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                        <title>in armful&#8217;s way</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/in-armfuls-way/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 19 Nov 2024 04:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Looked up from my crouching position in the gutter to see this luscious young woman who works in my local deli. Uh, I said, I&#8217;m just taking some footage of this water rippling down the stones&#8230; look how beautiful it is! I rescued these from the bins at work, she replied, holding out her armful [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Looked up from my crouching position in the gutter to see this luscious young woman who works in my local deli. Uh, I said, I&#8217;m just taking some footage of this water rippling down the stones&#8230; look how beautiful it is! I rescued these from the bins at work, she replied, holding out her armful [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>crutchpapa</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/crutchpapa/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 10:36:59 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Writing this morning in a cafe I glanced up and saw a young woman coming in on crutches, she was slightly built and small and following at a painful distance the bigger, older man who might have been her father or, perhaps, her lover. He forged ahead and sat down, he was already reading the [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Writing this morning in a cafe I glanced up and saw a young woman coming in on crutches, she was slightly built and small and following at a painful distance the bigger, older man who might have been her father or, perhaps, her lover. He forged ahead and sat down, he was already reading the [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>sharing the Herb</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/sharing-the-herb/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2024 02:11:38 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Herbie Hancock came to play Brisbane, it was bona fide. He and the band really loved it each other. When he came onstage, spontaneously people in the audience stood up, one by one, until pretty soon we were all standing. We wanted to acknowledge his effort and grace, the effortless grace and hard work. He [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Herbie Hancock came to play Brisbane, it was bona fide. He and the band really loved it each other. When he came onstage, spontaneously people in the audience stood up, one by one, until pretty soon we were all standing. We wanted to acknowledge his effort and grace, the effortless grace and hard work. He [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>without spilling a thing</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/without-spilling-a-thing/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:14:25 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[This beautiful waiter was so caring and funny, he stood for five minutes as a very young guest chose his pizza, then I saw him across the room carrying a fully-laden table with quivering wine glasses, all without spilling a thing. He had flourish and verve but was not show-offy. Afterwards I bailed him up [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[This beautiful waiter was so caring and funny, he stood for five minutes as a very young guest chose his pizza, then I saw him across the room carrying a fully-laden table with quivering wine glasses, all without spilling a thing. He had flourish and verve but was not show-offy. Afterwards I bailed him up [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>worldburn</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/worldburn/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2024 05:56:19 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Today in a cafe two small incidents seemed to me to illustrate the forms of self-involvement that are more common to women, and to men. A man walked in and ordered a coffee at the counter. He wanted a latte, he wanted it skinny. It was takeaway and he went over to a table in [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Today in a cafe two small incidents seemed to me to illustrate the forms of self-involvement that are more common to women, and to men. A man walked in and ordered a coffee at the counter. He wanted a latte, he wanted it skinny. It was takeaway and he went over to a table in [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>shriveled bulb of god</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/shriveled-bulb-of-god/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:33:55 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[My stomach feels like a shrivelled bulb after two martinis, no dinner. Whoever invented alcohol is my god: right now, my god. The last time I had one of those (a martini, a god) was in New York, it was summer then, I came out of the studio where we had been working on the [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[My stomach feels like a shrivelled bulb after two martinis, no dinner. Whoever invented alcohol is my god: right now, my god. The last time I had one of those (a martini, a god) was in New York, it was summer then, I came out of the studio where we had been working on the [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>gulp it</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/gulp-it/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 11:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator> a man at a bar loved music</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Last night I went out for jazz and at the bar a man nibbling on the rim of his beer said thoughtfully, You are doing such a great job tonight. I said, Thanks! Then: Great job at what? Airily he said, Oh — just being yourself. When we all left he was standing at the [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Last night I went out for jazz and at the bar a man nibbling on the rim of his beer said thoughtfully, You are doing such a great job tonight. I said, Thanks! Then: Great job at what? Airily he said, Oh — just being yourself. When we all left he was standing at the [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>mexicocoa</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/mexicocoa/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 05 Jan 2024 12:36:27 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>antstagram</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was at my friend&#8217;s place after a thunderstorm and she had a little curving highway of ants running up over her wall, so tiny they looked like caterpillar&#8217;s eyelashes, and I said look! at these teensy ants so busily there: my friend goes, ugh they are always in my kitchen and I can&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday I was at my friend&#8217;s place after a thunderstorm and she had a little curving highway of ants running up over her wall, so tiny they looked like caterpillar&#8217;s eyelashes, and I said look! at these teensy ants so busily there: my friend goes, ugh they are always in my kitchen and I can&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>cane toddler</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/cane-toddler/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 29 Dec 2023 15:31:18 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>how cane toads invade</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I was lying on my bed reading in the stifling heat today and a cane toad went hopping past my door. I found him in the hallway looking inscrutably lumpy, there followed a prolonged episode in which I tried and failed to persuade him out of the house using squirts of water, squeamish jabs with [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I was lying on my bed reading in the stifling heat today and a cane toad went hopping past my door. I found him in the hallway looking inscrutably lumpy, there followed a prolonged episode in which I tried and failed to persuade him out of the house using squirts of water, squeamish jabs with [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>long-legged rock god</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/long-legged-rock-god/</link>
                        <pubDate>Thu, 30 Nov 2023 14:45:02 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[At rehearsal with a Ghanaian band for whom it is imperative to have two different drummers side by side. There are three brass horn players and I have counted four different patterns of stenciled colour on the walls. The room is filled with people speaking Ga and Twi and pidgin and the carpet is striped. [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[At rehearsal with a Ghanaian band for whom it is imperative to have two different drummers side by side. There are three brass horn players and I have counted four different patterns of stenciled colour on the walls. The room is filled with people speaking Ga and Twi and pidgin and the carpet is striped. [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>no to the no</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/no-to-the-no/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 14 Oct 2023 10:18:25 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>the stupid no</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Imagine that. Imagine claiming a whole vast and fast continent was empty, naming it Terra Nullius. The land of nothing. Imagine thinking you could fill it up with people you had no use for, people who had stolen, who had committed crimes. Imagine emptying your prison ships squalling on the Thames into big boats and [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Imagine that. Imagine claiming a whole vast and fast continent was empty, naming it Terra Nullius. The land of nothing. Imagine thinking you could fill it up with people you had no use for, people who had stolen, who had committed crimes. Imagine emptying your prison ships squalling on the Thames into big boats and [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>disembowelled</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/disembowelled/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:41:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>cancer fruits</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[For weeks after the diagnosis I was still having episodes of shock as deep as flashbacks, every single day. Every day at some point I went into a dazzled fugue of confusion and horror, while the same words whirled around me like three birds. I have cancer. Then the welter. Cancer? What? What do you [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[For weeks after the diagnosis I was still having episodes of shock as deep as flashbacks, every single day. Every day at some point I went into a dazzled fugue of confusion and horror, while the same words whirled around me like three birds. I have cancer. Then the welter. Cancer? What? What do you [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>a man of mouse</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/a-man-of-mouse/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 04 Sep 2023 04:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>man who refuse to be men</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[In a cafe where I write, the staff are terrifically grumpy. One sometimes meets me with a finger propped under her chin, tipping her head: Is it almond milk? Soy? I say, It’s the honey that’s misleading you, by association, and she’ll say, mansplanatorily, “No, no… I don’t associate you with honey.” Today a large [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[In a cafe where I write, the staff are terrifically grumpy. One sometimes meets me with a finger propped under her chin, tipping her head: Is it almond milk? Soy? I say, It’s the honey that’s misleading you, by association, and she’ll say, mansplanatorily, “No, no… I don’t associate you with honey.” Today a large [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>neither warmth nor depth</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/neither-warmth-nor-depth/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2023 22:47:39 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I woke up strapped to the bed by six different apparatus. The last thing I remember is the surgeon greeting me at the swing doors, ‘Welcome to Theatre,” and I said, “Oh! How gracious,’ then, “I’m scared.” Of the leashes pegging me out like a goatskin my favourite is the pair of disco moon boots [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I woke up strapped to the bed by six different apparatus. The last thing I remember is the surgeon greeting me at the swing doors, ‘Welcome to Theatre,” and I said, “Oh! How gracious,’ then, “I’m scared.” Of the leashes pegging me out like a goatskin my favourite is the pair of disco moon boots [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>wait what</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/wait-what/</link>
                        <pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2023 23:46:03 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[When I got there the doctor said, &#8220;You know when we call you in at seven in the morning it&#8217;s not good.&#8221; She had called me in at 7.15am on Friday to give this news. I have cancer. She used words like &#8216;chemo&#8217; and &#8216;metastasize&#8217;. She emphasised that these are words I may not need [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[When I got there the doctor said, &#8220;You know when we call you in at seven in the morning it&#8217;s not good.&#8221; She had called me in at 7.15am on Friday to give this news. I have cancer. She used words like &#8216;chemo&#8217; and &#8216;metastasize&#8217;. She emphasised that these are words I may not need [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>moon made of ice cream</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/moon-made-of-ice-cream/</link>
                        <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jul 2023 11:06:43 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[I showed up at the supermarket checkout at closing time with a tub of ice cream. She said, &#8220;How are we this evening,&#8221; and I said, &#8220;Well, I can&#8217;t speak for you, but I&#8217;m fine!&#8221; I gave her such a big smile she took a blink and stepped backwards. But she was game, we&#8217;re human, [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[I showed up at the supermarket checkout at closing time with a tub of ice cream. She said, &#8220;How are we this evening,&#8221; and I said, &#8220;Well, I can&#8217;t speak for you, but I&#8217;m fine!&#8221; I gave her such a big smile she took a blink and stepped backwards. But she was game, we&#8217;re human, [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>the men who hate women</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/the-men-who-hate-women/</link>
                        <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jul 2023 03:17:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator></dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Hi Callum! Good morning I&#8217;d like to ask your advice as I don&#8217;t know now what to do with my free trial. Can we suspend it? Can I apply it to a different training group? I attended two sessions at the riverside park with Chris. Was super looking forward to it and excited to commit [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Hi Callum! Good morning I&#8217;d like to ask your advice as I don&#8217;t know now what to do with my free trial. Can we suspend it? Can I apply it to a different training group? I attended two sessions at the riverside park with Chris. Was super looking forward to it and excited to commit [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>sopa, so good</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/sopa-so-good/</link>
                        <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2023 13:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>how to reinvent a stovetop roast</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Hello, Department of Pumpkin Soup? I&#8217;ve just reinvented the form and I thought you ought to know. What? Oh, ginger, smoked paprika, cumin, cinnamon&#8230; Cinnamon. Yes. And some apples. Hard green apples, but I baked them in the oven first, alongside the pumpkin and sweet potato. Well, it&#8217;s winter now. Huh? Oh, that&#8217;s funny. Well [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[&#8216;Hello, Department of Pumpkin Soup? I&#8217;ve just reinvented the form and I thought you ought to know. What? Oh, ginger, smoked paprika, cumin, cinnamon&#8230; Cinnamon. Yes. And some apples. Hard green apples, but I baked them in the oven first, alongside the pumpkin and sweet potato. Well, it&#8217;s winter now. Huh? Oh, that&#8217;s funny. Well [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>papered in</title>
                        <link>https://houseoflovers.com/literature/papered-in/</link>
                        <pubDate>Wed, 03 May 2023 23:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
                        <dc:creator>reading the papers for signs</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Ten years ago the EU was still called the EC. When it was first mooted that the UK may leave, a Berliner acquaintance was shocked to learn that I had just heard. &#8220;You don&#8217;t read newspapers?&#8221; &#8216;Oh, well. I like cartoons. The weekend magazine sometimes, in cafes. I read the arts section.&#8217; &#8220;But how do [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[Ten years ago the EU was still called the EC. When it was first mooted that the UK may leave, a Berliner acquaintance was shocked to learn that I had just heard. &#8220;You don&#8217;t read newspapers?&#8221; &#8216;Oh, well. I like cartoons. The weekend magazine sometimes, in cafes. I read the arts section.&#8217; &#8220;But how do [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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                        <title>you&#8217;re not Kyle</title>
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                        <pubDate>Mon, 27 Mar 2023 23:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[My phone rang just now with a number I don&#8217;t recognise. A grandmotherly voice said, &#8220;Kyle! Congratulations! I&#8217;m so excited for you.&#8221; I said, Sorry, who is this? &#8220;You&#8217;re not Kyle!&#8221; &#8220;No!&#8221; I said, &#8220;But I&#8217;m excited for him too.&#8221; We laughed like we knew each other. &#8220;We&#8217;re all so happy for him,&#8221; she said. [&#8230;]]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[My phone rang just now with a number I don&#8217;t recognise. A grandmotherly voice said, &#8220;Kyle! Congratulations! I&#8217;m so excited for you.&#8221; I said, Sorry, who is this? &#8220;You&#8217;re not Kyle!&#8221; &#8220;No!&#8221; I said, &#8220;But I&#8217;m excited for him too.&#8221; We laughed like we knew each other. &#8220;We&#8217;re all so happy for him,&#8221; she said. [&#8230;]]]></content:encoded>

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