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Frank Lampard

Mar 182013

With hair gelled to tiny spikes and skin pink from blade and Lynx, the Sidcup boys in their crisp white Saturday shirts all look vaguely like friends of Frank Lampard.

Looking back through the clouds…

Is This What People Do?

by Matt Haynes
The lorries are starting to move now, rumbling across the deck of the James Newman and onto the ramps that shake and ring beneath their tyres. He is supposed to leave too, supposed to climb the yellow metal steps from the passenger deck to the red metal gates that always remind him of Meccano. There is an announcement over the tannoy, every time a ferry docks, forbidding passengers to remain on board. [read more...]

Leo

by Colin Tucker
I retreated to the bedroom determined to concentrate on work. I’m not happy unless I’m managing at least a thousand words a day. My exercise books sat on a small table, one for the novel, three for short stories, one for general observations and two blank, though one of these had 'BBC' written on the cover. I opened it and unscrewed the cap on my Sheaffer pen. Motive, I thought, the murderer needs a good motive. Marigold came in and sat on the bed. My mind went blank. [read more...]