Metropolitan Lines Issue 2 - Brunel University
Metropolitan Lines Issue 2 - Brunel University
Metropolitan Lines Issue 2 - Brunel University
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Summer 2008<br />
FICTION<br />
POSTGRADUATES<br />
Ben Hart 3 World Gone Wrong<br />
Carolyn Skelton 8 Parting Gift<br />
Jo Hurst 10 Hodge<br />
Johanna Yacoub 12 Magilligan<br />
Kate Simants 21 Canal<br />
Perry Bhandal 24 Chicken Jack<br />
Ali Sheikholeslami 35 Paradise, Etc.<br />
FACULTY<br />
William Leahy 38 Emotional Spaceman<br />
John West 42 December 1945...<br />
UNDERGRADUATES<br />
Laura Brown 43 A Lesson Learned<br />
Maria Papacosta 53 Piano<br />
POETRY<br />
UNDERGRADUATES<br />
Marc Spencer 11 Pantoum - The Prophet<br />
Kerry Williams 13 Decadence in the Bathroom<br />
13 Been There, Done That<br />
Emanuele Libertini 8 Pure Research<br />
Mark Woollard 27 The Snail<br />
Jean-David Beyers 29 Thirteen Ways of Looking<br />
at Scissors<br />
32 Filth<br />
Maria Ridley 39 Weeping Woman<br />
45 CC’s<br />
Kerry Williams 48 Paranoia<br />
Shane Jinadu 15 Scarf Me Up<br />
15 Johnny<br />
Marc Spencer 11 Haiku<br />
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postgraduate fiction<br />
<strong>Metropolitan</strong> <strong>Lines</strong><br />
Summer 2008<br />
Editors:<br />
David Fulton<br />
Robert Stamper<br />
Subediting, Layout and Formatting:<br />
Samuel Taradash<br />
<strong>Metropolitan</strong> <strong>Lines</strong> is the literary<br />
magazine of <strong>Brunel</strong> <strong>University</strong>’s School<br />
of Arts. It exists to showcase the<br />
creative writing, prose and poetry of<br />
students, faculty and staff connected to<br />
the School of Arts at <strong>Brunel</strong> <strong>University</strong>.<br />
Questions, comments or submissions<br />
are welcome, and should be sent to<br />
david.fulton@brunel.ac.uk<br />
Any submissions should be sent as<br />
attachments to e-mail in the form of<br />
.doc or rtf files. Please, check your<br />
spelling and grammar before sending.<br />
The copyrights of all works within are held by their<br />
respective authors. All photographs by Samuel<br />
Taradash, except for page 42, which was was<br />
first published anonymously in the Soviet Journal<br />
Ogonyok, and is currently in the public domain.<br />
<strong>Metropolitan</strong> <strong>Lines</strong> Summer 2008<br />
Contents<br />
Editorial Staff