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By David Bausor
Published Monday 2 February 2009
“Attention, Class of 2058!”
Zhen, seated in the back row, watched the heads turn towards the sound of the teacher’s voice. The teacher adjusted her brand-new regulation outfit again. She had been trying to make it sit comfortably for most of the trip.
“Soon we are visiting London’s famous Tate Modern Art Gallery.”
An appreciative murmur rippled through [...]
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Tags: Art, LOVE, New, Old, Tate
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By Jacqueline Danziger-Russell
Published Monday 2 February 2009
The snow fell
But who was there to say
Anything about it; anything at all
A rook cackled, inspected the ground, hoping
The snow fell softly on Bone Hill
And all was quiet; silent
No one there to tell
O, Jerusalem
Your green and pleasant land now gone
Covered by stone
Relegated to dark, green garden corners
Covered by mud and a drift of white
All that [...]
Read Londinium Requiem...
Tags: aftermath, Hope, nature, requiem
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By Benjamin Wolf Telushkin
Published Monday 2 February 2009
Quickness is a normality. He did not feel that way in the drunken state he was in. The few people on the street looked unreal yet familiar. Time Square was populated by people who took in an interest in the actual “closeness” of something. As if that were vital to ones perspective.
He, however, was only [...]
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By Matt Trainer
Published Monday 2 February 2009
I looked out through the smeared windows of the Bexley charging station on the A2, waiting for my car to chime. Less than an hour from Victoria and the battery had packed in again.
More than ninety consecutive days of rain – the most since records began, the screens were saying – had left the landscape [...]
Read Seed Culture...
Tags: genetics
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By Anisa Sarah Hawes
Published Monday 2 February 2009
(fragment)
I dreamt of a Catherine-wheel inside an aeroplane. I could see it in the sky, in the arc of open (above the tracks and the footbridge) from where I was sitting on the platform at the station.
I watched the kite-tails, ribbons, flicking and curling and spinning around the planes’ round body in screams [...]
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Tags: fragment, impermanent, looming, momentum, restless, stillness, undisturbed
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By Salena Godden
Published Monday 2 February 2009
Directly I came into The French House I could see the poor sod had been sitting
there crying about it. I had to keep my head and if I ran straight over he might’ve started blubbing all over again, so I nodded over to him and stood at the bar and ordered a bottle of black [...]
Read A Valentine At Waterloo Is Worth Two Dutchmen In The French...
Tags: babies, boys, Waterloo
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By Max Pemble
Published Monday 2 February 2009
The water is warm. I close my eyes and I imagine the tropics. The tropics in springtime, when the ocean is filled with the sounds of the young: exploring, learning, feeding and growing. The sunlight drifts through and it warms and
massages my skin. When I go up to take a breath the air tastes sweet [...]
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By Stuart Peel
Published Monday 2 February 2009
“Peter…”, Michael tried to sound helpful,
“What !”, Peter turned round slowly, and glared down the ladder,
“Erm…”, Michael arranged his features sympathetically and remembered yesterday’s tantrum, “…well I think that maybe…”, he paused as his courage deserted him,
“What !!”, Peter narrowed his eyes and took a step back down the ladder,
“It’s just a tad…”, he put his [...]
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By Amy Gould
Published Friday 30 January 2009
Ella is my best hatch. I plait her white blonde hair in junior assembly, and morning break she whispers in my ear. I love her best for her PowerGirl play castle and her pink fluffy Google pen. And when she says ‘I love you, bee’, and I reply,‘I love you bee hatch.’
Ella’s also my girlfriend, [...]
Read The dealer’s daughter...
Tags: childhood, family, future, law, LOVE, police, smoking, tottenham
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By John Soanes
Published Friday 30 January 2009
The noises woke me again last night.
It’s become a kind of etiquette thing, we all pretend not to be able to hear the sounds of people having sex, and so we all act as if we’re still asleep. Perhaps pull the blanket up a little higher, turn over in the bed or make some indistinct [...]
Read Brittle...
Tags: Creaking, Film, Floodtide, Nelson, Statues
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By Melissa Mann
Published Friday 30 January 2009
You stand in front of the class knowing this thing you’ll do will happen soon. If you’d known it would come to this when you started teaching in 2036, you would have stopped while you still had the chance. But that was over twenty years ago and you are where you are; now it feels [...]
Read EMPTY HAND...
Tags: gun, obesity, self-empowerment, violence
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By Mark Giacomin
Published Thursday 29 January 2009
A gradual atavism held London in thrall. Relentless downpours and rising water levels had led to monolithic aluminum rigidams fencing in the Thames. A once mighty river eddied pitifully, tapping the barriers like an apologetic asylum seeker.
A glut of flat-packed messiahs ranted at Speakers’ Corner. People flocked to hear the gilded tongues of mendicants. When [...]
Read Umbrae...
Tags: Apocalyptic, Darkness, Flood
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By Susie Bright
Published Thursday 29 January 2009
20.05.2058
I remember back in Thirty Nine all the campaigning and competitions to save one building. Each Capitol City was given the chance to save one special building. Somewhere to retreat to, grow food in the Hydroponics Galleries, somewhere to watch the rain. The endless deluge. London voted for Tate Modern. The Artists won. And the [...]
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Tags: Artist, Artworks, Deluge, rain, Remember, Speedboat
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By racineux david
Published Thursday 29 January 2009
I am living in front of the ocean, I don’t know which one, only “the ocean”.
I am living near the river. I am living and everyday, it’s rainning.
Everyday I look for the ocean, for the line formed between sky and sea, and for hour I don’t know what’s happend
somewhere else, and I don’t care.
From the moment of my [...]
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Tags: loneliness
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By Anthony Scott
Published Thursday 29 January 2009
Since the Second Barrier had failed a month ago, the bodies washed up against the sandbags at every high tide, the flotsam of Tilbury and Gravesend. The Third and Fourth Barriers didn’t justify their names only channelling the run-off into Essex and Kent. As for the original, it might keep the occasional eel from squirming [...]
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Tags: algae, flotsam, iceberg, jetsam, kelp, Lagan, mildew, Perec, Southwark
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By Oliver O'Sullivan
Published Thursday 29 January 2009
Eachvigorous line of his election rally home-coming speech was punctuated by vocal chord-straining screams and red-palmed applause. People had traveled far and wide to see him tall above his pulpit, to see his engine room eyes and pianist’s hands playing the air as if puppeteered by ethereal strings. The
mantra of his chanted name swirled into [...]
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Tags: British, future, Politics, Popular
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By Oliver Jones
Published Thursday 29 January 2009
“It’s about time I stopped and stretched my legs” I thought with a synchronised yawn and a glance out of the window. Light rain, funny, all I could see were blue skies; they dragged me to the door drunkenly shoving a
mobile around my neck.
At that very moment the notion hit me, for that brief moment my lung expands [...]
Read Time Enough...
Tags: Longevity, Network, Utopia
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By Rachel Stevenson
Published Wednesday 28 January 2009
158 days, that’s how long it’s been. 158 days, at least according to the Royal Meteorological Office and we have no reason to doubt them – their minute by minute 100% accurate weather predictions are appreciated by all. Today we’ll have rain, sleet, 90% humidity, cloud, hail and, at 18:17, a heat-storm. All of these [...]
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Tags: adapt, aid, dark, light, mutual, Sun, survive
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By Rob Dysaut
Published Wednesday 28 January 2009
Fat drops of wet splash upon my naked eyes. This is because my head is tilted back as far as it can go. My throat exposed like a ready sacrifice: it’s not a comfortable sensation and an ache has coalesced in the base of my neck and is steadily creeping down my spine. Presumably this [...]
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Tags: Art, future, Hope
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By Fiona MacDonald
Published Wednesday 28 January 2009
Ink’s favourite hobby is stargazing. She sits at her telescope night after night and stares up at the stars and the planets, and at the lights that flitter between them, moments of sparkling intensity where people live their lives and await that moment of arrival when they can
finally see their dreams coalesce into reality.
They’re all up there, [...]
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Tags: dreams, future, grey, Hope, rain
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By Nigel Envarli Crowe
Published Wednesday 28 January 2009
When I awake, there is a shining floor far below. I am suspended over a distant sea of concrete. I lurch and a tide of queasy fever sweeps through me.
A crane lifts a person up to my level. He is naked and unmoving, face down in a slanted, standing position. A tiny penis waggles in [...]
Read Out of Oppression Emerges a Unified People...
Tags: Ambiguity, Artendant, Articipant, Piracy
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By Chrissie Gittins
Published Tuesday 27 January 2009
Gaby timed her breakfast boiled egg to the aeroplanes flying overhead – one minute, two minutes, three minutes. It was always exactly right, an ochre yolk and a slippery white, free-range level 6 – she wouldn’t buy anything less. She switched on the news out of habit. “The headlines for this Monday morning at seven [...]
Read The Summer Triangle...
Tags: stars, Sydenham, travel
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By Dave Early
Published Tuesday 27 January 2009
This one’s by that Stuart Treadle chappy. Y’know, the bloke off that reality-cum-interactive TV thingy. He won it the other year, I think. A substantial victory to be sure. I don’t watch that stuff, myself. But I hear it’s very popular. People try to justify their interest in it. And so they should. But there [...]
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By Dave Early
Published Tuesday 27 January 2009
The throng pulsed. Filthy soles parading through his living room. But he did not mind. He was used to it. And understood their urgency, their joy, their anxiety, their stress, anger and excitement. They left him alone to make his preparations and in turn he allowed them free passage. A few glances askance and the [...]
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By Mary Braithwaite
Published Tuesday 27 January 2009
‘Dear little lamb
prancing in meadows
we think you’re a pet
so sweet and so gentle.
Dear little lamb
so white and woven
we want your leg
to roast in our oven.’
The planet looks blue and green and scattered around like a beautiful embroidery are the lovely animals. Against the green fields are the white of sheep, the darker colours of horses [...]
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Tags: better, potential, world
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