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April 7th, 2007

The next Post Of The Week will be announced on Sunday evening.
Please note that nominations for next week cannot be accepted until then.

1. An Unreliable Witness - While You Sleep

“All I can do. I shall sit here, barely moving, barely breathing, holding your right hand gently between my cool palms, feeling the delicate lines of skin that form above and below the joints of each of your fingers.”

2. Currybetdotnet - The ten things most likely to be on The Daily Express front page

“In a bid to try and find out what it is that The Express actually does, I’ve studied the front pages from the last three months, and analysed the stories that appeared on them. Not just the main front page headline itself, but also the other stories and features that go to make up the newspaper’s shop window as well.”

3. Edvard Moonke Chavs R Us

“From the perspective of a newly-arrived foreign observer, Britain must seem an impenetrable and baffling array of unspoken rules and traditions. From a distance, the archetypal British male still wears a tweed jacket and sips his tea with his pinkie firmly erect.”

4. From Fuck UP to Fab - Funny Anniversary

“On April Fools’ Day 9 years ago, an official-looking envelope landed on my doormat.
By some prescient fluke, a County Court in the Home Counties had seen it fit to grant me a decree absolute that day.
It was a fitting end to a union that had been one big joke from the start..”

5. Rachel from North London - Felicity Jane Lowde of Oxford has been found guilty of harassment

“Since I started posting on the internet, like many bloggers and internet users, I’ve been trolled, flamed and had nasty comments directed at me. I’ve ignored them, let them bounce off, and I do not take action against such people. It’s unfortunately seen as part of life on the internet these days. But one person went too far, and either could not, or would not stop. I can now finally tell you all the story. And having told it, I would like to draw a line, and never think of it again.”

6. Restaurant Gal - Note to the Angels: Tell My Dad I Send Love

“I always knew I would see him again, knew I would feel his arms wrap me in a hug one more time. I just didn’t know how long and difficult and wondrous the journey would be to find him.

The last time my father saw me was in California. I was a tow-headed youngster holding the hand of my mother and baby sister as we climbed the steps to the airplane that would whisk us east”

7. The QC Report - Embraceable me

“I get it. It’s Vogue. They live on ads and advertisers want us wanting stuff, buying stuff. But this was an article about physical well-being in an issue seemingly focused on bodily diversity and it still came down to “You’re not enough, you will never be enough. Buy more stuff”.”

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