Monthly Archives: September 2017

Flicks

Posted on September 22, 2017 by Louis Kasatkin

Stumbling along wet evening streets glancing at the jigsaw faces from years ago torn and flapping, trying to recall who they were their names erased by years of exile from the beams of projectors piercing the spiralling smoke with their … Continue reading →

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Bruges Ennui

Posted on September 14, 2017 by Louis Kasatkin

Lost in the grey of an evening in Bruges; On streets I no longer recognise searching for those bars whose names I no longer remember, where I was enveloped in a pervasive aroma of wheat beer that hovered aloft like … Continue reading →

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Existential Interlude

Posted on September 11, 2017 by Louis Kasatkin

The pain Antonio Cabral felt for the loss of his loved ones could not be negated by a latent dependency on opiates and liquor; Amid the dank squalor and vicissitudes of an ascetic refuge in the doldrums of a nameless … Continue reading →

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