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Buenos Aires waterfront skyline — nomadic poem by David Moran
Poetry · Buenos Aires
nomadic | poem
Written on a plane while flying away from love and loss. “The final act of a born run away, moving through the world at good speed.”
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a man with no purpose is a dangerous man — short fiction by David MoranFiction · UK · New
a man with no purpose is a dangerous man
Johnny lived where I wouldn’t have gone if he didn’t. A university town the world had finished with.
Read → starving — poem by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry · New
starving
A poem about being alone. Lovers, twins, poets, stray dogs.
Read → women who want a man — poem by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry · New
women who want a man
A poem about the power of women, desire, and the distance between people.
Read → View from a moving bus over a coastal town — jigsaw pieces poem by David MoranPoetry · New
jigsaw pieces | poem
New poem. Recently published.
Read → City street at night — flash fiction from Berlin by David MoranFiction · Berlin
train in vain | short fiction
A Berlin train at night. A stranger gets off. Everyone the narrator never spoke to.
Read → Urban rooftop silhouette with dramatic sky — fiction set in England by David MoranFiction · England
growing pains | fiction
Two brothers, a working-class town, and the fathers who drank the money away.
Read → Scottish Highland road — poem from Glasgow by David MoranPoetry · Glasgow
wanting anything from the shops?
A poem set in Glasgow. Capturing the working class tone and lives of locals.
Read → Harbour reflected in still water — poem by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry · International
indiscretions | poem
An internationally published poem about the memory of growing up.
Read → European courtyard looking up — essay on Paris and James Baldwin by David MoranEssay · James Baldwin
an expat in paris
On Baldwin’s Giovanni’s Room, expatriate life, and what it means to write honestly about desire and exile.
Read → Hampi temple, India — literary manifesto by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsEssay · Manifesto
an honest pursuit
A literary writer’s manifesto. What the work is for and why it matters to keep writing badly before writing well.
Read → Poem about being young and reckless — punch drunk at twenty two by David MoranPoetry
punch drunk at twenty two | poem
A poem about youth, impulse, and the beautiful wreckage of being twenty-two.
Read → Love poem — a love absurd by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry
a love absurd | poem
A love poem. Absurd in the best way — tender, strange, and completely itself.
Read → Seoul Han River at dusk — best of Tumbleweed WordsCollection
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viral | poetry
poem about speed of life
Read → a love supreme — poem by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry
a love supreme | poem
a poem about a twin brother who showed up when it mattered
Read → things do change — poem by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry · New
things do change | poem
A poem about getting on with life. Puberty, purity, adult land.
Read → drift remembrance — poem by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsPoetry
drift remembrance | poem
A poem about going to the ocean. Gulls, seaweed, a message in a bottle.
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“We were always falling like stars between clouds that formed a final breath. The other knew the other too well.”

David — ‘nomadic’ — Tumbleweed Words

Six illustrated faces representing flash fiction themes: Trains, Grief, Exile, Solitude, Memory, Strangers — Tumbleweed Words Fiction by Theme — Find Your Story
Theme
Trains
What happens to a person between departure and arrival. The carriage as confessional, the platform as stage.
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Strangers
The people you see once and remember forever. What we project onto faces we will never know.
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Memory
What the body keeps when the mind lets go. The unreliable narrator that lives inside all of us.
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“The final act of a born run away, moving through the world at good speed.”

David — ‘nomadic’ — Tumbleweed Words

Fiction by City — Go Somewhere
Buenos Aires, Argentina — flash fiction by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsCity
Buenos Aires
Bodegas at midnight, cemetery walks at dawn. The city where you go to disappear and end up finding everything
Read more → Istanbul, Turkey — flash fiction by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsCity
Istanbul
Two continents, one city. Mosques and market smoke, the call to prayer over water, a place that holds centuries at once
Read more → Prague, Czech Republic — flash fiction by David Moran, Tumbleweed WordsCity
Prague
Kafka’s corridors and cobblestone fog. A city that looks like a novel and reads like a dream you half remember
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