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12 June: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share. ©Misky 2022-2025 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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12 June: A Six Sentence Story
Hog Trough Confessional I’ve returned to Hog Trough Lane with a secret rewoven from old strands. To hurt is to steal, I said to the boy who once showed me his father’s hog knives glinting in the hayloft —the barn smelled of slop and honeysuckle, and the hogs were grunting hymns as they rooted through…
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11 June: An Ode to Dawn
An Ode to Dawn (Rewritten with Salt & Ether) The sun licks its copper fingers,turns eyelids into gilded scripture—awake, awake, awake—each blink a hexagainst night’s failed coup. Breath arrives—unpaid, unblessed—thoughts chime like cathedral glassin the cage of maybe,where silence brewsin chamomile steambeside a tarot spread of dreamsleft face-down. And love?Love is the unasked-forsecond spoon of…
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10 June: A Six Sentence Story
To Hurt is to Steal The clinic lights hum —guilty, guilty as saints in hiding. The nurse peels back the bandage …to heal is to steal, you whisper it—not to her, but to the wound’s ruby grin, a slow eclipse hoarding your flesh like a miser of moonlight strands. Outside, crows heckle the parking lot, tallying…
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10.06: The Old Woman With No Cat
Dead Woman Boils the Kettle While Contemplating Life’s Divine Comedy the old woman’s teasteeps like a minor miracle—hot water turning leavesinto prophecy. she adds honey,stolen from the gods’ own breakfast,stirs counterclockwiseto spite the universe’s spin. the neighbour’s cat(now self-appointed familiar)drapes itself over the drainboard,watching her with the smugnessof a creature who’s read all the sacred…
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07.06: Ten Things of Thankful
In no particular order: 1.Thankful that I was able to clear out the fridge before leaving on holiday, and not throw any of it in the bin. 2.AirTags. I repeat: AirTags. And AirTag knock-offs that work just as well as the genuine article. Thankful that our lost luggage in Philadelphia was found, thanks to AirTags,…
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The Ghost of Elbow Road
Virginia Beach —dusk whispering left at the curve. She was never buried—only bent. Like the road. Like the truth. Her name—lost in the turn, caught between asphalt and afterthought. Now, she lingers where the trees lean too close, where the ditches weep when it rains. She’s The Girl. No name. White dress. Waiting eyes. She’s…
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5 June: A Thursday Door
Bushboy (Brian Dodd) shares photos of doors, but not just any doors. Spectacular doors from his journeys. Dan’s Thursday Doors opened the door on this. I love doors of all sorts. I’ve trawled through my photos and found a few to share. ©Misky 2022-2025 Shared on X #amwriting @bushboywhotweet and @DAntion
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5 June: The Old Woman With No Cat
Things the Old Woman Will Tell Her Granddaughter(a mid-flight manifesto scribbled on a napkin over the Atlantic) note from 39,000 feet:if you’re reading this, my girl—the kittens definitely needan unwritten rule:something about how to napwhile technicallystill causing trouble.(you’ll know the words.i’ll bring the chocolate.) and when the old woman finally lands in America,she kisses the…
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04.06: The Old Woman With No Cat
The Old Woman and the Crow’s Gift The old woman holds the crow’s going-awaygift in her hand.It’s joy. It’s love in her hands,and she tucks it into her apron pocket—right between: a wilted dandelion (for wishes),three pocket-lint stars (collected accidentally),the ghost of a peppermint (still vaguely sticky). “Thank you, my little light,” she hums,though the…
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