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Proto Texts, Musings, Incremental Poetry, Articles, and Writing Updates from Nicholas Cockayne

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  • Solitary Wanderings

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 08:02 in fiction, short

    The first part of this piece started life as an independent entity, written while sitting on the pebbles of a sunnyish Brighton beach. You can find it by itself in it's original form under the title of 'Coasting'. However, I ended up liking the na...

  • Guilt Drive

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 07:58 in fiction, short

    A crazy, stream of consciousness, story. Great fun to read out loud to others, written to be read out loud.Guilt DriveSquare eyes, television glasses, the headlights on glass frames make little squares of light framing my world. Makes it hard to dr...

  • Twelve o'clock.

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 07:51

    A strange little nugget, sparked, I think, from the natural evolution that you get in a writing group, when each week, whether you like it or not, your writing is shaped by the ideas being thrown around. I am half tempted to think I wrote it in orde...

  • Denied

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 07:44 in poetry

    Bubbling up from the depths of time, I can't even remember where this one comes from or when it was written. A little piece of amber frozen poetry, from a different time, place, and person.DeniedStanding upon the cobbled streets,Fingernails torn and...

  • A Love Yet To Be

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 07:32 in poetry

    Written many years ago for, and inspired by, a friend of mine. I also used lives from this as chapter sub headings in 'Diary of a Heretic'. Here it is in it's un-butchered original form. Enjoy.A Love Yet To BeSitting alone, at a desk in the darkSh...

  • Caroline Jane Something

    Posted on Saturday June 27th, 2009 at 07:28 in poetry

    A tiny verse, written to capture a sparkling moment of not-quite, shouldhave-couldhave.Caroline-Jane SomethingThe tennis lot marched, rackets held to attention, flankedBy the pony set in svelte formation. By the numbers,And double-time. With wine w...

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