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What are my thoughts on cooking?

I think about cooking in a few ways. Obviously cooking is food preparation. But there is one recipe that I have cooked in the last couple of months that sticks in my brain. My favourite meals are ones where I go all out and it pays off. Close to the surface of my memories is the crab risotto that I made. Someone in my family was having a bad time. Without warning, a memory of a crab risotto…

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Write about how you drive (or why you don't)

I drive. I guess that the answer to the second part. I rode a motorbike for many years and now I drive every morning. I look at my bike, out of rego and I think about the fact that I used to commute on it. In the middle of winter. Australian winters are not cold, really. But it did give me the experience of frozen hands. I think for the first time understood that sometimes mind does come over…

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Doctors Office

Rueben couldn’t believe that the doctor had spent so much time out there. He was starting to suspect that he’d have to look at this view for another twenty minutes. He’d already clocked that the outside was wonderful brilliant blue overlooking the Sydney Harbour. He had just identified the Centrepoint Tower and the ANZAC bridge when the doctor had rolled in again. The day before had been…

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Drown

The way that I fell into the job was a premonition of how it would end up. Someone knew someone, and suddenly all of a sudden, I had a job. It was, unknown to me, from the safety of unemployment thrust into a workplace that would’ve advertised a number of its red flags like its commitment to treating it’s employees like a family. Since I didn’t have the opportunity to see even that I was soon…

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Heritage

A party at this particular house follows the natural shape of parties that have their guests drawn from distinct parts of a person’s life. Up a set of stairs in the new builds that littered Parramatta. It was a cold imposing building all edges and ridges and mimicked a sense that new housing was all like this. This side of the river, there had been a razing of single-family homes into these new…

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Famous Artwork

I have a wall of postcards of art that I love, I don’t have enough money to own versions of it. They reflect my forays into museums, and what has captured my attention. Some of them are famous pieces, some of them are more locally known famous Australian artists. In the original version of this piece, I was interested in writing a story about Salvador Dali’s In rembrance of time where the floppy…

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Recipe: Sydney

Ingredients Botany BayIndigenous peopleInstitutions like Universities and Schools and HospitalsDifferent parts of SydneyHousingPetty CriminalsSoldier paid in RumGovernment headsColonisation and imperialismHousingLand banking Method 1. Arrive at a unknown place with complex communities of people already living. Look at these people continue to set down, decide that the place is too marshy and…

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Silly games

A silly game devised Aaron plot armour Giving a fictional character the chance to be a jock. Broadening appeal beyond needs….a chosen one Fans took this and created something magical in the muggle world. Getting people out of the house Many unused to it. It’s now more than its origin Escaping the infamy of JK Quiddich is the deadname of Quadball

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Samuel Butler's Education

Education: Samuel Butler The generations of children Educated due to Samuel Butler, impressive His first profession as a clergyman, then vicar and archdeacon Morphed into his final form of headmaster at Shrewsbury Bringing his god-given authority towards the children in his care And enacting a system that forced the authority of older children to younger children A hierarchy in schooling…

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Sustained Project - Romance novel

I read a book a little while ago and I was frustrated. In my pursuit to be a better writer, I’ve taken advice to read more books. The secondary part of this advice has been to read more ‘terrible’ books. The book that I’m going to talk about fits into the second category. Most of the terrible books I analysed and dropped. But this one was one that stayed with me. There are mid romance novels and…

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Searching for answers

As the sun sets in the east Nor cloudless sky produces rain Get thee to a library or apothecary, depending on the inclination Enlighten me to its contents Light up all windows of knowledge, in books or scrolls Investigate strange phenomena Could it be the end of times or the beginning of the next Answer this question to me? Does it matter?

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Telephone

Gabi got off the phone. She had spoken to her mum, and this was something that she used to discuss the issues in her life and the people around her. This particular day had been discussing the way that Jessica had dealt with her dating. While Gabi understood in a general sense the fact that men were sometimes strange and she’d had some interactions to this effect, she had never delved too deeply…

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Abracadabra

Watching the roof With the spinning circles Use the beat of the music To keep distance from my darkest thoughts Think of me in the darkness Use the artificial night of this basement Frenzied movements of all dancers tonight To get us moving from these anxious devilish thoughts The lady on the front is swirling Mesmerising and beguiling A new age priestess to Usher in this holy…

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Spice

I love spice, and that is not an automatic thing. I have taken this writing prompt to discuss my love of spice because I have not had any thing that spoke to me in a fictional space. I had a thought about using a genre picker, one of the ways through creative blocks. But I did not really think that was useful when it initially slapped into sci fi fantasy and all I could think about that related…

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Mistakes/slipups

There were higher expectations for this date. Higher than normal. Having had the recommendation from a mutual friend who had thought that there was a connection between the two was daunting and raised the stakes somewhat. Of course, everyone would stay friends even if this didn’t come off. She waved at him, because she now saw him across the room. This was different in substance and style than…

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Drama

Courted by drama on earth Charles V the Junior, tag name Magnation, was a feeling that he enjoyed. Appearing on broadcasts and having everyone know his name was something that he wanted and craved. He had abandoned his family fortune for those who were better suited to subdue and populate on earth; mining the regulations for prosperity. The end of the life cycle was approaching, with his capital…

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Careful

A teacup is fragile and should be treated with a measure of delicacy Careful when you walk around with it Making sure that it looked after while using it and then in the cleaning. The quilt that my mum made for me, the rips carefully sewn up Folded in a way that doesn’t encourage new ones Lying on my bed, a reminder of her love for me. Carefulness is not a natural inclination Driven…