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slam.fitzsimons
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creator of things: novels•prose poetry•shorts•spoken word performer• bookseller. http://linktr.ee/slamfitzsimons stephenfitzsimons.com
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the most exciting thing in my life at the moment is that I have a dental appointment.
not often I’m snapped doing a spoken word night. im usually working and taking pics.

tonight’s short was pumpkin (on my website).

nice to hear a whole audience gasp at the right moment.

#stories
isnt this how zombie movies start?
A truckload of rhesus monkeys from Tulane university escaped after a crash. The university warned they’re highly aggressive toward humans and infected with hepatitis C, herpes, and COVID.
Monkeys on the loose after truck overturns in Heidelberg; public urged to call 911
A truck transporting monkeys from Tulane University overturned on I-59 near Heidelberg, with several monkeys reportedly on the loose posing health risks.
www.wapt.com
i not sure the thames water would have noticed
but then there are dividends to pay
and streams to pollute
its 2am
how is it 2am
i didn’t plan for it
no one plans for 2am
it just happens
stealthily
point break is on. just saying.
surfs up.
wow, insta quickly filled with ai imaging crap.

so that’s basically dead

so many social media companies
removing the social from the media

cracking the golden egg
just to find
egg inside
accommodation costs
the bar set very low
im not sure how everyone can cover it
i cant help thinking
us adults
have really failed a generation
what have they to look forward to?
debt
ruined environment
ai killing off jobs
lack of housing
poor pensions
why should they
work so hard
for such a legacy?
this is on my mind a lot at the moment
no.1 has taken a year out
but next year
the cost of the fees
saddling themselves with debt
before even getting a qualification
how will that impact getting a mortgage?
how will that impact saving for a pension?

and then there is the means testing
of the
The SNP introduced free tuition and we will always ensure Scottish students do not pay tuition fees.

Meanwhile in England, students pay over £9,500 a year and Labour will put fees up every year.

Education must always be based on the ability to learn, not the ability to pay.
ai would never write
a book by BS Johnson
Steven Hall
Max Porter

it plays safe
it doesn’t know how
to break structure
and grammar rules

its not innovative

its generic

its generic car ads
for the masses

the shiny thing
in value worthless

lacking soul
and vision

don’t say a requiem
told him #poem

then he said
but you know
well of course
he didn’t
yeh of course he did
he did
yeh
and what did you do?
i told him
you didn’t
i did
you really told him
yeh
then what
well he
he didn’t
yeh
and what did you say?
the usual stuff
how did he take it
he was like all that
yeh just like him
looks like the vid won’t post

anyway check out the shop bluesky account
weeks have been hard
if you’re in the UK and want a book
contact us

if not, we do have a Patreon

Here’s a vid to persuade you
today i spent setting up quick books
for the book shop i manage
because it is a cooperative
and on sunday
we have an agm with members

it took me four days to sort

bug eyed from columns today

anyway

the @allgoodbookshop.co.uk could do with some love at the moment
great project
but the last few
the first short story i wrote
was in primary school
it was about snoopy
battling alien invaders
i got a friend
to illustrate it

i was ten
The first short story I wrote that wasn't for school was called 'Long Way Home' and it was a science fiction story. I was sixteen, I think. I typed it on a portable typewriter and Diana Wynne Jones critiqued it for me.
My very first short story ever was an assignment in high school. After that one (I was the only person in three sections of the class to get an "A") I wrote a bunch of short stories for fun. It became my thing, enough so that I have excused my schoolmates from ever having to read me again.
growing up is discovering there are people better at things than you

you suspect it as a kid
but are not really certain
your parents tell you
you’ve done good
or you think
tomorrow will be better
there will be other days

but then you age
and discover
those other days are
dwindling
and you are
no
of flesh
rotting
crawling
crawling in the
moistness
of maggots
writhing
fleshy
flaking
dropping to the floor
in the shadows
where i cant see
i know
there is something there
i can taste it now
on the tip of my tongue
over my teeth
creeping in
and down
into my stomach
and lungs
clawing
twisting
in me
i am sat in this room
the lamps are on
a glass of wine near
all in quiet in the house
yet there is something
lingering
on the edges of
my senses
right on the tip
on a hair
of my nose
a smell
a feint smell
hanging there
building
crawling upwards
into me
out from the shadows
a smell
of decay
of earth
i have drunk a few bottles of wine
the pain lingers
I discovered
today I will
have to wait 6 months
before seeing a dentist
I feel a lot of wine will be drunk
and paracetamol consumed
in that time
wish i had a mobile with one year battery life like ‘the girlfriend.’