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One Year Sober (opens the original)
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I have lived the majority of my life in a contradiction.I’m a dreamer. I believe in people. I believe in living a life beyond the acceptable. I love imagination and stories and hope.I’m also terrified. And I always have been.Those two sides have been playing an endless game of tug of war inside me for as long as I can remember.It’s exhausting.It’s hard to build a life when you’re eternally occupied with surviving one.When I was eight years old, we found ourselves living in a four-bedroom house.
Adulthood - A Review (opens the original)
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So, I’m Tom Furlong. A thirty four year old man who up until recently has had a, you can say complicated relationship with the stable version of adulthood. I’ve spent the best part of the last year reluctantly giving it a go.And I have some fucking thoughts.This is my review. Spoiler alert - I don’t love it.First off, and I think it’s one of the true failures of our schooling system that we don’t learn this, it costs approximately sixty pounds just to be alive every day.You pay your bills. You b
Chair 20 (opens the original)
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“We’d like to send you an ambulance, but if you are able, it may be quicker for you to make your own way to A&E.”Well. Alright. Erm. Fuck.I guess I’m going to hospital?It was 10:30am on Monday morning. I had gotten up and walked Nala, been to the gym and logged into work. Not the actions of a man who considered himself to need urgent medical care…I’d been getting headaches in the gym for a few days, on Monday morning there was also a teeny bit of dizziness and a smidgen of blurred vision, but I
The Visitor - Chapters 1-17 (Draft Two) (opens the original)
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OneAn emerald mist has been sitting amongst the clouds of Merseyside for the past three weeks. Not quite enough to cause alarm, that would come later. But enough that every now and again, a couple on their evening walk would pause and admire the wonders of the night sky. The human mind is very good at keeping itself safe. But safety was not Oscar Benton’s concern tonight. Why would it be. He was sitting in his home office, as he always was on Wednesday evening. As he worked on the latest piece h
The Visitor - Chapters 12-16 (opens the original)
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TwelveOscar felt relaxed as he woke up. That was one of the reasons he found Julia so intoxicating. He wasn’t very good at relaxing when he was alone.She shifted her weight and turned her head towards his, one eye still glued shut with sleep “Have you been lying there staring at me again? It’s weird dude.” She rested her head on his chest before speaking again. “Okay, last night definitely counts as a date. And you did good. Really good. But I think we should get back to work now. What do you th
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