Author: Greg
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Boots for escaping malaise
I’ve been experiencing malaise for the past couple of days – melancholy but without the sadness. The balance of my life has tipped toward more input and less output. This is never the way I want this scale to tip and yet here I am, mired in unproductive worry. Into this malaise entered this image […]
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Notes From A Day At The Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL)
I had the great pleasure of attending the Sydney Sixers vs. Perth Scorchers Women’s Big Bash League (WBBL) match at the Sydney Cricket Ground (SCG) on Monday. Any day at the cricket is a good day, but seeing the Sixers in action means I get to see Alyssa Healy and Ellyse Perry – two of […]
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Having Read His Future In The Clouds
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) From this great height it seemed as though the sun would never set. He smiled. Having read his future in the clouds, he could look forward to the eternal sunshine ahead.
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The Broadcast Violence Was Thusly Amplified
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) He was watching the news. Something bad was happening in Syria. She was in the other room getting undressed. She thought about what she had just read on her phone. Something bad was happening in Syria. She used the master control to turn off […]
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Why We Should Take Each Other Seriously
Do you want to be taken seriously? I would have a difficult time imagining that you don’t. The desire to be taken seriously is the fuel that powers strange personality traits that you’ve likely observed in yourself and others, including: Your Facebook friends who meticulously curate their online presence in an effort to appear as […]
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An Undergraduate Refilled Their Glasses
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) Neither of them moved or spoke. An undergraduate refilled their glasses. The horn of an unseen car honked succinctly, providing an auditory punctuation that neither of them could muster.
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Short Story: Modifications Politely Declined
My latest short story Modifications Politely Declined has been featured on The Regal Fox. Click here to give it a read. He wouldn’t have noticed her if she hadn’t been smoking a cigarette. That she was doing so while seated directly under a sign that read ‘Thank You For Not Smoking’ made him feel strangely […]
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Heartbreak Dulled His Senses
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) She was sitting on the upper level of the train. He couldn’t see her face from where he was standing but he could see that her hair was auburn colored. It was enough. He was in love. It was easy and pleasurable to imagine […]
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Watching The Trains Come And Go
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) He could go out to the staircase and have a smoke without his boyfriend giving him shit about ‘bad life choices’ and him ‘being smarter than this’. Those moments could instead be spent sitting on the outdoor stairs watching the trains come and go […]
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What You Want Me To Be
View this post on Instagram A post shared by Greg (@jimmygoodwords) I cannot be what you want me to be, And so I’ll go alone.