Sometimes, when a storm breaks days of stifling, sticky humidity and lightning cracks open fissures in the night sky you can hear the women of Lextalionis laughing. In the dead women’s place they laugh all the time unless of course it’s The Screaming Hour, but generally their world peals with…
Tag: sexual abuse
The Rearrangement: a modern story
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Martin
His flat was a dump. It smelled of damp and cigarettes and grease, three day old chow mein and the sour cheese tang of unwashed man. He was sat on his lumpy, worn sofa gulping down a can of cheap supermarket lager and idly stroking his manhood. Moans and grunts…
Growing Old Wisely
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70,000 men
I kept trying to imagine this figure when I first heard about it this morning. I wanted to get an eyeball on it in some sort of perspective. Picture in my minds eye this huge amount of men. I needed something to compare it with. So I did a bit…
Words
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Women Know Who the Danger Is
There’s a truth women carry with them every day, a truth so obvious it’s practically tattooed on our consciousness: we know who the danger is. It’s not a secret to us. It never has been. Not to us anyway. Yesterday I read an article about sex in the back rooms…
Killing Bill
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Killing Bills
I am sick to my stomach. Sometimes I think I’ve heard it all, but no. Can you imagine being told by the police that your husband has been drugging and raping you for a very long time and that also you’ve been raped by about 72 strangers? Nah this is…
misogyny
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Far right or just right?
The only problem with being accused of being called far right is the stupidity and complete denial of reality of the accusers. I remember my mum saying to us as children when we asked ”you’re church of England”. I have no idea to this day what that meant but it…
Growing Old Wisely
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Hello to 2024
2023 has been kind to me in lot’s of ways. I’m very grateful for where I live, for my continuing good health and for my relationships with my daughter and big brother and his wife. I feel very lucky. Last year I gave up on the people that sapped me…
I remember as a teen
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RAPE
Russel Brand. You only have to look at him or listen to his ‘comedy’ for ten minutes to know he adores himself. He’s tall, slim and has lots of hair, a massive ego and the gift of the gab. He’s also famous. Women have fallen at his knees and he…
I remember as a teen
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When the purge comes…
Russel Brand, accused of sexual assault and rape. Well who would have believed it? Me for starters. You only have to look at the sleaze bag and his permanently open mouth and gritted teeth. I can smell his bad breath and cheesy penis from here. I wonder how many haven’t…