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For several years now I have been attempting to write poems and flash fiction. My early stuff was not good. Anyone who read Unsound Sounds could see that I didn’t have a voice, and I didn’t really know what I was doing with pieces so short. But I’ve been in the mental gym. I’ve been slogging away in front of the keyboard for many years, writing, rewriting, scrapping, starting again and s

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“It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s a still poorer pass to have no one to depend on.”
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“There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they’re pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That’s what I want to know.’ I”
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“But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.”
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