Monthly Archives: April 2013

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April 10, 2013 · by · in Uncategorized · 4 Comments

late morning underneath a big green tree there is you and there is me the things we haven’t done fall between us with the leaves regrets and dreams soft now between our feet they draw the sting from the fact that I was born and you must die now. here. there is only you and […]

The Life of A Machine Operator on a Platinum Mine

April 10, 2013 · by · in Uncategorized · 9 Comments

I took these photos in Baphong Village last week. Fernandez lives in a shack adjacent to the royal graveyard where village chiefs are buried. Fernandez is in his forties and can expect to work for another decade. He has two wives and eight children back home in Mozambique and is worried that he has very […]

The problem with affection:

April 9, 2013 · by · in Mandy de Waal (ZA), Poetry · 3 Comments

  Sentimentality took the knife plunged it in Truth’s heart, and twisted. “Die you must,” said the voice – filled with melodrama. “Die you must, so I can live.”   [photo by Franco Folini on Flickr]

The Peddlers Of Smut, Fragment 5

April 4, 2013 · by · in Max Barashenkov, Pulp, Sci-Fi · 6 Comments

[life goes on, the story evolves, some facts change, same shit in the end] The Norm When the alarm sounded, I was at my station and everything around me stank of shit. The keyboard, the screen, my half-eaten sandwich, me, all of it. It was the Adjustment and I was peaking hard. Part man, part […]

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