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Twenty Seven

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By Thomas J Bevan
| The Commonplace Newsletter
For those of you who prefer to read on paper rather than a screen, here’s an easily printable pdf file of this story. Twenty Seven 83.3KB ∙ PDF file No sun, no moon, no stars, no clouds. No crisscross of contrails or swarms of startled city birds. Just a white nothingness above, a vast absence like unused sketch paper up beyond the near colourless brick townhouses looming overhead. It was the most vague and unreadable sky he had ever craned his neck to contemplate. The world made no sense.
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The Collected Commonplace Newsletters

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By Thomas J Bevan
| The Commonplace Newsletter
Between 2020 and 2025 I published 119 essays which totalled over 200,000 words. They covered everything from cloudwatching to birdsong, from the death of lunch to the end of the extremely online era, from pylons and foxes to insomnia and discouragement and pretentiousness and pretty much everything else in between.
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Two Arrows

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By Thomas J Bevan
| The Commonplace Newsletter
‘What you need,’ The Fat Man said, gesturing with a twirl of his yolk-dripping knife ‘What you need is to learn how to enjoy yourself, get a little pleasure into your life. Get a girl. You got a girl, right?’ Across the table Smith gave a near imperceptible shoulder shrug, the gesture saying ‘maybe I do, maybe I don’t.’ ‘I mean Lord knows I pay you enough, right? You can’t be hurting for money. Go out and spend a little, go for a drink, meet someone.
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