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For several years now I have been attempting to write poems and flash fiction. My early stuff was not good. Anyone who read Unsound Sounds could see that I didn’t have a voice, and I didn’t really know what I was doing with pieces so short. But I’ve been in the mental gym. I’ve been slogging away in front of the keyboard for many years, writing, rewriting, scrapping, starting again and s

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“There they sit, with everyone thinking no more of them than they might of a pretty odd lot of cabbages, yet half the time they’re pattering and clattering away at one another. Why? What is it they patter about? That’s what I want to know.’ I”
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