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These were the lessons.

What was the desired effect?

You're Gonna Need Somebody On Your Bond by Gary Cummiskey

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He is dead. (Il est mort.)
And how would you say that as a question?

Journey To The West by Gary Cummiskey

Junk Mail

Albert had worked with Juanita in the same envelope factory for 8 years and had only decided in the last 6 months that he was in love with her. They worked in different sections of the factory and in all those years Albert had barely said ten words to her. For months Albert dithered on how he would declare his love to her. Eventually one Friday, frustrated, he decided he would write her an email. Albert spent all of that day crafting the email, spending two hours alone on the subject header, until it became, what can neutrally be described, as the most devastating love email ever composed. Unfortunately, when Albert hit the send button the email went not to Juanita’s inbox but to her spam folder. It seemed that the language of love was identical to the language of junk mail in the eyes of the factory’s spam filter. Albert waited patiently for two weeks for a reply before committing suicide. Before doing so, he wrote Juanita a suicide note and then popped it into a postbox. Upon receiving it, Juanita, sick to death of dealing with envelopes all day, tossed it into the bin.

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When love affairs begin on trains you think they can go anywhere, and the price of thinking this on the West Coast Mainline is disappointment. This is romance: some waste ground next to the viaducts, and the sound of a car alarm. This is life thereafter: the bills get redder, and the lights go out without anybody touching the switch. But then he’ll smile and say, ‘magic’ and light some candles.

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Portrait 2 by Gary Cummiskey

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The funeral was beginning and they lowered their voices. He took her hand and kissed it, but suddenly his nose wrinkled and his grip tightened. He pressed her hand to his face like a handkerchief and inhaled sharply. ‘What’s that smell on your fingers?’ ‘Nothing,’ she tries to draw her hand away but he holds it tight. ‘It’s just jojoba oil.’ He throws her hand back to her: ‘You think I don’t know?’ He turns away. ‘It’s pussy.’

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Portrait 1 by Gary Cummiskey

Spent by Danielle Naidoo

I should be saving for something.
Or saving something.
I'm spent.

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