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A wedge of home-made butter
Pre-dawn sleet melts diamonds onto the girls hat as she finds her position on the bus. Half-term has wiped the roads clean, the lights through the one way system are green and we’re two minutes early. The driver stops outside … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Prose Poetry, Snapshots
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, bus bunny, bus driver, create prose, Creative writing, cut-off, fiction, flash, gainful employment, graphite bunny, Isolation, job, lonliness, love, morning, newspapers, prose poetry, relationships, rhondda bus, short fiction, silent movie, sleet, stagecoach bus, stagecoach rhonnda, winter, winter morning
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They showed her how to eat wood
Susan is crushed after years of coming home to her boyfriend’s crying. Her emotions feel like glass. She has a job that abuses rather than nurtures, her employer doesn’t want to invest in people, he wants a battery. As she … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Photography, Prose Poetry
Tagged ammonia excretion, ball, battery people, bed bunny, Benjamin F Jones, cider, Creative writing, crushed, crushing job, eating wood, emotions, flash fiction, granny grey, graphite bunny, invest in people, isopod, mental health, micro-fiction, peer group, prose poetry, relationships, sowbugs, tears, the battery people, trundlebug, woodlice, woodlouse, writing
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On the Stove
Gary is thin on the phone – his girlfriend has done the dirty with another man. Their relationship is a ballet of misunderstanding and psychological harm. He bleeds out his frustration like an overblown clarinet and wonders if these mind … Continue reading
Posted in Snapshots, WIP
Tagged anger, anger management, archive 2000, Benjamin F Jones, character development, character profile, character sketch, character snapshot, Creative writing, done the dirty, food, graphite bunny, mental health, mind games, modern life, prose poetry, psychological harm, relationships, snapshot, telephone bunny
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For the Sun to Fade Her
What is the question you ask when the coffee is thick as blood and the radiators carry warmth like ants into the hive? I got a parcel this morning, a rare butterfly from Cerro Catedral. I must attach the Latin … Continue reading
Posted in Snapshots
Tagged almost graphite capsule, ants, Benjamin F Jones, breakfast, butterfly, butterfly bunny, cerro catedral, coffee thick as blood, creative prose, Creative writing, entomology, flash, flash fiction, gothic, graphite bunny, horror, marriage, marriage bitterness, mask and boots, October 2012, prose poem, prosepoem, relationship, relationships, snapshot, sun
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Regular Disturbance
The first time she calls the police herself from the phone box across the road. She screams like a preacher. ‘When are you going to do something? He’s locked me out again the bastard.’ There are not enough faces at … Continue reading
Posted in Prose, Snapshots
Tagged ambulance, August 2002, Benjamin F Jones, broken window, can of cider, Creative writing, destruction, domestic violence, emergency services, every day, flash, graphite bunny, hate, hero, love, marriage, mental health, observation exercise, observer bunny, outdoing, paramedics, phone box, police, pontypridd, Prose, relationships, rickards street, sad, self-esteem, violence
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Graphite Bunny 