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Tag: John Grey

“Emma Marries for the First Time at 54” by John Grey

Posted on February 13, 2023

It’s part dream, part afterthought. All those years, Cupid’s arrows  landed wide of the mark,  struck her friends instead. And now, at last, one thumps into her glutenous maximus. It’s […]

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“Drowned Man Lives Again” by John Grey

Posted on January 28, 2022

There was a lot of crazy thrashing at first and I was cursing myself for not keeping at it with those swimming lessons, and I had unkind words for the […]

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“The Dunes” by John Grey

Posted on August 2, 2021

A walk over the dunes, round a naked headland crisp white sand the walk liberating an escape from routine the hues golden, rising and flowing, and taking account of my […]

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“At the Art Opening” by John Grey

Posted on December 18, 2020

No one is enlightening this mass of all masses. Everywhere I look, the paintings are in a language my inner voice can’t translate. I feel as if my eyes are […]

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“Field Trip” by John Grey

Posted on November 9, 2020

You wake up on the fourth floor to the garbled coo of some window-shopping pigeons, dress quickly, pick at breakfast, clamber down the dark stairwell with ears closed.  Today, no […]

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“The Next One Who Dies Had Better Be Living” by John Grey

Posted on April 6, 2020

Kill the funeral please.Mow down the mourners.Assassinate the coffin. Hey. pallbearers,hands up. don’t move.And preacher man…none of your phony speeches…heaven’s what I say it is. Don’t you know how muchI […]

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“The Couple Almost” by John Grey

Posted on April 17, 2017

She camouflaged herself at a darkened far table, idled away time by tapping a spoon against her drink glass;   on the opposite side of the hall, similarly nervous and […]

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“Judy and Modern Medicine” by John Grey

Posted on January 9, 2017

The doctor’s handsome and that makes it worse… more bad news from the lips of handsome men. We need more tests, he says. Well no lover ever put it in […]

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“Rowena’s Poetry” by John Grey

Posted on September 26, 2016

She reads new poetry in old settings, antique store turned coffee house, dressed in black sweater, skirt and stockings, perched on the edge of a table. a lotus sipping coffee […]

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