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		<title>SCREAMING WITHIN THE CORPUSCLE OF THE WORD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:35:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jay Passer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bent to the shape of the storm
The beaten umbrella surrenders
Once shelter for minds of a particularly crystalline hue and flavor
And so a sublime city rises
From the destruction of our selves times a thousand
For there is nothing but the end of the road to diagnose
Either a house landed there a splintered shambles
Or a seed mimicking cosmological [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SEND OUT THE DOGS</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:51:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michael Keenaghan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doing a stretch inside would be every copper&#8217;s nightmare, but at times like this I was seriously tempted. I saw myself putting a Browning 9mm handgun to the bastard&#8217;s head and pulling the trigger. Maybe the job was getting to me. Or maybe I just didn&#8217;t like watching proud, gloating child sex offenders walk free.
 
Up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>When We Were Alone</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steve Finbow</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1113</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The knock on the door comes at just after midnight. Hour of the rat. I hadn’t had chance to dream. Snore still low and soupy. Cars going by the window paint fingerprints on the ceiling. My book rests on my chest, the pillows behind me already ruckled and damp from night sweats. The blankets and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bobby</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:35:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jason F. McDaniel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bobby poked at the dirt with a stick while the rest of the kids played kickball in the street.  Two parked cars and pieces of cardboard were bases.  They’d asked him to play but he just wanted to watch from the porch.
 
When the Cadillac turned down their street it was timeout.  The windows were tinted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>VK2 CXR</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Nov 2010 08:19:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brad Evans</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1097</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[As he had promised, Tim cycled over to his grandmother&#8217;s that Saturday morning to help her clean out his grandfather&#8217;s belongings. He remembered the funeral a fortnight before. The deliberate, dignified pose &#8211; still and silent after 74 years. He didn&#8217;t feel sad seeing him there, apart from the fact that he never really knew [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Last Angel  ^_^</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 09:33:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Giacomo Lee</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1089</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I laugh way too much.
It&#8217;s 2 o&#8217;clock in the morning as I stand arms crossed, eyes bewitched in the light as the stage show begins, the all night darkness of dancing to electronic beats now giving way to the revelation of a Korean girl in a Viking helmet and boob tube miming to Pussycat Dolls. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW ABOUT ME</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/things-you-should-know-about-me/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:33:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Wendy Thornton</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1062</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Jessica leaves the bar at midnight, proud of herself for not closing the place down.  She’s so drunk she can barely walk.  Knows to put one face, no wait, one foot, in front of the other, pace, pace, pace. Keep that rhythm going.  Home home home.  Don’t look up.  Don’t listen to the guys hollering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Bird Which is Flightless Must Have Found its Perfect Home</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/the-bird-which-is-flightless-must-have-found-its-perfect-home/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Jul 2010 07:23:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stewart Wright</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Featured]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1058</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[People who stabbed other people’s thumbs with shopping trolleys but did not apologise for doing so reminded Jackson that he was better than most people. If he thought he had his flaws, then at least he knew he would have the respect and courtesy to apologise for such an offence.
 
As it was, the lady who [...]]]></description>
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		<title>hearing voices</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/hearing-voices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jun 2010 07:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Si Philbrook</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1045</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[i was in the park when michael jackson told me not to bet on west ham staying up next year. odd, &#8216;cos with blackpool a shoe-in for relegation and avram grant being no mug i thought the hammers stood a good chance. still, i didn&#8217;t want to argue with the king of pop.
 
i was in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HOMESTEAD PARK</title>
		<link>http://the-beat.co.uk/homestead-park/</link>
		<comments>http://the-beat.co.uk/homestead-park/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 May 2010 12:09:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jake David</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Short Story]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://the-beat.co.uk/?p=1022</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Adults keep themselves young; standing on guard-rails outside the local school, waves of rubber motors cough up &#38; down the corridor-sidewalks, looking for places to stall &#38; catch a number well-spent, toasted at the tips with hints of pasts on-groveling prison&#8217;s ghosts dancing. Hunched-over children ache from their backpack, &#38; dear-old Mothers with sore spines [...]]]></description>
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