don Whiskers: Read more
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XING THE LINE FAREWELL READING
I read at Xing the Line last night. My last reading before leaving to live in Madrid. On the eve of the big vote. Maybe I will not be gone long. Who knows. I hope I am still an EU citizen after today. Then again I have been meaning to change my passport for an… Read more
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BLUE LIGHT SPECIALS AND PLACENTAS
A short excerpt From my recently finished novel NEVER MIND THE BEASTS. Will be sending it out to publishers/agents soon. Fingers crossed. Never Mind the Beasts is a 1985 coming-of-age story of Henry, a recent immigrant from Portadown, N. Ireland. Told in the style of vignettes, we move inside the mind of Henry as he… Read more
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One Minute Sculpture
but mostly he carried an astronaut he carried an astronaut like greasy bacon over a rump roast like an ox that plows and plows and plows that sexes his cherries and sends him up with moon humps and sucker punches a sucker for a suckling diddling his axis with her helmet and her little white… Read more
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