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Robin Laffan

Updated: Wed, 19 Jul 2017 10:49 pm

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Biography

I had some success in publishing in journals back in the 2000s, but fell out of writing when my daughter was born. Bad move, I know. You can see them on my web site above. I do need to update it a bit. Now, I want to get back onto it.

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Beautiful Again You were pale when I found you asleep in the emptied bath as if too tired to have noticed the water running out. You were beautiful again with just a hint of the smile that first drew me to you, and the only tell-tale sign was the crimson swirl in the last of the water to drain away. Damp Soil When they found him shining in the burning African sun they laughed and danced around him touching his wet-glass skin wondering at how cold he was and ran to fetch their parents screaming in delight. But when the adults arrived having put away their tools and tethered the goats and secured the doors closing darkness within, all they found was damp red soil where the snowman had not waited.

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