Category: Opinions-Editorial
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Writing Lessons
Last week I learnt a few things about writing. Novel I’m probably tired of talking about the novel. It’s set in the present but with a backstory from the past. My major problem is that the backstory is quite intrusive, so intrusive in fact that it cannot be told in flashbacks without spoiling the present […]
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The Feminist Card
“You know me… I either bring the best out of people or the worst…” A mere musing to myself. But a few weeks later, the remark returned to me. Adversely. Not only that but he played the feminist card. On me… This person had hurriedly and thoughtlessly implemented a change that had adversely affected many […]
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Ebb and Flow
Catch your breath in wonder After all you don’t know The stream’s next curve Even its ebb and flow. #micropoem #MWF18
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Budget 2018
May’s Federal Budget, the standard script. The lock up from which no one escapes! Winners! (Everybody rejoice). Losers! (No one important). Next the wide-eyed superficial analysis. The breathless interviews with families singles, couples, pensioners, wage earners, etc fully economically briefed. The joyously satisfied interest groups. We always set aside the whispers and whispers of the few […]
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Think What I Want (The Power of Lying)
“What happened Cynthia?” “Tommy broke the swing. He jumped up and down, round and round, up and down, round and round, till it broke.” Mummy’s green eyes went black. She’s looking through me again. “Cynthia, are you lying to me?” Mummy’s voice was in my head. Think nothing, say nothing, Mummy can’t hear me anyways. What about […]
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If her words return unbidden to me.
If her words return unbidden to me Freely released from her hidden fear, Perhaps my silence would call her heart near, And so reveal our love’s infinity. Her words now heard open my eyes to see, For my still heart still cowers in fear, Her love cloaked in silence draws near, The quiet of white […]
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Bang! Crash! Wallop! The Real Game Of Cricket.
Bang! Crash! Wallop! Throbbing music and flashing lights. People stomping, clapping and shouting. That was me last Friday night. I wasn’t at the movies. Not at a concert. No, not even a nightclub. I was at the cricket. The T20 womens’ cricket game between Australia and England. To decide the Ashes! Which we won. Heat, light […]
Andrew James Whalan 