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manuwrites
Jun 2, 20232 min read
Summer once more
The world is ever changing; every day, decade, generation. Arguably, due to global warming, so are the seasons. Extreme weather...
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manuwrites
Sep 30, 20223 min read
A satisfying ending
Lorna shuffles along, curved shoulders hunched slightly forward, bald spot at the back of her head. Every morning she combs and teases...
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manuwrites
Jul 22, 20225 min read
Everything’s not copacetic
George Negritsoyski on Pexels.com New York Spring 1953 – two friends sitting at a corner table in a packed bar, drinking and smoking,...
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manuwrites
Jun 10, 20223 min read
Expectations
Great Expectations THAT DAY was a day like every other. Maybe it was this awareness that tipped the scale. We’ll never know. But, you...
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manuwrites
Apr 19, 20222 min read
Antitheses
Photo by Kei Scampa They literally collided, one day, in the hallway at work. One was turning a corner, rather sharply, arms loaded with...
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manuwrites
Mar 25, 20223 min read
Linked
They walked home from the party, arms linked. The next morning, the tiny flat they shared would reek of that funky “the day after smell”...
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manuwrites
Jan 18, 20221 min read
Elizabeth Gilbert’s City of Girls
What a read! A confession of sorts within an answer to a question…”What were you to my father?” A declaration of having existed on this...
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manuwrites
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Ethan Hawke’s A Bright Ray of Darkness
The sky will not stop sobbing. When Zeus thunders, my dog Charlie follows suit, bursting into aggressive high pitched barks. Candles are...
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manuwrites
May 28, 20212 min read
Teju Cole’s Open City
modern stream of consciousness I have just shut this book; still warm to the touch. It is the first time I have read this...
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manuwrites
May 18, 20211 min read
Sharing books
#read #johnmurray #darkside #growth #personalities #gettingalong #characters #relationships #knowingyourself #friends #dysfunction #love...
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manuwrites
Mar 16, 20211 min read
Snippets of Life (from A to Z) “G”
THE LETTER “G” Governing the night were: gritty interiors, grimy toilets, great music, gutsy performances, gargantuan gin and tonics,...
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manuwrites
Mar 12, 20213 min read
Meet you in Paris
I awake to a drizzly grey morning in Paris. It is the type of gloomy weather day that only European cities manage to pull off. From the...
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