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    Zeit
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 16 min

    Zeit

    Summer drains the last of its energy, browning the bracken and plumping blackberries. There will be no grandstand peroration for the mou...
    In Fairness
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 9 min

    In Fairness

    "In the morning the effects of the Grey Man's curse were sufficiently plain; rocks had been detached that no earthly power could move, a...
    Pebbles
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 4 min

    Pebbles

    I needed to get lonely. I was full reeling drunk, caught out by those last three or two shots, doing my unlevel best to walk a straight...
    Winters Past
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 10 min

    Winters Past

    December 2011, a few nights before the solstice: I am all but asleep at the wheel on the M80 between Stirling and Glasgow. It’s 3 a.m., a...
    Fight the Moonlight
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 13 min

    Fight the Moonlight

    The raven bounces on the air overhead, folds its wings as it rides a weightless arc, inverts and drops like a dart, spirals upright and...
    La République
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 11 min

    La République

    You were in the Alps. Was it good? Yeah, it was good, but… For no obvious reason, I spent the first few days in Chamonix swaying between ...
    Chessman
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Chessman

    On the shattered edge of the continent, it’s elemental. The elements are mental. Crack hit-squalls send us to ground, coming out twitch...
    American Tales: Hot Tub Cougar
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 5 min

    American Tales: Hot Tub Cougar

    Just outta Bridgeport, there's some hot springs up a dirt track behind the ranger office. Real nice spot. Great views over the mountains ...
    Triptych
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 4 min

    Triptych

    In the month before Christmas, I got to know a segment of paved ground outside Morrisons in a town called Rothwell, near Leeds. It was ...
    Matter Under Mind
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 9 min

    Matter Under Mind

    Fingers piano play the flatness at the back of a rounded break, toes smudge on subtle scoops and dimples, limbs twist and press with as...
    Freefalls
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 11 min

    Freefalls

    Squrrrrrk ...is it on? OK. It's been a while, last year in fact, since I wrote on this blog. I posted a couple of stories from our two ...
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 11 min

    American Tales: The Rostrum

    We're sitting in the parking lot of Annett's Mono Village the morning after the Incredible Hulk. Walking out took a lot less time, bein...
    American Tales: The Incredible Hulk
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 8 min

    American Tales: The Incredible Hulk

    : ...the Third Pillar of Daaaana....the Needles...buy a Golden Eagle pass...Andrew, you have got to climb OZ. For the true effect of this...
    The Zone
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 4 min

    The Zone

    Violence sweeps through the Zone, wave after wave, leaving rainbows. These are not the only conspiracy of the rain and light to capture ...
    Dream Liberator
    AMo
    • Nov 9, 2018
    • 3 min

    Dream Liberator

    Here’s a feeling I’d forgotten, a summer sensation with a twist of the mystic, not a thing at all maybe – but it brings a strange familia...
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