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First Cut: Interview with John Bowie

The sixth book in the First Cut Poetry series, Dead Birds & Sinking Ships (Happy Little Tales of Melancholy Madness) … More

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HLR interviewed by Amy-Jean Muller for Outcast Press

conversation, grief, interview, lit mag, loss, poems, poetry, poetry community, trauma, writing, writing community

Things He Said in Bed

Everyone’s dead / all my family’s dead now / it’s just me. Last man standing but I feel like I’m … More

conversation, friendship, life, poetry, prose, prose poetry, prosetry, relationships, writing

Elizabeth

she looked like a girl I knew but stranger a creature dental-floss hair ice in her eyes tattoos on her … More

conversation, depression, dialogue, experience, friendship, holiday, life, mental illness, poem, poetry, secrets, strangers, suffering, writing

The F Word

“What are you afraid of?” she asks, pen poised over the page of her notebook that is otherwise blank apart … More

conversation, dialogue, fear, freedom, Freud, help, Hijacked Amygdala, language, life, mental illness, prose, psychoanalysis, suicide, therapy, writing

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S: What are you gonna be for Halloween this year? Me: A sober person S: *screams* *terrified* *scared* *horrified* Blessed … More

addiction, alcoholism, conversation, dialogue, diary, halloween, journal, life, notebook, sober

My New Friend

“Hey, kid, where’s your mama?” “At work,” she says. “What about your dad?” “Gone.” I flinch for a moment, wondering … More

advice, childhood, conversation, danger, dialogue, friendship, girls, learning, life, safety, short prose, strangers, women, writing, youth

Wonderful, Miserable

*door opens* “Hello, my lov—” “JESUS CHRIST! You scared the fucking life out of me! I didn’t hear you come … More

books, conversation, depression, dialogue, friendship, happiness, home, life, literature, love, misery, reading, relationships, writing

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What she says: I don’t want to feel like this anymore What he hears: *Sky Sports News on the television* … More

conversation, depression, drug abuse, drugs, fucked up, journal, life, mood, notebook, personality disorder, poem, poetry, relationships, writing

Hack

Dear Little Boy who was sitting in front of me on the 214 bus yesterday who had his arm wrapped … More

advice, childhood, conversation, experience, kids, learning, letter, life, London, poem, poetry, prosetry, self harm, strangers, truth

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