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The Grand Old Lady of the Adriatic | Edvard Moonke
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The Grand Old Lady of the Adriatic. Full of tricks, this old girl. Even before you arrive, you are already bound by her demands and caprices. They shall only reach me by boat. And come they did in their droves. I peer behind me at a down-and-out who is sitting on the steps of the bridge. He sits with downcast eyes, smoothing his hair with the last bit of pride that is left in him. Propped up against him is a sign with a message in Italian:. No home, no family. please help. From your own site. So well wri...
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The Overnight Editor: Pilgrimage
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Laquo; Ice and a slice. Service will resume shortly ». Two golden bursts, flashing along a pair of burning silver strips. Like racing magnesium wireflames, weaving, crossing, criss-crossing. Join-rejoining. Curving towards me, then falling away. Train tracks catching the low evening sun. Leeds to London; two-and-a-half hours of an eight-hour round trip. When I asked for a return at King's Cross, the man who sold me the tickets had said That's a very quick turnaround, Sir. 12 May 2008 at 22:49 in Journal.
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The Overnight Editor: The one with the sheep
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There's a time machine on Kingly Street ». The one with the sheep. The panic in the postman's block capitals told me Oskar's mother was up to her tricks again. Sat in the pub last weekend, he showed me the card that had come through the door, the various boxes ticked, asking if Mr Day could please come and collect the parcel they had been unable to deliver. And underneath, in biro, the postman had added URGENTLY PLEASE. Towards the end of the following summer holiday, Oskar spent three weeks away with hi...
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The Overnight Editor: Finding biros on Prince Consort Road
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Laquo; You're not the only one. Reading material ». Finding biros on Prince Consort Road. I'm aware it's only about 18 months since I promised to tell you a story about where missing biros go. It got. mislaid. But here it is. Put it this way: You think you understand the world. Cause, effect, all that. But you don't. And the stuff you do to try to make it understandable just makes things worse. Listen. I dabble. You know; order, chaos all that. We've all played with dodgy copies of FRACTINT. The coffee m...
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The Overnight Editor: Recursion
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Laquo; The nonsense I find myself doing. The one with the sheep ». I'm writing the script for a murder. Nothing too fancy; the sort of thing you see on Crimewatch. Speaking of which. Friend of mine; budding actor. Got a job as a reconstruction artist; playing the criminals on true-life crime shows. Problem is, there aren't enough criminals that look like him, so the work's a little sparse. What happens when you go to prison? Maybe I'll get a lawyer. They're still there for all I know. So: Stunt-laden car...
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The Overnight Editor: Two pieces of news
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Laquo; Service will resume shortly. Round Two ». Two pieces of news. A week flies. Two bits of news while I have been away: . I went to see Isabelle. It is like the opening pages of War of the Worlds. Something significant has landed, but no-one quite knows what it means. Soon we will both write about it, I know, and weave the strands together. All 84 of them. Secondly, the burgeoning Peach. And her helpers have completed Youre Not The Only One. 10 of the 12.50 cover price goes to Warchild. Random ac...
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The Overnight Editor: Round Two
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Laquo; Two pieces of news. Rumours of my death. ». Led me to a small, diagonal town. Not like the city, which is straight up and down,. But with roads that slanted. And old houses that leaned into the years. In a gale, and at an angle. I'd followed breadcrumbs to the door of the shop. On top of the hill. And well, yes, almost from the jangle. We knew each other, not quite straight away. But from what we'd written, what we'd read. Isabelle is beautiful, by the way,. The mermaid of her paintings. We left o...
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The Overnight Editor: There's a time machine on Kingly Street
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Laquo; The one with the sheep. There's a time machine on Kingly Street. This last Friday, must've been gone midnight, I stumble out the pub into the charcoal-orange of Kingly Street. Noise behind. A naked man sprints past, all pelt, followed about ten metres behind by a guy in a black puffer jacket. I smile - love this town. The puffer jacket stops, steadies, and slowly raises his arm. The naked man half-somersaults, splats chest-down onto the wet pavement and tumbles over into a broken heap. Must've sta...
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The Overnight Editor: Meet me at St. Pancras
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Laquo; Catch Up. Labradoodle pike ». Meet me at St. Pancras. Sorry I've not been posting. I've developed a sideline. A specialist market, and a way of putting my insomnia, and addiction to nocturnal photography, to some use. A tiny, laser-cut aperture plate that enables ultra-long exposures; down to barely a handful of photons at a time. Couple that with ultra-slow wet-film processing and a large format camera, and I can take exposures at high detail lasting over a fortnight or more. She looked lovely, c...
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The Overnight Editor: Do not exceed the stated dose
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On Holiday ». Do not exceed the stated dose. Aka sixty-two things inanimate objects told me to do this month. Do not exceed the stated dose. Do not wash with brightly-coloured clothes. Do not dispose of in fire. Do not iron. For hire. Made in a factory where nuts are used. Press tablets through from other side. No user-serviceable parts inside. No parking. Fragile. Do not use door while. Vehicle is in motion. Always reject if seal is broken. Shake before use. Contents may come loose. Use only as directed.
