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Creative Writing

Original, creative writing from TheNeverPress. This is where you will find poetry, short stories, epiphanies, musings and all sorts of strange and beguiling work. This will be a mix of old work and also new writing - and, some of it will be given away to all, and others will be for subscribers only. To get access to this lost-and-found treasure trove of thoughts and ideas, simply subscribe with your email and then dive in like Scrooge McDuck.

TheNeverPages Graham Thomas

Chapter Four

Number on the carriage has fallen off. Unvarnished outline of ‘1’ remains. Going in to investigate. If I don’t come back then Lucy, the dream was true. I’m sorry. Brekker if you read this, follow the clues, and maybe you will have more success. Get to Lucy! Save her!
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Poetry Graham Thomas

Coins Against Keys

Happy National Poetry Day!
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TheNeverPages Graham Thomas

Chapter Three

I’m going to explore the train. Though I have not seen a soul except her since we boarded, I’m certain that we are not the only people aboard. I can hear someone coming. The woman? I will report back after.
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Poetry Rosie Cook

a station

Hustle bustle beat Beats beating mine and yours // Can’t read the words, worlds on my lap can see words, worlds once I fold the pages back
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TheNeverPages Graham Thomas

Chapter Two

On train now. I almost had given up hope. It came when the woman was bleeding from both nostrils. The dust cloud has dissipated. It went quicker than it came. I woke up and I saw the cloud rising, like a curtain in a play.
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Poetry Rosie Cook

Still living

A still living  A faint buzz, hum  To remind you ...
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Short Stories Graham Thomas

An Unannounced Adult

It was back in ’95 when his summers were still long and Ben Gordon was out on the ledge, 2,000 feet above the city. The small iron buttress extended horizontally twelve feet out from the peak of the Stivyakino TV Tower. He had walked the five-inch-wide beam to the very edge.
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Poetry Graham Thomas

Gifts to Give

Give me firm ground to hold me still, And purest brine to drown until, The sky falls off of its silvery peg, And crashes down upon my head.
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Poetry Rosie Cook

Joy

Joy in conversation lacked and then had  It’s nice to be with you  And out of myself
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Poetry Rosie Cook

moments

When thoughts never stop  Moments sometimes tinge with an off-coloured brown  Like old cigarettes  Or paper that’s been burnt at the sides. Moments  All white and crisp  Until the flaming end Of rolled up paper and tobacco  Preys on the corners edge Threatening to let it all go Up
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Poetry Graham Thomas

Time Wasters

Little pumps in bed, Little repeats at brek
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Poetry Rosie Cook

to not need

It’s nice to not need anything To sit softly in the hangover haze  slow and fuzzy     happenings around me
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