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Children

Children are like honoured guests, in our home – scent of innocence acting out as chickadees with their hopping and flitting, seeking new corners to...

For Sale

For Sale This house is starvin’ for a new family and a husband who has the smarts about children growing tall and strong no matter what’s in the wind...

The Containment Zone

The district here used to be great. A thriving metropolis in the heart of the country. The buildings were of bright vibrant colors. They stood tall...

Mad Smithers and the Government's All Under Control Plan : Episode 9

Smithers 9 (At the boarding school in Derbyshire) ROSEMARY : I thought you were dead, Pigs’. PIGS’ : No, I staged my own death. ROSEMARY : How? PIGS...

Mad Smithers and the Government's All Under Control Plan : Episode 8

Episode 8 (At the parlour) LOOSE LUCY : You know how big Smithers is now he has a cure for his problem. TIGER LILY : Oh yes, you needn’t tell me...

“One up!” “Two down!”

Two rural teenagers waiting on a bench aware of naivety in urban fashion-sense: ‘One up’ ‘two down!’ ‘one down’ ‘oh,three up, there!' – with clothes of passers-by, their own compare! …
Gold cherry

A refugee

Your life laid bare The sudden intimacy of violence Blood in the air Fully exposed. They place their faith Your lips, your tits, your cunt You squat...

The Glass Lizard (Children's Poem)

The glass lizard glitters as it slithers through the grass. The glass lizard glistens like a thing of living glass. But it shatters for this reptile...

Be Careful What You Wish For!

We arrived at Torquay about 3.30pm on Saturday, 9th August 1975, having travelled about 255 miles south from Warrington, and it was a boiling hot day...

myriads

unseen through the lush forest leaf shafts bright light shadows dark shimmers weaving silent breezes through the woods between the trees peaceful...

Alpine Adventure- part VIII

Sat. July 23, 2016- Villach, Austria It was muggy and in the 70’s (F) as we left Villach. We were driving west, along the scenic Drau River valley...
Cherry

Fresh Beginnings

Dear Diary...There were times in my life where I never thought I'd settle down, constantly searching for new challenges, wanting to experience as...

BOATS ARE SAFER IN THE HARBOR

we're a pair of sea bound vessels we're inclined to dare the tide we are bored by shallow waters through the foaming waves, we glide . cruising...

Hillary Clinton and Mentally Challenged Children

Let me tell you about something that happened many years ago when Bill Clinton was Governor of Arkansas. Some mentally challenged children were...

The ancient game of Triangle- 3 person verbal gambling game/The game of Fractions- Fraction based lottery game

The ancient game of Triangle: This game has been known since the stone age and is probably one of the oldest and simplest gambling games ever...
Cherry

I Can See Around Corners

You. You. And You. You. What do you think makes us tick? What trick? What magic makes us turn? Yearn. What fills us up, what hollows us out? Gives...

The Census - 5 - The President

April 5 th, Dear Clara My prize for most interesting people of the day goes to Barend and Nettie Kroeze. He is 70, born in Holland, Michigan and the...

End of the line

The book on speaking Italian was of no interest to him, despite looking at it with apparent interest. He was in fact, surreptitiously looking through...

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