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		<title>Memento, Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 03:30:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 &#8211; Part 2 I woke up a couple of nights later with a dry mouth, a light head and a knot in the pit of my stomach. If I’d been having a bad dream, I couldn’t remember it now that I was awake and I really had no desire to try to recall [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Memento, Part 1</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Dec 2011 22:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Part 1 &#8211; Part 2 You never really reach a point where you realise you’re over someone. There’s no light bulb illumination, no eureka moment; they just cease to be a part of your everyday thoughts and that’s that. If you were to notice that you’d stopped thinking about them, technically you’d be thinking about [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Compound</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 22:07:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tara woke up a little after sunrise that morning as she had every morning that week. She tied her hair back in a neat little bun, pulled on a pair of jeans and a cosy sweater, laced up her boots and was out the door of her home within ten minutes, rubbing the sleep from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duo: Home</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Nov 2011 12:18:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Night &#8211; Second Night &#8211; Third Night &#8211; Fourth Night &#8211; Fifth Night &#8211; Sixth Night &#8211; Home You stand on the balcony of your third-floor apartment, one hand holding a cigarette and the other bracing you against the railing. It’s twilight, so the sky above you is dense and heady, the clouds coloured [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duo: Sixth Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Oct 2011 08:35:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Night &#8211; Second Night &#8211; Third Night &#8211; Fourth Night &#8211; Fifth Night - Sixth Night &#8211; Home Same city, same venue, last night of the tour. You’re headlining this time—if it can be called ‘headlining’ when the club is the size of your mom’s living room and the crowd are probably only here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duo: Fifth Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jul 2011 11:22:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Night &#8211; Second Night &#8211; Third Night &#8211; Fourth Night &#8211; Fifth Night &#8211; Sixth Night &#8211; Home Just two more shows and you’re done, that’s what you keep telling yourself. Two more shows and you can go home, although you’re filled with dread over the prospect of what things will be like when [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Princess</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[· This story is dedicated to a friend. She knows who she is · She sits curled up on the windowsill of the study every evening, looking out wistfully from time to time through the panes of glass. She waits. In her hands is a book, the same book every time. She reads it in her head [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duo: Fourth Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 11:17:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Night &#8211; Second Night &#8211; Third Night &#8211; Fourth Night &#8211; Fifth Night &#8211; Sixth Night &#8211; Home When he doesn’t mention what happened the night before, you figure he’s going to leave it alone. As the morning passes without event, you’re left wondering if maybe things have returned to normal, or if you’re [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Duo: Third Night</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Feb 2011 01:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[First Night &#8211; Second Night &#8211; Third Night &#8211; Fourth Night &#8211; Fifth Night &#8211; Sixth Night &#8211; Home You have the next day off, thankfully, and you spend it apart. At some point that night he comes in, flicks on all the lights, bumps into every piece of furniture in the room and finally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Three Things</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:33:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rowan</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There are three things you might be surprised to learn about me. The first is that I’m terrified of heights, so much so that I once begged my manager to let me come into work on a Saturday so I wouldn’t have to go rock-climbing with my friends. The second is that when I was [...]]]></description>
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