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NEWCASTLE CREATIVE WRITERS


David Gairdner - My Life as an Online Friend
I'm clipboard copy/paster saved for later put me in your library then delete forever
David Gairdner
Mar 31, 20251 min read


David Gairdner
Property too expensive? Live in a shoebox. Cemetery too expensive? Dead in a shoebox. Like the bird, broken necked by a window that...
David Gairdner
Mar 31, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Paste
Da Vinci smiled, seeing himself in the albumen. Yeah, I know that smile too. I've sung those highway blues. All are self-portraits to her.
David Gairdner
Mar 31, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster - Paste
I don’t have time to Assemble a decent verse Open the jarred paste

Vesna McMaster
Mar 31, 20251 min read


David Gairdner
Some things are like the rain. Though you can feel it up close, it is easier to see from a distance, or surmised when walking a soft field.
David Gairdner
Mar 31, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster - Paste
Impasto thinking an overlapping chaos brain swamped in paint splats

Vesna McMaster
Mar 31, 20251 min read


David Gairdner
AFTER THE RAIN: Birds misnomer the field with seed. Months later, the harvest arrives.
David Gairdner
Mar 31, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster - Paste
Misread calendar Deadline closer than I thought Face like mushroom pate

Vesna McMaster
Mar 31, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Preserve
The sun is black, if you look at it enough.
David Gairdner
Mar 24, 20251 min read


Kevan Smith - Preserve
My job is to keep treasured foodstuffs safe but accessible to family members, and customers. One way to achieve this is to prevent decomposition through freezing and canning them in jars or using air-tight containers. Another very popular method is to store them, whole, diced or mashed, with sugars and pectin of under-ripe fruit. These methods are often used and reserved for particular people or groups that love to have foods and jams for many months after the growing sea
Kevan Smith
Mar 24, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Preserve
Long after the tree withered, orange quartered, marmalade slathered, glass jar shattered; A buried shard enters flesh, waking a sleeping...
David Gairdner
Mar 24, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Preserve
I wake up feeling like I've lost a fortune.... I will not sleep in those mansions again. The wealth is housed by others. It's too late.
David Gairdner
Mar 24, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Impress
The Necropolis: A city that always sleeps, Except late last night. Waking for event, Cemetery members' draw, Grandma wins trinkets.
David Gairdner
Mar 17, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Impress
Open your big eyes, telling me lies. Soul mate -- bye bye -- washing machine.
David Gairdner
Mar 17, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Impress
I spend life waiting, for you to ask for magic. Rabbit dies in hat.
David Gairdner
Mar 17, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Impress
Impressionism: Your sunsets weren't that blurry. My photos prove it.
David Gairdner
Mar 17, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Deep
My grandma in her late age, would speak to me of old loved ones passing. When she listed names, I would narrow my eyes, nod slowly and...
David Gairdner
Mar 10, 20251 min read


Vesna McMaster - Tomato
First Park Run in years Instils the rosy glow of A ripe tomato

Vesna McMaster
Mar 3, 20251 min read


David Gairdner - Tomato
INT. KITCHEN - DAY Landline phone. Middle-aged. TRENT GORMAN is on the phone. The house is cluttered with things. Trent is crying. ...
David Gairdner
Mar 3, 20256 min read
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