Zack Wilson




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Zack Wilson was born in Skegness in the 1970’s, the son of Scottish father and a mother from Sheffield. After a life spent in various places in the North and Midlands of England, he is now settled in Sheffield, where he works for the City Council in a very minor capacity indeed. His work has previously featured in various places in print and online, including, amongst others, The Quiet Feather, Unquiet Desperation, Zygote In My Coffee and Winamop.com. Major influences are Alan Sillitoe, Patrick O’Brian and Brendan Behan, though he feels he owes something of a spiritual debt to Beat America too. Away from writing, he tries to enjoy football, music and politics. He is currently working on a novel length cycle of stories set in a specific Sheffield location. Further details can be found here and here.


ZACK'S TOP 5 SONGS WITH NO HOPE AT ALL LEFT IN THEM


TINDERSTICKS - ‘Dying Slowly’

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JOY DIVISION - ‘Atmosphere’

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ALASDAIR ROBERTS - ‘Lord Ronald’

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LEE HAZELWOOD - ‘Dirtnap Stories’

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RIDE - ‘Decay’


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SHEFFIELD FRAGMENTS

by
Zack Wilson





FRIENDSHIP


-Shut tha face nob ead, Ah’m thinking.

-Thinkin? Thee? Abaht fuckin wot?

-Tha doesn’t need to knaw.

-Well, what’s tha doing ere den? This is no fun, dahn t’pub wi a fuckin depressive.

-Ah’m not a fuckin depressive! Just got things on me mind.

-What mind?

-Aa fuckin aa.

-Well, that’s it fo me. Ah’m gooin, Ah’m not fuckin sittin ere any longer wi thee.

-Aw, dorn’t be a cunt!

-Ah’m fuckin not!

-Orreight, Orreight. Fancy a peint?

-Aa, goo on then.


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POLITICS


Ah’m fuckin sick on all this shit. It’s on t’telly evry fuckin day at t’minute. All t’fuckin Septics gooin on, whittling abaht t’Twin fuckin Towers. They neva fuckin learn. Ah mean, ma parents ad to move ouse twelve times during t’war cause o’t’fuckin Krauts. Mosta them cunts in them buildings were criminals anyway, robbin workin folk.

Ah fuckin ate Muslims too, mind. Cept Rafeeq, but e as a peint nah and then.


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SEXUAL POLITICS


Winter fuckin Olympics! Why tha fuck is that on t’fuckin telly? Ah mean, speed skating. Ow many speed skaters does tha knaw round ere?

Mind you, look at t’ass on er! Ah do like a fit bird wot looks after ersen.


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SPORT


Orreight? Ow’d Wednesday do? Ow many?! Ere, Stan, t’Pigs got done foar nowt! At Hillsborough! WAAaaay! Sometimes, tha knaws, Ah think Ah fuckin ate them moar than Ah love Uneited.


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WEATHER


Rainin! Fuckin rainin agean. Does mean we can’t do any work on that roof though. Evry cloud…



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OPTIMISN


Well, mate. Avin sin er, and sin thee, Ah dawn’t rate tha chances much.


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