chances are





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chances are.

chances are

chances taken.
              
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money made here, leaves here




money made here, leaves here.

steve coel



short film: [ person, with stick, not old, walks away from camera. 

voice over..]


you accept new rules when you step through this hole in the fence.

new laws.





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things will get broken here. been this way for a while. too long. 

what is left is unwanted.


corridors are still marked on the ground. 

lino and nails for rooms with no walls or doors. 


walk across acres and acres of empty promises. 


step carelessly through memories.


even unseen spray can imaginations flake from neglect.



money once made here has now left here.


for good.


REPEAT.


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walking notes.

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day time hide aways.


in back spaces, unseen from roads and rear view mirrors.

between rubble and broken glass, shaking hands, shaken.

tracksuits worn to hide shape, weapons, sex.


no names. 


trade is invisible, unknown.




Arfordir Byw
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An 11.59 Publication




UnEven Street

steve coel



UnEven Street

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UnEven Street

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UnEven Street

steve coel

Sample illustrations for Tin Collector [ 2016 ]



Tin Collector [ 2016 ] is becoming a focused, feverish 

collection of flash fiction and assorted images.


The ideas, and the experiments that drive it, are 

multilayered and as a whole they form a soundscape that 

reflects the urban environments they present.


This is a text that doesn't stay still.


I like that.


steve coel


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Cycling For Happiness




Cycling for Happiness

steve coel




In all fairness she'd expected the water to be pretty cold. 
After all, it was November and the summer hadn't been 
anything like she had hoped and she knew well enough that 
what her family really needed was to get some sun on their 
bones. 
But there you go, what you gonna do about it?


So, even being short of money and that, she'd taken them 
all away for the weekend for a treat, the break she 
reckoned would do them all a bit of good.


Houses were mostly boarded up it being out of season but 
she had managed to book them into a side street B and B. 
Thing is the rides on the front were all boarded up for 
the winter too. 
As a result the kids were generally pretty miserable, 
but they say that a change of scenery can put a lot of 
other things in the shade. 
So they say.


Like i've heard that if a car drives on to your foot 
adrenalin gives you the strength to pick the car up so 
as how you can move your foot to safety. 
So I've heard.


Still, no-one's really sure where she got the strength to go 
into the water with the kids like that.


steve coel

Tin Collector [ 2015 ]

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Footnote:

A version / draft of this microflashfiction story appears in the 
April 2015 UK Edition of flashfloodjournal.