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The fire problem
I was woken early one morning by a hammering on my back door. I quickly changed out of my nightclothes into something more suitable, checked my hair...
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New Years Resolutions
1. My goal for 2016 was to lose just 10 pounds … only 25 to go ... 2. Ate salad for dinner … Mostly croutons & tomatoes ... Really just one big,...
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UNSOCIAL SERVICES
'You can take your Mother back home now She seems to have come through it'. 'She cannot walk, so tell me how You reckon we could do it'. 'Not my...
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Embarrassment!
Do you know the story of Thomas and the mine? the roof broke, he fell in, because he’d disobeyed the sign. His pride thought he knew better … – triumphantly he went right past, and thought it quite a laugh.
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Better Days
It’s damp. So damp our windows cry every morning. Three of us, arms and legs intertwined . An octopus of flesh, seeping yellow on a matress that once...
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Sleepless
My toes curl As your fingers against My back, make Tracks like braces, metal Teeth, smile as though Caught in a trap. A fox screams, that Blood...
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The Moonmaid
A moonmaid lived upon the moon; the loveliest moonmaid by far. She sang a lovely lunar tune and combed her long hair with a star. But then one day an...
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Joy and Sorrow Chapter three (Sandcastles)
Celeste felt the hair on the back of her neck prickle, when she heard Karen's shrieky voice fill the beach air. Her sister - in - law had one of...
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Joy and Sorrow Chapter 2 (The Heat is on)
Celeste shifted her weight uncomfortably. She was sitting in a stuffy, college auditorium, half heartedly watching her husband's debate for governor...
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Joy and Sorrow St. Patrick's Day
Celeste Richards,and her husband, Senator Joel Harrington, were attending a wedding that the New Orleans Picayune hailed as "the event of the year."...
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Prisoner
Sallow skin ravaged by hunger gripped by callous sinful hands, raven approaches with dismal reminder of this desolate waste, escape blew me across...
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Oh, Leader, Where Art Thou?
The hawking of rotted cabbage for president sours my innards! be there a mind among you who frolic in green fields of fresh produce? Nay, you say?...
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University Challenge
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SIGN LANGUAGE
when one is born in silence with no language to enhance they pantomime in splendid rhyme their fingers in a dance . when people do the hula it is...
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Mr Morpheus 5 - Mr Morpheus and The Nightmayor
Mr Morpheus looked down from the top of the Sears tower at the panic ensuing far below, people in large screaming crowds running from a giant,...
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The desert
See then, the hard Misshapen land, worn Away to sand, It is Dead and rots, it Shrinks and shrivels. Pick, pick, pick away, a vulture Feeds its...
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Explaining God
Explaining God Genesis unfolding In the beginning Once upon a time Tick-tock Can’t go back Revelation’s final stop. God in a book. That’s where to...
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Watching Kettles
Watching Kettles Time has become a fascination for me; nay an obsession even. As I seem to hurtle through my autumn years it seems to be accelerating...
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Canal
I don’t think I have ever told you properly about that guy we spoke to in Amsterdam. It was the first evening, I think, and we were walking along the...
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Weird Speech in a Parking Lot
Evan sat in his car outside the restaurant where he worked. His shift had ended half an hour earlier, but he couldn’t drive away. He had to wait...
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