My name is Tim Smith. I have 30 years experience in journalism and editing in magazines and books. I can work in traditional print media also digital and online with equal confidence, timeliness and budgetary common sense.
Talking to my aunt Juney on the phone earlier. She’s my favourite aunt.
She’s old. She’s had an interesting life. She’s done some bad things. She was worried about ghosts.
“Ghosts don’t exist, don’t fret, aunty J”
“Tim?”, she said.… Read the rest
The story so far: the eponymous character, Martin Lunsford, and his friend Mick Downs have been involved in a hit and run on their ways home from their social club in a small city in the south of … Read the rest
Sabine and I went to Berlin and to the spectacular Jewish Museum. Afterwards we drank coffee, smoked cigarettes and discussed what we had experienced.
Basically we had gone to the museum because we were in Berlin and also to … Read the rest
Fighting yourself while looking for work
Words are stuck in their tracks
No ability any longer other than to stumble in an out of rage
Rage and impotence slapping together, wet, rank and joyless
As the world goes by not … Read the rest
Everything’s going to be OK.
After a few years of pain.
For those of us who make it.
Everything will be Okay.
The only ones who matter
Are the ones who survive.
Common Sense.
Forget War Graves and Still … Read the rest
“It is what it is.”
Let me introduce you to Mike. Solid Mike. Michael doesn’t like to make a fuss. He doesn’t understand what all the fuss is about. Mike’s favourite phrase, a phrase he stands by, a phrase for … Read the rest
Packing toys and terrible things
Into thin black plastic bags.
Throwing them into the sea of bins
A lifetime moved on
Ready to be emptied on Tuesday.
Without her.
On to something else.
Something older.
The things that … Read the rest
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