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Eighteen floors of concrete stretch upward, so high they appear tapered. The sky looks dead and grey inkstain clouds drift over the sun. ...crackle, hiss, whisper of static. Dark sky shot through with silvered specks, shifting and restless... I look at my feet and try to cut the story from my mind. The floor is cracked, and damp moss grows up through the stained paving. ...vines creep over the spotted concrete, the thorns running striations over the collossal block... I let it get in again, let it crack away from the bonds I'd locked on it. I try to bury the s

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Hat-Trick Installment TwelveThe air outside is smoky, oppressive. I feel like the city’s bearing down on me as its heart throbs and gouges at the ground. The beams from the huge spotlights hung from the ceiling of this dome become viscous, moving in intricate Brownian patterns in the smoke. McAfee is silent, and I’m glad. Somehow his genial nature would only serve to unsettle me further in such a strange atmosphere. We stare at the massive arms of the pit machines as they sink down and rise up, bringing with them suitably huge loads of blackened rock. “C’mon. I’ll show you around,” McAfee’s voice has lost all its kindness and cheer. He’s almost muttering, nothing Hat-Trick Installment Twelve
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Hat-Trick Installment Eleven“Fog?” McAfee laughs roughly again and shakes his huge head. “That’s what you think that is? That ain’t fog, boy. That’s run-off.” “Run-off? What is it?” “Run-off is fuel. It keeps this city alive, lad.” McAfee shakes his head again. “It’s dangerous, though, if you get too close. Have to be careful if ye work near the heart.” “Why? I mean, what does it do?” McAfee suddenly looks somber, and his massive grin is subdued now. “It takes people. It gets into their minds and takes their thoughts and twists them.” “Is that what happened to the man? The man with the hat, the man who was attacking me?” “No. An innoc Hat-Trick Installment Eleven
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Hat-Trick Installment TenA chair creaks, and as my eyes open I see a colossal man standing over me with a dampened cloth in one hand and a bowl in the other. He’s only got three teeth, and I can tell this because he’s also got one of the largest grins I’ve ever seen. “Before ye ask, m’boy, the name’s McAfee and you’re in me hut.” McAfee grins again then walks over to a grubby sink in the corner of the little room. Whilst he clanks and hums and whistles over the tottering pile of washing up in the little basin, I peer groggily around the room. An array of broken and bent fishing rods line the walls and ceiling, their tangled lines forming an intricate net Hat-Trick Installment Ten
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Hat-Trick Installment NineWhy am I lying on my back? Why is there a statue stretching away from me, holding the huge golden stone ceiling on its shoulders? Why, for that matter, am I lying under a golden stone ceiling? Light is coming from somewhere, so I turn my head painfully and slowly to one side and see a midnight sunset – the deepest purple light throws the longest shadows ever cast across the chessboard floor. The statue casts a shadow so huge it blots out a strip of land that stretches to the horizon. Where am I? Who am I? When? Why? It hits me, suddenly, that I’m dreaming, and I stamp and cry. I feel a need to escape from this dream because Hat-Trick Installment Nine
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Sat Nov 19, 2005, 4:57 AM

Dark days in Oxford. Cold days.
Last night, as I walked tentatively over the frosted ground, I felt two things. Firstly, I realised how lucky I was to be able to look up and see an almost full moon glowing in a clear sky over such beautiful, wonderful buildings. Oxford's an amazing city, and I wish I was good at photography just so that I could capture it and remember it for whenever I'm away. I don't know how my brother has managed to slip into university life so nonchalantly when he has had to tear himself away from this city.
Secondly, I felt like my extremities were withering up and dying from the cold. Even though my fingers were ensconced in gloves and my toes in socks and shoes, all my digits felt like they were succumbing to what I imagine hypothermia must feel like. Luckily, I got home without losing any body parts, though I feel it was a close call.

It has just hit me that I left all my books at school and have an obscene amount of work to do this weekend.

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Interests: Not a lot. I get called a nihilist a lot. My only coherent interest is writing.
Favourite movie: Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, perhaps. Maybe Withnail and I. Too hard to decide.
Favourite band or musician: Right now, I'm digging the Decemberists and pre-famous Snow Patrol. I hate that question, by the way
Favourite genre of music: I don't care. So long as the music's good, the genre means nothing to me.
Favourite artist: Ed Ruscha
Favourite poet or writer: Bret Easton Ellis
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~psych0oO Apr 18, 2006, 4:35:25 PM

Ahoy there, Whales! 'Tis t3h Annazy.

Added you on the watch-y thing. XD

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~startmeup Mar 25, 2006, 12:38:30 AM

Hey Whales, it's Julz.
I stumbled upon your DA, and decided to watch you. Hope you enjoy yourself in Wales, by the way.

~absinthebride Mar 22, 2006, 12:18:58 PM

Thank you for the favorite.

~pinklacqueredskies Feb 10, 2006, 12:48:45 PM

Hallo you're rich's friend
I like your poems
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~athevolunteer Jan 16, 2006, 5:08:40 PM

Hey Whales I'm Ryan from TQW... I think I'll read you work ^_-

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