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Tag Archives: surreal
Washing-up liquid and isolation
The trilobite climbs from the kitchen sink and sits on the draining board. Spring ahead of its appointment opens crocuses and daffodil towers of yellow. A wood fire circulates heat into the radiators, hot coffee circulates heat into me. Sunlight … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Snapshots
Tagged Benjamin F Jones, bubbles, carapace bunny, competitive dad outtake, creative prose, Creative writing, dreamy, evolution, flash, full time dad, graphite bunny, Isolation, new baby, prose poetry, rhondda writing ynyshir, sparrows, spring sunshine, surreal, trilobite, washing up
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Nose to nose with her rabbit
It’s five-thirty in the morning. The rooks scream but I cannot see them, their sounds are vaccinations in the mist. The terraces are unlit but at one window I see a face. A young girl stares out, arms a triangle … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Snapshots
Tagged before sunup, Benjamin F Jones, brief prose, bus travel, creative prose, Creative writing, dream writing, dreaming bunny, dreams about slugs, flash, graphite bunny, how dreams are made, rabbit, Rhondda, rooks, salt, short prose, slugs, stagecoach 132, stagecoach 132 ynyshir, surreal, terraces, Ynyshir, young girl awake
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Impromptu road repair
Last week a girl drowned while swimming in a puddle on Hannah Street. Today two men stop their van outside my window. Their bituminous truck blocks the high street as the driver jumps out, flips down the tailgate and shovels … Continue reading
Posted in Prose Poetry
Tagged absurd, Benjamin F Jones, bitumen, council workers, creative prose, Creative writing, drowning, end of shift, graphite bunny, Hannah street, Humour, impromptu, nonsense, Porth, prose poem, prose poetry, road repair, short prose, surreal, tarmac, wreath
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Let there be a fitting
The Bench Governor created the engagement because the relationship was without forum and void. Without marriage the engagement was a failure of the deep. It was spring and there should be a wedding in the air. And the Governor moved … Continue reading
Posted in Flash, Snapshots
Tagged abstract, Benjamin F Jones, constrained writing techniques, Creative writing, engagement, experimental, flash, graphite bunny, lexical classes, marriage, nouns, oulipo, Prose, S+7, short prose, sonic flash, surreal, surrealism, The Bench Governor, trick yielding funeral, wedding bunny, wedding planner, whisk
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Shooting off their saucy birthrights
The waterproof-creels were not thrilled to be polite and well behaved. And by some silly birthright they were expected to keep that way. The courtroom was already messed up, its sofas covered in loons and plumes and screaming filibuster minnows. … Continue reading
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Tagged abstract, behaviour, Benjamin F Jones, constrained writing techniques, Creative writing, daddy bunny, experimental, flash, graphite bunny, law and order, lexical classes, mermen, N+7, nouns, oulipo, Ouvroir de littérature potentielle, Prose, punishment, S+7, science fiction, screaming filibuster minnows, short prose, sonic flash, subdued by drowning, surreal, surrealism, waterproof-creels, whisk
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