Secrets from inside the Avalanche

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21 June 2022

‘There is a naked man who has been sat by the funeral ghats for many years. He eats with the birds. I mean like a bird. He sits watching not-burned feet hanging from the fires before they are raked and turned into the river. The pigeons sit there in winter, keeping warm. He helps people with a teaching. And the dogs and the monkeys they come and steal from him too, but he has nothing’ - excerpt

A Key Snapped off Inside the Lock

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21 July 2022

‘A half-remembered man has a stiff neck from staring up at religious architecture.’ -excerpt

Fiction / Non-Fiction

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21 August 2022

‘An elder of the village described details of an ape with two legs and four arms. An outsider with a pencil wrote it all down without question.’ - excerpt

Describing a Glass Bottle to the Sky

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21 September 2022

‘the shape of a wren’ - excerpt

Letting a Bunch of Flowers Die

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21 October 2022

‘The Yupari shaman take a child from birth. Removing the infant from it’s mother, they raise the child in a cave with only just enough light to prevent blindness. They keep the child in the cave for fourteen years. They feed the child a psychedelic root and describe natural laws of the universe. They describe everything; trees, bugs, rodents, jaguars, the planets. Education of everything in detail. Then one day they lead the child to the entrance of the cave. Remember what we told you of the world? Well - here it is’ - excerpt

Light on the Underside of Small Things

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21 November 2022

‘If you sit still and calm your mind

and if you do it right

an entire species of strange insects

will walk in circles on the jungle floor’ - excerpt

A Crow Flies Over a Pond

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21 December 2022

‘Stand naked for the Shotgun Baptists of Alabama’ - excerpt

There is Probably a Way to Open it

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21 January 2023

‘From here it is essential that you travel only on the documents that you hold in your hand. At the checkpoint you will be met by a man who sells perfume. You will know him by the addiction he conceals in plain sight. You can trust him. He will take you to the other side. He will smell of vanilla and open windows.’ - excerpt

Strangers with Umrellas

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21 February 2023

‘I was waiting in the doorway with electric in the heaven. Scared to move if I’m honest. I’d never seen a sky like the sky making gutters puke rats like that. One rat reminded me of a happy night with a girl. Lovely big teeth and a good horoscope. I wanted all of the rain in my mouth.’ - excerpt

Unusual Pleasure

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21 March 2023

‘slow love’ - excerpt

Making the Ocean

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21 April 2023

‘You are hiding in an attic in a country during strange weather. The sky is lower than normal and everyone is fearful of things. But you play music and the clouds sound like a flute when the wind blows. There are answers being whispered by the rafters and you’re the only person who can translate. And that is how you’ve learned to remain unafraid.’ - excerpt