Words on a bench

Found this written on a bench by the canal, makes you want to know more about the story and what happened next.

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Desert

Desert. That’s what she said to me, we were just talking about I don’t know what and all of a sudden she says “desert”. We hadn’t been talking about deserts yet that’s what she said. I must have looked confused, she said she looked at me while we were talking and the word “desert” just [...]

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He’s lost control again

As a moody teenager nothing gives you more pleasure than depressing music that you can dance to. Fortunately I grew up in the eighties so there was a whole wealth of possibilities to choose from. I was an undercover goth, revelling in the misery of Sisters of Mercy, Bauhaus and Fields of the Nephlim but [...]

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Sex, Drugs and Rock’n’Roll

There’s a new study that reveals that music makes you happy and that listening to music that you enjoy will release goog stuff into your system giving you that natural high that sex, drugs and chocolate provide.
Think of the best gig or concert you were ever at, remember the buzz, the excitement, the energy [...]

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Do you like scary movies?

Think of a movie, the baddie breaks into your house, you run to the kitchen, desperate for a weapon, pulling drawers open, scrabbling through the cutlery and implements until there it is, the biggest knife in the house…
They always go for the knife, the sharp and pointy solution to the problem. Let’s consider this, the [...]

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A day

Lethargy
Warm bed and a long way to work
Twenty swans on the Tolka
Warm pastels behind the Pigeon House
A few hours at the coal-face
A long drawn-out beautiful sunset, starting off with streaks across the sky and slowly degenerating into a ball of ruby redness eaten by the surrounding inky-blue
Warm bed
Sleepiness

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Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to…

Consider the scenario:
In order to be able to work as an IT contractor I (Party A) set up my own company where I am the only employee of my company.
My company (Party B) then sells my services and skills to other companies for a fixed daily rate.
Currently I am working through a recruitment agent (Party [...]

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In memoriam

Take a stroll up our main boulevard, past the GPO, past Jim Larkin and his raised arms, across the Luas lines and around The Liberator and his flock of angels and onto the bridge that spans Anna Livia.
There once was a clock under the waters of Anna Livia and unlike most clocks it ran backwards, [...]

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Innocents Abroad

It’s common to find books where the main character is thrown into an alien environment and the book explores their successes and failures in adapting to and integrating into their new environment. There are some writers who turn the concept on its head and write about visitors to an environment that is perfectly normal [...]

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Blooks

One interesting phenomenon arising from the spread of blogs is the increasing number of blogs that are being published as books. The question is whether this will continue or if there now are too many blogs out there for publishers to find the ones that could be considered publishable?
And is there a market for sales [...]

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