The wind rattles the metal sign above the pub door, someone’s shoved a recycling bin too close to the entrance so the lid keeps knocking against the wall like it’s trying to get in for a quick one. Inside, the four of us are nursing pints that taste vaguely like someone washed the lines with… Continue reading Grey tint
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Nachos
Someone at the table was already halfway through a schooner and two bad ideas. “…sets, mate? You’re still on about sets?” “Not tennis sets, you clown.” “Well you said sets, and we’ve just had the bloody Australian Open shoved down our throats for three weeks. Every time I turned on the telly it’s some bloke… Continue reading Nachos
Bored games
Same pub, but later.The kind of evening where the light’s gone yellow and the wind’s picked up just enough to move rubbish along the footpath like it’s got somewhere important to be. A chip packet skitters past the window, followed by a receipt, then half a betting slip that refuses to lie flat. Inside, it… Continue reading Bored games
Futurists – Horne 2021
'Those who learn history are doomed to repeat it’ matter: physiochemical information in an elemental form. life: matter in an artifactual biological form that captures free energy to recreate the form. time: the apparent experience of the interaction of matter and energy within space. futurism: Reporting the probable change in matter, the flapping of a… Continue reading Futurists – Horne 2021
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