• 'Eat My Scraps. Please' is written on a photograph of two young girls. They do not look happy. Someone has doodled over their faces to maintain anonymity.
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    I can’t stop thinking about thinking! Art is an expression of self… So here I am… Laid out like a buffet and slowly unwrapped Let me clack against your teeth Why does the brain look like that? I love my wind chimes!! Ego is a lizard looking in the mirror  The shadows are an opportunity ...
  • A child stares into camera, held by her mother whose anonymity is preserved through the drawing of a heart over her face.
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    >> H – h – hello?? > Is it working yet? > Am I making it through to you? >>Keep reading. You’ll get there in the end.  Now — poor Cinderstein wasn’t a great waitress, having built herself from bits and pieces, she was very clumsy: sorry! I made a mess         ...
  • A low lit picture of a globe.
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    And this is how it starts.   You are reading a page I once wrote  about a paper game (of consequences) in which my friend met god on the couch of eternity— and he turned to her and said    Hey you wanna get out of here and see the world? before leaning back and ...
  • An art doll held by strings.
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    In a dark, dark corner of a dark, dark lair  behind a dark, dark door down some dark, dark stairs  sits a pale and handsome woman with some dark, dark hair…   ‘Good evening,’ she purrs as you pull up a chair  ‘Can I be of help in my humble abode? Are you scared? Are ...
  • A liminal train station with three orange chairs.
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    You open your eyes. Oh! You must have drifted off. You look around, slightly disoriented. The carriage rattles softly. Outside, there is only deep darkness. You are alone. Everyone else seems to have exited the train whilst you were asleep. You swipe a hand across your mouth and try to collect your thoughts. “Please Mind ...
  • a photograph of a dilapidated and creative room with graffiti on the walls
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    You step into the old room. The air is full of mothballs and age. The lamps are yellowing and their shades are adorned with tassels. This room was grand once. But now the wallpaper peels away like sunburned skin, and the air sits heavy. Much remains undiscovered here. You mooch around knick-knacks and paddy whacks ...
  • A thunderstorm over the ocean at night
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    Hello, Dear Reader. How funny – I am not sure what I want to say to you. But I know I want to say something… We’ve been on a crazy adventure, you and I. We’ve seen a lot of things.  I think I’ve grown attached to you, if I’m being honest. And why wouldn’t I ...
  • cartoon badger, wearing a waistcoat and glasses, standing in the forest, on a dirt path with grass, flowers, and trees.
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    Goodness. Where were we? Ah yes – Bless You! Bagley pauses for a moment, suspends his pen – then, with the air of someone who chooses ignorance over inconvenience, he picks up a fresh piece of thick writing paper and begins a new letter. Bagley did not hear the sneeze. That is to say, he ...
  • a badger cartoon character dressed in a suit and tie with his hands on his hips
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    It is a regular Thursday mid-morning. Bagley awakens from a half-remembered dream and blinks a sleepy hello to his cream ceiling. He watches a spider scuttle across its large expanse in fits and starts. He wonders, as badgers often do. Soon, wondering becomes wandering, and Bagley finds himself downstairs, alphabetizing biscuits. Now, dear reader, most ...
  • cartoon badger, wearing a waistcoat and glasses, standing in the forest, on a dirt path with grass, flowers, and trees.
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    Good Morrow, Dear Reader! The Narrator here. Do you like stories? What about stories within stories? I do. I love them. In fact, I gobble them up like treacle tart on a rainy Tuesday, and sometimes I eat so many, they leak out of my ears, and tickle the ends of my whiskers. Oh yes ...