Kith and Kiln: Short Stories

I love its stories within a story structure and blazing images. He had sad but fascinating stories about Lowell excitedly reciting his poems in the kitchen while he Frank and his wife were trying to retire to bed! Normal is often weird and vice-versa. This collection celebrates evocative tales of oddness that span the genres of magic realism, the supernatural, the fantastical and the speculative.

Weirdness lurks beyond the margins of the mundane, emerging to dismantle our assumptions of reality. When we encounter strange intervals, our perception of the natural order is challenged and changed. It is perhaps in those moments, that we glimpse the hidden truth of all things.

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Dark in the Day is an anthology of weird fiction, penned by established writers and also those new to the genre — the latter being authors who are, or were, students of Creative Writing at Staffordshire University, where editor Storm Constantine occasionally delivers guest lectures. Her co-editor, Paul Houghton, is the senior lecturer in Creative Writing at the university. People from the local community were treated to an evening of storytelling on the subject of crime and fear as part of Fringe Here is the text of the poem and a link to the broadcast: Am I still here?

Do you see me notch the oxide sunset like an ancient etching? If I could speak I would talk in round vowels of wom and dome, and I'd ask you to stay-- but my throat is damp with rain without the rasp of caulk-smoke from my clayfire belly. If you must leave me, then do it quick before you see me untruss myself brick by brick 'til I am just a spill of sheeded powder whispered on history's lips like a cipher. Do you see me?

I hope that you enjoy them: Pictures on TV Darker people dying, Suffering and crying. What do I see of it? Flesh wounds are a blur A stain of red, a wail of dread Gunshots whistle over whose head? What do I feel of it, Cuddled on this couch?

My cigarette is out, Uncomfortable, I shift about. A young man tells his tale, sharp-featured, Torture too terrible. They always suffer, those with dark eyes, They always have. They hardly feel it. I wish I could get comfortable. What does it do to me, El Salvador? Those eyes plucked out were bright before, Legs cracked moved swift before, Lips so swollen kissed before.

How stupid the sad clown, or the happy clown. How despicable our sentiment. Blubber lips, wet eyes, near tears, Hangdog, slouched, insomniac. Poor kleptomaniac, megalomaniac, Poor pre-menstrually tense, agrophobe, claustrophobe. Banter is part of life. Legal activists and migrant forums have asked for more transparency at different levels to curb the illegal methods seemingly being adopted by some Asian expatriates to pocket the death compensation blood money awarded by local courts for the kith and kin of those individuals dying in accidents in the country.

Call to ensure transparency in blood money awards. Maj-Gen Al Menhali said the committee considered applications for a number of cases and carried out necessary medical examinations in preparation for reuniting them with their kith and kin and integrating them into the UAE society.

Panel meets kids of Emiratis in Indonesia.

To the left they would have seen the contemporary gallery, currently hosting a new glass and ceramics exhibition called Kith and Kin. They are also usually quite bound up in their family, so do show an interest and don't ever criticise their kith and kin , as that - along with any mentions of your old lovers of course - could well KO the relationship. Cancer; June July Christmas is for kith and kin Regardless of race or colour of skin Whilst shepherds watch their flocks by night There are those who have to stand and fight On sand, at sea and in the air Maintaining peace they watch and stare.

And I'd be lucky to get a good long talk with any of the kith and kin. He said only 10 plots were given to the kith and kin and employees of the influential by the housing department, showing fulfilling the criteria of the project.

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Senate housing committee flays Kakar's behaviour. They said that the government should launch a special rehabilitation programme for the kith and kin of militants under which they should be ensured the provision of all basic facilities including the education, as it had been observed that a deep sense of deprivation was the main driving force falling the frustrated youths of tribal and backward areas into the hands of anti-state and vested elements.

Govt asked to rehabilitate kith, kin of militants. This change in visa rules means that in the near future they will be able to freely stroll into this country "And at the same time our kith and kin from the Commonwealth countries such as Australia and Canada are grilled when they arrive here. Anger at visa change.