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Posts from the ‘Works’ Category

Terry T-Shirt

And when the long awaited set finally did arrive the only person in the right position to take it was Terry T-shirt, every bloody time. He had this uncanny knack of being able to time the arrival of the next set of waves, not only that but until his private alarm bell rang he’d be inside pinching all those waves as well, and all alone.

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the corporation and those who dwell in it.

She leaves a faint trail of Chypre fragrance throughout the upper floors and its teak paneled offices and it was her you saw sunbaking naked at Kings Beach four years ago.

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serial killers and surfboat crews

There’s going to be blood and misery out there, pain and humiliation; but after it’s all over some kind of kinship can develop between the sides.'

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harold budd and the cocteau twins

Years ago, when asked about the quality of the current range ambient music and what made his any different budd remarked that in his case he liked to have a little evil in the composition, something a little dark.

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weather report

in the day

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reuben and daphne

The wetsuit zipper strap didn’t survive Reuben’s sharp tug and it came away like a piece of cotton –

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the river kiosk

He sat with us uninvited. He drank. His smile flickered on and off. This lonely old alcoholic.

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the shadow at tallows

The first thing we did wrong was get out of the car.

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the deputy

Today a couple not known to him was standing on the crowded footpath outside the liquor shop. They were drinking beer and talking loudly, angrily. Alec spat and laughed silently to himself as he examined the short red velvet dress worn by the woman.

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marrying a surfer – category 1

They have a masochistic disposition to the wearing of sharp pointed metal trinkets on, or in, their ears, eyes, eyelids, tongues, cheeks, noses, fingers, navels, nipples, toes and genitals. Buttocks for some unfathomable reason have remained free from such mutilation.

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a summer story

Right now Doug decides to pull back the dressing on his ulcer for a looksee, and the swollen wound swallows half his hand before some babe wearing a black lace hanky strolls past, all silky wobble and perve. We observe the moment with a tranquil and hormonal grief as Ken retires into the dank shadows for another piss. Five an hour is the usual but who’s counting.

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marrying a surfer – category 2

Aged anywhere between twenty-five and forty, members of this category write their choice of surfing destinations for the coming weekend in their work diary only after they have completed extensive Internet research involving reading synoptic charts

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brent asato cutting back

This is Brent Asato, he has kindly submitted a snap of himself for criticism and review.

Brent is cutting back.

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Confessions of a Surf Blog Commenter – by mike mantalos

It has been less than three years since I first discovered the medium of the surf blog. As another chapter ends, I find myself questioning how I have become so caught up in the anonymous momentum. Answers become bigger questions, and bigger questions find simpler answers.

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flynn novak cutting back

The first question we must ask of Mr Novak is why is he sitting down on the job? That's a fair bit of effort he has expended in getting up there and this is no time to bundy off.

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marrying a surfer – category 3

Dementia is an affliction that can strike at any age, however, and as demonstration of the potency of its early onset all one needs do is ask oneself to accurately describe the details of any four waves of a ten-wave session immediately after the session has concluded.

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my city

The two drunks finally embraced and the Nissan silently backed over the skull of Mr Steven McCaskey, killing him instantly. Leaving three grandchildren and an abused daughter without a word or sign of his now eternal wait on a harsh judgement.

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jay alders – ‘ right past the light ‘

Mr Jay Alders does not muck around with surfers' feet.

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the adventures of rick oahu ~ chapter 3 ~ a killing in macau

Their wounds suggest that they had both had their sternums ripped open by bare claw

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sunny garcia cutting back

This is the Hawaiian way. Mr Garcia obviously had something else on his mind when he grabbed the big board this day, however that has not stopped him from a wholesome attack on this baby wave.

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