Were they wrong on Vietnam? No. Were they wrong on South Africa? No. Were they wrong on Iraq? No. They won’t be wrong on Israel, either. Signed, A Historian.

We added snorkelling to our bucket list knowing time was running out.

We swam with reef sharks, #green turtles, and fish of every colour for burnt backs and bleached coral.

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Cream puffs with strawberry jam. Contagious belly-rolling laughter. Scent of Opium. Long white socks with sandals under Kaftan dresses. Readers Digest and cigarette stubs.

In #essence , memories of you.

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He’d move to Japan.

She’d move too under three conditions; not near an active volcano, the tsunami coastline or earthquake zone.

He settles with a tatami room and hot tub.
#30word30days #earth

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This weekend we march. Don’t shoot! We were provoked by the impotence of our leaders. Again.

A triumph of democracy?

Nah, gotta pass the pub test to #shape this nation.

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Her courage and resilience weren’t #lost , just dusty with layers of slurs and put-downs while he wore her loneliness like a polished medallion.

A stranger’s knowing look changed everything.

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A moment. A brain fade. A mistake. They say you can’t #wind back the clock but curled up in a ball in her mother’s arms she remembered a time before.
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Another role, another typecast. She’d out-perform the mumsy librarian characters with their wholesome brood whose lives were choreographed into song and dance but she longed to play the beast.

#30words30days #character

The similarities were striking; a widow’s peak, detached earlobes, left-handedness, dimples, curly hair and a Morton’s toe.

Mumma claimed immaculate conception despite regretfully remembering how she jumped his #bones .
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So much rain. Sheets of #water spilled over the gutters. He chased drips with an obstacle of buckets, and upturned saucepan lids.

She wouldn’t say it…but it burst forth.

#30words30days #water

She straddles the #void , one foot in one world, one in another.

If she pin-jumps into the darkness will her worlds implode?

With nothing left to lose she dives.

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