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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


Ricci Schwarzler - Siren
She was to blame, the siren. It was her fault. She lured them into things they didn’t want to do.  They didn’t want to hit the rocks,...
Ricci Schwarzler
Jun 301 min read
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Carol Gano - Sirens
Those damn sirens!  Just when I had gotten into the swing of mopping decks in the relative freedom of mere shackles—sans being tethered...
Carol Gano
Jun 302 min read
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David Gairdner
Jun 300 min read
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Kevan Smith - Siren
Red heat blisters skin unless wrapped in heavy woollen greatcoats, shields, and gloves. Goggles and ear muffs unable to stop pain.  ...
Kevan Smith
Jun 301 min read
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Kevan Smith - Loaf
Heat and flames burning bushy eyebrows, aromatic smoke wafting, Nandolnd, the crumpled gnome, moves the long-handled broadtruele inside...
Kevan Smith
Jun 231 min read
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Vesna McMaster - Loaf
Two days until my wedding. I cannot move from this house. The locks are bigger than my head, the windows high out of reach, so high they...
Vesna McMaster
Jun 232 min read
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David Gairdner - Loaf
Roger hates birthdays. He is "given" his own cake, but then forced to share. (And a special variant...) Vesna likes birthdays. She is...
David Gairdner
Jun 231 min read
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David Gairdner - Snow
Snow on Barrington, landscape remembers canvas, age-old crown of white.
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Jun 161 min read
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Kevan Smith - Snow
Atmospheric water vapour, frozen into ice crystals, falling in light, white flakes piling up at the front door. A mass of flickering...
Kevan Smith
Jun 161 min read
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Vesna McMaster – Snow; or, The Procrastinator’s Lament
We don’t know where we are. Something was chasing. Is chasing, but in all this white it will be chasing forever.  Cold without end....
Vesna McMaster
Jun 161 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler - Party
The party was in full swing. Mark was dancing on the table as expected, Jo was sick in the corner, Cath was running around checking...
Ricci Schwarzler
Jun 92 min read
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David Gairdner - Smitten/Guest/Party
Have you forgotten? Jehovah smites the tyrants -- moth visits chamber. ----- Entering inside, landing onto throne's ceiling, crown...
David Gairdner
Jun 91 min read
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Ricci Schwarzler - 'Nurture'
Impactful Destroying Loving Abusing Caring Soul Destroying Soul Creating Neglectful Supporting Cruel Kind Cold Emotional Manipulative...
Ricci Schwarzler
Jun 21 min read
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Kevan Smith - Guest
With a deafening roar and violent spinning wind the 60-meter-wide blinding disc touches down in the football car park. Â Thousands of...
Kevan Smith
Jun 21 min read
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Vesna McMaster - Guest
‘Oh day and night but this is wondrous strange Then as a stranger bid it welcome’  Thoughts that once only visited Make themselves...
Vesna McMaster
Jun 21 min read
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