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Lorraine Mariner
B. 1974
Lorraine Mariner grew up in Upminster and attended Huddersfield University, where she read English, and University College London, where she read Library and Information Studies. She lives in London and works as an Assistant Librarian at the Poetry Library, Southbank…
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Toll booth attendant - Lorraine Mariner
It might look like the worst job on earth sitting in a booth on a motorway collecting money so a car can go over a bridge but the snatches of music you would hear as the windows roll down and…
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Yesterday evening I finished with my imaginary boyfriend. He knew what I was going to say before I said it which was top of my list of reasons why we should end it. My other reasons were as follows: he…
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Say I forgot how to love you, the way when I was eight I forgot how to swim? Could you steel yourself as my mother did when she enrolled me in lessons for the holiday, sat up in the stalls…
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Your repeated use of this phrase at the end of emails convinced me that we had a future until I noticed that BBC newsreaders and weather forecasters say it to sign themselves off secure in the knowledge that some percentage…
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When I was a child I worried that when I got my chance to love a beast I would not be up to the task. As he came in for the kiss I’d turn away or gag on the mane…
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And then there will be no more nonsense - Lorraine Mariner
And then there will be no more nonsense and you will tell her about that evening when you stopped in the dusk at the edge of the grass you had cut that afternoon and looked back to where you had…