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The website of writer and poet Daniel Bennett

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Things We Lost In The Fire

Posted on October 6, 2019 by Daniel Bennett in Fiction

'In the darkness, in among the barely visible vegetation, the fireflies shone. I hate when people call them lightning bugs; firefly is a beautiful word. Once, I caught a bunch of them in an empty mayonnaise jar, and I realised how ugly they really are, like cockroaches with wings. But they've been blessed with the … Continue reading Things We Lost In The Fire →

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Bones

Posted on September 26, 2019October 16, 2019 by Daniel Bennett in Dogs, Fiction

‘We all walk over bones in this city, it’s just a question of making holes deep enough to reach the buried dead. I have to dig, with a shovel, with my hands, like a dog. Dogs always find bones; they always know where they’re hidden, where they’ve been abandoned, forgotten.’ ‘No Flesh Over Our Bones,’ … Continue reading Bones →

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