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The End

Graham Lawrence — Sun, 30 Mar 2025 04:28:06 +0000

I can’t remember if it was Hannington Point or… Whatever. But I remember clearly the Vic had an all day licence and the spring weather, or was it summer or autumn or winter, was warm clear and fine. It was good to be sitting on the small grass verge outside the Vic drinking beer so […]

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There is a Light that Never Goes Out

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 26 Feb 2025 03:57:40 +0000

–Santa, the Man Mountain and a bottle of water called Virgin– Today in the cold light of day, I saw Santa coming out of our building. I never knew he lived there. His white beard and white hair lining his ruddy face, but today unlike other days when I saw him in the coffee shop […]

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The Face

Graham Lawrence — Thu, 16 Jan 2025 04:05:39 +0000

Andy and I sat around a small table close to the fire or fake fire in the large lounge of the George surrounded by people of all ages and backgrounds. We were quiet and enjoying the occasional memory of school or occasional exchange of work story or comment on the football. It was a warm […]

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Betty / Beauty

Graham Lawrence — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 03:43:59 +0000

The freshly cut coriander roots smelt wonderful infusing the whole house with their virgin freshness as they awaited becoming some addition to a preplanned dish, and by doing so losing the extent of their odour, losing their power to totally overwhelm and becalm, losing their power to demand to be noticed but adding a more […]

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Lita

Graham Lawrence — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 04:33:29 +0000

… there she was again. Maybe thirty meters in front and about to round the corner. Sudden surge forward. I couldn’t miss her this time. And yet there she was at the next corner about to take a right still thirty meters ahead. I was determined this time I would get level. A sprint and […]

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The Wedding Party

Graham Lawrence — Fri, 17 May 2024 06:31:41 +0000

Ah, release! I glided slowly at first but then warming up nicely behind, and picking up speed. High, high, high above the low clouds, and viewed from above they were as cotton wooled carpet onto which you could step. A temptation. I wanted to take that now and walk and roll and play in that […]

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Twins

Graham Lawrence — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 09:10:41 +0000

I stand looking into the deep blue azure sky with the sun blazing and reflecting off of me and twinkling and blinding and heating, and I gaze at my not so distant twin and see the same. Both of us so proud and tall in the early morning sun that is warming us both from […]

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