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Who's That on TV?
A woman with her hair dyed half blond half blood, she shuts the kitchen door and says, “They can hear us.” With one finger tapping her nose she says…
Benjamin Allen
Dec 5, 2022
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November 2022
8 Pool Ball
Anything oily or creamy on my body makes me wanna rip my skin off. Even now I’m growing older with no moisturiser in my bathroom cabinet. I like my skin…
Benjamin Allen
Nov 6, 2022
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October 2022
Cassy Spedding
A not so spooky Halloween story
Benjamin Allen
Oct 31, 2022
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Sometimes
Sometimes, your girlfriend comes out of the bathroom waving a wet pregnancy stick and shouting. Shouting that for someone who sucks at thrusting you…
Benjamin Allen
Oct 26, 2022
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August 2022
Orbiting
We are the last chance. The last opportunity to change our past. That sounds ambitious when you look around and everyone is still sucking their thumbs…
Benjamin Allen
Aug 6, 2022
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July 2022
Last Man on the Moon
The snow is coming down erasing the city. My red hat muffling the whole world. A yellow scarf over my mouth. I must look like a stamp on a parcel. Ready…
Benjamin Allen
Jul 24, 2022
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Dangling Feet
If this was ancient Rome, this would be a buried volcanic-ash death. Eveline and I. In our own little Pompeii. This could be how we died.
Benjamin Allen
Jul 17, 2022
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Number Twenty-Five, Vanilla Milkshake
Early morning, the world is always out of focus. Pumping in caffeine. Sip after sip. In a way, this is renewable energy. That will let you run for…
Benjamin Allen
Jul 10, 2022
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February 2022
Hello, Who’s This?
If we were friends when we were kids, you probably received one of those phone calls. The landline phone rang, you picked up and couldn’t hear a thing…
Benjamin Allen
Feb 20, 2022
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Give Me Vitamin C
The delivery guy will drop forty-seven oranges and twenty-five clementines by the front door. He’ll step back a few meters and I’ll drag everything…
Benjamin Allen
Feb 16, 2022
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January 2022
One of Those Persons Who Should Never Die
My mother and her brothers, they all stay in touch with the usual phone call on Christmas making sure no one is dying or checking if anyone got married.
Benjamin Allen
Jan 2, 2022
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December 2021
Pins and Needles
There’s always a sense of relief in hospitals. No matter how miserable you are feeling, two seats away there’s always someone who looks much worse.
Benjamin Allen
Dec 31, 2021
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