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47% Agree: Romney’s Maths Stink

Before you leap up in fury, let me start by saying I am not going to mention taxes, or entitlements, or anything like that....

The Spectrum of a Woman

The semantics of colour Is known to many lovers Watch pink stick fill lips And how that black dress Elides your hips Brush back platinum blonde To hang gold from Flesh...

Why Predistribution Makes Miliband Prediculous

Please let me make a prediction about 'predistribution', a solution to Britain's economic and social woes, as explained by Labour Leader Ed Miliband this...

What Clint Should Have Said

The problem with being partisan is that it forces you to be wrong some of the time. There is no need to be...

Licence to Bill

Governments license people to do and own dangerous things, so they can keep a track on who is putting everyone else at risk. ...

Britain’s Golden Alphabet

In praise of the gold medal winners from Team GB A is for Ainslie, who sailed to gold in the Finn. For the greatest of sailors,...

Back Into Us

As sunlight draws away And years collide with memory I remember that look you had in eye And the colours we painted the world The capers we would...

Interval with Valerie

Previously in the saga of Preston Dirges' office existence, Gordon and Tina were in trouble with their boss. Meanwhile, Valerie returns to Preston's...

A Very Unspecial Relationship

Face facts, all you supporters of America's Republican Party. Your chosen Presidential nominee, Mitt Romney, is a bit of a weirdo. Not...

Interperspect

Inhale. Invert. Revert. A place outside of this. Where there is quiet. Somewhere solitary for an hour, or a week, or...

G & T and 1 IM 2 Many

In the last episode of Preston Dirges' saga, Preston and Valerie were split up during lunch. Meanwhile, Gordon and Tina are late for...

How Obamacare Unified Rhetorical Hypocrisy

You have to give Mitt Romney credit for one thing: he is not a hater. Perhaps that is why he sometimes seems an...
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This website showcases content created by Eric Priezkalns, who also uses the pen name Ray Blank when writing science fiction. It includes stories, essays, poems, short films and audio recordings.

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