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Twitter Trolls are Coming to Town
Remember when a Troll was what every child wanted for Christmas? Well now: You better watch out You better take care Prepare for a flout I'm telling...
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Leggings – and the Disembodied Voice....
“Shipment to Beckham then!”
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A whistling; a wassailing (Yuletide rhyme/song)
A whistling; a wassailing the robin comes to me; a whistling; a wassailing within his willow tree. When winter weathers dark and drear this little...
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Report to the Empiricists Part 3/5
REPORT TO THE EMPIRICISTS, CONTINUED Three members of the crew were chosen for the surface party, myself, the ship contact, and a catalog expert who...
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Report to the Empiricists Part 2/5
REPORT TO THE EMPIRICISTS, CONTINUED There had never been a case in our collective travels where the first station encountered was not the first to...
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Report to the Empiricists (2008) Part 1/5
A short while ago we approached a spiral galaxy, zones of which are currently under your jurisdiction. What follows, in light of your valuable...
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Alcoholic mum
The monotone pip signalling the end of school blurted out of the speakers throughout the building, and that meant everyone was about to rush out of...
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Round Robins
Dear Friends Well it's that time again. I've been so looking forward to my annual letter! It's been such a busy year so I haven't been able to keep...
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The Spirit Of Christmas (Seasonal Song)
1. Long ago there was a boy who searched for the Spirit of Christmas; he looked within the land of Toys but the Spirit wasn't there. 2. Though he...
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Waiting on the Man
A little schmaltz for you today. “He was supposed to be here an hour ago, Janice! Where the hell is he? You booked this damn thing!” Janice Olsen had...
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These Games We Play with the Universe
“He's beautiful.” I lean past Tasha to get a better look. And she's right, he is. He's unstintingly gorgeous. I put him in his very early twenties,...
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Hitchiker.
“I see things” The Bearded Man said all of a sudden piercing the silence of the car journey so far. What a strange thing to say, so I just screwed up...
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Grimms4
Pizza Face ducked his head down when he took a drag on a fag and hid it behind his leg when he wasn’t smoking. He’d stolen a dout, almost a full...
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Sherlock Holmes and the lost tiger (2)
For over an hour Holmes prowled back and forth, now inside the cage and now outside, inspecting the bath of mud outside the cage where the crowd was...
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Spider Sestina
I see a web a spider's weaving and, hanging on that silken web are, bound up, little creatures, living from whom the lifelight slowly ebbs but their...
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The Essence of the Rose.
Tiers...perfumed tincture of its central perfection, a mystic beauty. The maidens dance morn and noon, faeries jive the pale-faced moon. Rosa shines...
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The Incapability Argument - Another ontological argument and the best one yet I think
Premise 1: What must be is Premise 2: If we can imagine something it is either real or not real Premise 3: If something is incapable of being the...
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The Thirteenth Floor
I was sick in bed with the flu when the police came. Something about a missing woman, routine enquiries they said, with rain running off their hats...
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How I learnt to stop worrying and love Facebook.
Earlier this year there was a news story about Salisbury cathedral having to move a statue because dozy tourists glued to their smartphones kept...
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Mom Thought I Would Be A Girl
Mom thought I would be a girl back in 1971. She was surprised to learn that I was a son. She was surprised but she wasn't disappointed in the least...
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