2TRUEFRIENDS

2TRUEFRIENDS

By Yusuf Martin

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Norfolk caravanning

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Bombay writing

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White wine drinking

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Cool breath smoking

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Roger Mc Gough

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Desperate Housewives

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Phone SMS

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Net Facebook

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Equidistant

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Forever close

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Smart living

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Ever laughing

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Warm giving

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Girlish smiling

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Trusting children

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Generous spirits

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Truefriends

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love

© 2009 Yusuf Martin

Old Hippy, former bookbinder repairer and restorer, dustman, road sweeper, factory worker, mental hospital porter, graphic designer, digital artist, social worker, guest curator at one of London’s most prestigious museums, now exclusively writes short stories and essays from his country home overlooking lakes in the South East Asian countryside.

Yusuf Martin was born in London but lived mostly in East Anglian, England, briefly in India and has finally retired and settled in rural Malaysia, amidst the water buffalo and civets.

He has written several short stories published in collections in Malaysia including Silverfish New Writing 5 (2006); Silverfish New Writing 7 (2008); Urban Odysseys, due shortly from MPH; and an essay for New Malaysian Essays 2, due next year by Mata Hari.

Yusuf is currently putting the finishing touches to a book of short stories about kampung life in Malaysia (Kampung Tales) , writing more fantasy stories about a bomoh (shaman) called Melvyn, magic and ghosts (Melvyn the Bomoh) and a novel based upon his social work experiences (The Unsocial Worker).

Yusuf's sites:

http://mondaymelvyn.blogspot.com/

http://fatmankampung.blogspot.com/

http://correspondences-martin.blogspot.com/