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Posted on September 22, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 8

Eighteen years and a day since they held hands – one twelve, one eight, one six, one twenty-five – and were bought, and were sold.

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Posted on September 15, 2019September 30, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 7

Chaos to get into.

The tattered tethers of the known to leave behind.

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Posted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 6

The life, suspended, lives nonetheless inside, its mind in the past, its present; my mind in the present, my past.

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Posted on September 1, 2019September 1, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 5

There are clouds, in flux from grey to white, in the blue that the grassed hill climbs into, some walls of stone and little paths mark it, near the trees, for settlement.

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Posted on August 24, 2019August 24, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 4

“You’re a… spirit. Or a stroke…”

“Or a girl.”

“Or a Cheshire Cat.”

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Posted on August 18, 2019August 18, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 3

An accordion and a clarinet once danced together before a set of drums, and the aural ghost of their exchange is frenzied as it floats around the café room.

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Posted on August 11, 2019August 11, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Chapter 2

The wind stabs among the players every couple of bars,
a forceful beat formed by the rustle of the trees.

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Posted on August 4, 2019August 4, 2019

The Floating Harbour: Prologue & Chapter 1

I keep my seat, for now alone, my mind as the morning and the city: awake and peacefully awaiting more.

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Posted on August 3, 2019

A Tanka, Then A Word, And Then A Sentence

Finally.

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Posted on July 27, 2019

She Rises Then: prologue to The Floating Harbour

I give voice to her name again, though I do not shift my gaze.

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Posted on July 21, 2019July 21, 2019

One Right Reserved: copyright disclaimer for The Floating Harbour

The Floating Harbour shall be under a Free Culture license.

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Posted on July 18, 2019July 18, 2019

Praise for The Floating Harbour

Exaggerated, fabricated praise.

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Posted on July 14, 2019

Chapter list for The Floating Harbour

For All The Syllables, The Words…

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Posted on July 10, 2019October 27, 2019

The Floating Harbour: a serialised novel

Written between January, 2016 and August, 2019.

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Posted on July 6, 2019

Excerpts: a trailer for a novel

And all is rather still.

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