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MEET THE LITTLE MARTIAN
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LXXI. Yolks and Cokes and Stupid, Stupid Hearts!
The Little Martian spills coffee down his favourite pair of baggy Irish jeans, soaks his tattered Birkenstocks with a too-sweet...
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LXX. Cheeto
“If you shit where you eat, you eat shit.” Mutters the Little Martian with a rumbly glower. “Haan?” “This shit never works out! Love-...
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LXIX. Corporate Frost
The Little Martian feels a little disillusioned. A little disconnected. And a little cold in his little Bermuda shorts.Goose pimples rise...
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LXVIII. Don Draper
The Little Martian knocks back an espresso, takes a deep drag from his candy fag, and waggles his hands around. “You're a public hazard,...
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LXVII. Glutzon Sparkles
The Little Martian gives out a little hrphmp of frustration and scratches his head as he eyes his cracked Samsung. “You should really buy...
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LXVI. Paths in Prague
Praha, 2008 The Little Martian stumbles out onto a rainy cobblestoned path in Prague at midnight. The wind whistles and whooshes, zipping...
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LXV. Murky Misted Hilltops
The Little Martian tears out tiny tufts of hair from his red hot scalp. “I don't know what the duck I am supposed to next!” He exclaims,...
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LXIV. Breakfast Is The Most Important Meal Of The Day
The Little Martian screeches like a baby banshee, his voice reverberates through the valley and all the tittering bulbuls in the bushes,...
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LXIII. Fetch
“But we cannot sit and stare at our wounds forever “ A dog on the internet tells me . An orange ball blazes vibrant! Voracious and ready...
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LXII. Monday Purples and Yellows!
You make your last Monday Coffee and listen to Ed Sheeran croon, soft , melodic and emo. You are melodramatically posed in purple. “Why...
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LXI. Home ?
The little Martian sobs fitfully now. Unabashed and all consuming. “Can I please go home? Please. Please can I go home now?" he sobs...
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LX. Horizon
The little Martian sits now, a little lost. We both need another cup of burnt coffee just to feel real in this dead, odd place. It...
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LIX. Puffy Huff
The little martian looks over at you . He waggles his toes, jiggles the jangling beads on his wrist and lets out a puffy huff “Could that...
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LVIII. Harry Styles
Ive been trying to do it right Been living a lonely life The Little Martian croons; soft, melodic and melodramatic to himself, while his...
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LVII. Paper
The little Martian meets pencil on the paper for the first time with an odd, anxious delight. The delicate curling of charcoal upon an...
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LV. Finals
LV. Finals The Little Martian interrupts my officious typing by peeping his head through the cafe window and grinning at me I am startled...
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LV. Monday Pinks
The Little Martian takes a seat by the window, looks out at the pretty auburn tree shedding its leaves in the early Monday morning breeze...
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LIV. Riotous Colour
“I don’t think I've ever felt quite so conscious of my colour before,” I tell the little Martian. From my bright pink nail polish to my...
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LIII. Train
The little Martian slides into the chair next to me, “it's back. “ I look up at him with a start “What is? “ “the anxiety.” "Huh?” “I can...
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LII. Wispy
"Don’t go. “ I tell the little Martian as he wraps up his biscuit cake wrapper and drains his last sip of coffee. “ha? “ "Don’t go yet,...
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