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The Ward
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Poems from Inside. Poems and short oddities originating from my time as a guest of the Acute Psychiatric Unit.
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John Mack
John Mack is a writer of dark fantasy fiction and poetry which readers have described as "like opening a vein". He lives a self-contained life in Brisbane, Australia.
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