Nathan’s mouth cancer got worse. It was the cigarettes of course and the futility and the lies he had to face within the system. When the mouth cancer first appeared like that oyster shaped and white coloured thing that it was, Nathan thought he had AIDS. Google said you’ve got AIDS! He should see the…
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Nathan was disappointed for a moment as the realisation sunk in that they had satirised the planet by killing. So much killing had saturated the planet through the media of television and movies and newspapers that Christianity had all but faded into a whimper. It was true the world had finished with a whimper and…
“Don’t go there, don’t go near there,” said Ma Joad. Where the answer was the barman and the new manager of the Moon City Hotel. If you do go there wear comfortable shoes unlike Nathan’s tight sneakers. Nathan’s arsehole reputation and his shoes were too tight and they preceded him like the cheap clothes he…
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Stuck at home watching Pam and Felicity solve another extraordinary overrated crime, Pandora made another cup of tea before being anally probed by her none too girted husband in the bedroom where she had slept alone for far too many years. Her anal fixation came and went like her memories. It was not complete, or…
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He kissed her over the proposed palliative care bed. It was a smack really and their lips had never met between them this way during their lives and it would never happen again this way. There had been pecks on the cheek but never one on the lips for such length. A smack. Nathan stood…
Nathan cried his rapture to the Gods… and they were prepared to listen and take note. It was a personal experience of taste and tenderness. It was the tale of snails or oysters. He listened to his social worker speak to him at the pub. He had a new one this time and he was…
Anne’s vibrator broke down and so did Anne. “Why now?,” she gasped at the point of orgasm. “Perhaps it’s the batteries again,” said her lover and second in command at the mental health unit whose name was Pippi. “What mischief shall we get up to today?,” asked Pippi. “I have my idee fixe as you…
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Remote viewing which is a specified type of telepathy or clairvoyance is when a person can see through the eyes of someone else, and in the John Carpenter (1948-) penned thriller The Eyes of Laura Mars (1978), this gift or curse is given a savage twist. The movie opens with the negative side of the…
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The 1970s Richard Burton (1925-1984 brain haemorrhage) movie The Medusa Touch (1978) is about telekinesis among other psychic abilities and it reminded me of an item on the news about a house fire somewhere in the suburbs which ended with the reporter saying: “and it is reported by police that the fire wasn’t started by…
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Oh my God, thought Nathan to himself: It’s gone! All that work and it’s gone.Yes, the manuscript which he had so tirelessly worked and slaved over all those years ago and had resurrected from the trash at his parent’s house was gone. Who were the suspects? Could it be King Goona, that charming schizophrenic who…
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